L'aime Laine

04/04/2026

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Communiqué: Nous transitionnons officiellement vers une production de liste d'attente.
Suite à de grandes réflexions, nous avons choisi que la meilleure méthode pour honorer nos habiletés et vos attentes serait de prendre vos requêtes par l'entremise du site en vous procurant une position avec dépôt. (nous ne prenons plus de demandes par messenger et IG, merci!)
Cela soulage le nombre de tâches que nous avons à gérer et cela permet aussi à un plus grand nombre gens d'avoir des chances égales d'accéder à nos créations.

Pour résumer: À partir de dimanche le 5 avril à 17hrs (heure d'été de l'est), vous pouvez acheter votre 'billet' qui vous assigne à un groupe de production numéroté. Nous vous contactons lorsque nous sommes rendus à for groupe et vous faites faire les items que vous voulez. Une fois complétés on vous facture la somme incluant les frais d'envoi, moins le coût du billet.

Selon nos estimés nous pouvons offrir nos services à environ 25 groupes d'ici 2027.

Merci tant à toute la communauté pour votre support constant et votre compréhension pendant que notre entreprise familiale apprend en constance comment mieux vous servir.

Alexina et Yves-Antoine

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Announcement: We’re officially transitioning to Waitlist Production.
After careful consideration and testing multiple systems, we’ve decided the best way to honour our abilities and your expectations is to ‘officially’ take in requests through our site, with a downpayment. This alleviates the amount of tasks we manage and ensures everyone gets a fair chance to access our creations.
To keep it brief: Starting Sunday April 5th at 5pm EDT, you can purchase your waitlist ‘ticket’, which assigns you to a production batch #, we reach out to you when we’re ready for your group & you can request any item you wish for. You’re invoiced once the order is complete with shipping fees calculated and the waitlist amount subtracted.

By our estimates we can cover around 25 batches until 2027, give & take.

Phew! Don’t know why, but writing and posting this felt scary somehow. Thank you to everyone in the community for your constant support and your flexibility as we navigate being a business and learn how to be better for you all.

The pictures are to simply display a custom order that I’m proud to have designed and love dearly.

03/30/2026

Knit City Toronto you were a whirlwind of memorable adventures and meetings! So many new things happened: a new venue, first time teaching in Ontario, bringing our 3 children along for the ride, our car engine dying on us and many new friendly faces encountered. We were surrounded by amazing, talented vendors with generous hearts. Fiona and Amanda and their team of volunteers outdid themselves and kept showing up for everyone’s needs. I got to meet again sweet supporters and colleagues and for that I’m also infinitely grateful. Special thank you to who dedicated her Saturday at our booth helping with questions, fibre management,demonstrations and moral support, you were incredible! Tomorrow I’ll start a live at 3pm EDT and share stories of the weekend as well as present our creative plans for the times to come considering our urgent need for a new vehicle. You can ask questions, or share your own favourite moments of the weekend.

03/25/2026

These are coming to Toronto!
Our barrel support spindle gives a powerful rotation without sacrificing speed.

The lighting for this picture was so tricky; it reflected off the snow outside and kept overpowering the camera, but I finally caught the right angle and it feels like the annoyance was all worth it. I love how we can see the fine wood dust from the workshop coating the whorls.

03/25/2026

Knit City Toronto here we come! The whole family is ready to welcome you at booth 430 in front of the lounge area.
We have a beautiful collection of drop spindles, support spindles, spinning accessories, processing tools, clean fleece and Majacraft wheels for you to try out.

I’ll be posting in my stories various items we’re bringing as well as our usually quirky travel adventures. Fingers crossed the car survives the 10 hour ride this time (iykyk) !

10/02/2025

Phew, these days are busy! Full of information, of changes, of adaptations and emotions. I’m grateful for the full schedule as a distraction, and the obligations keep the mind from ruminating. To protect the heart and mind, every day a bit of spinning, a bit of reading (both paper and audio). This weekend is going to be a lovely social gathering vending at and by Monday, our family is going on our first ever plane trip…to Mexico! We were gifted with plane tickets and lodging and I intend to savour every moment.

The picture shows a few items we made, a season adequate spindle filled delicious fiber she prepared, some handspun yarn I’d love to find a project for.

spindlespinning

08/28/2025

Les finalistes de leur catégorie pour la mise à jour à venir. (le 30 août 10hrs)

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The final contestants in their category for the upcoming shop update. A big thank you to all IG story participants who help us in our decision making (leather or copper?!), it’s loads of fun and motivating for us here at the workshop.

07/29/2025

le 31 août prochain, je donne un cours d'une journée chez Mapi Créations !

On regarde toutes les facettes de filer un brin seul, mince/gros/lopi ou autre, la préparation de fibre, la torsion, comment le fixer etc.

C'est aussi une opportunité pour mieux vous comprendre dans vos tendances de filage, comprendre votre rouet et comment changer vos habitudes.

Procurez vos billets ici:
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I'm teaching in person next Sunday August 31st at Mapi Creations (in Quebec near Ontario border)

We'll look at all aspects of spinning a Finished Singles, whether thin or thick, lopi or otherwise, fiber preparation, twist, how to finish etc.

It's also an opportunity to understand your own spinning tendencies, your wheel, and how to change your habits.

Send a message to learn more

07/19/2025

I admit, I sometimes extensively ‘test’ the spindles made for our shop. To the point of making entire projects. I infuse each particle of wood with love, appreciation and memories, whisper gestures of confidence into the object, then send it your way trusting it has all it needs to pass on some of that connection to you.
This particular spindle gave me 36g of joy, and those 36g were from another handspinner, who sent little handcombed nuggets of love my way, fleece from a sheep name Rosie. It’s the knowing, the continuous and self-aware link that gives value to our material possessions.
My TdF days 16-17

07/13/2025

Cet écheveau m’a amené tant de joie et fierté - je l’adore!
De la joie de filer une nappe créée par quelqu’un de spécial pour moi, qui m’a toujours offert son support et sa compréhension. Paule de Urso est une personne si authentique qui s’efforce à suivre son chemin personnel et de maintenir une harmonie avec sa communauté - c’était un réel plaisir de concevoir un fil qui représentait selon moi la beauté qu’elle nous offre avec son art.

De la fierté parce que je me suis donnée le défi de faire un fil de taille DK, filé lissé, moyennement retordu. Ce n’est pas mon filage par réflex et c’était bien amusant d’y mettre la gymnastique nécessaire à manipuler un mélange composé de couches de laines longues, courtes, et de l’angora.
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This spin definitely brought me joy and pride - I love it dearly.
Joy for spinning a batt made by someone special to me, who’s always offered support and understanding. is such an authentic person, she’s always putting in the work to follow her path and stay in harmony with her community- It was a pleasure to aim on creating a yarn that represented the beauty she gives with her craft.

Pride because I challenged myself on aiming for a worsted spun DK weight yarn neither low or high twist. This isn’t my default and it was alot of fun going through the gymnastics of handling a layered-type blend of long wools, angora, short and soft wools.

The first and last picture show in natural lighting the subtle and soft interactions of colour and fibers.
The second picture shows me in my playful mood, my singles split evenly onto 2 toilet paper rolls, feeling like a kid (and wearing my Le Chateau clothes from 6th grade) and ready to ply.

TdF day 8 spin - completed a 2-ply skein of 296 yards, weighing 106g
Let’s go Stash Dashers!

07/08/2025

TdF Day 2 was a bittersweet completion of this ensemble.
I deeply enjoyed pairing ‘s beautiful Eye of Tiger batts with my spindles - I get such satisfaction and fun as spindles spin better the more glamoured with yarn they become.

The batts were chef’s kiss in the depth and interplay of golds, thank you SO much Emily!
The rightmost spindle is a beautiful TexasJeans spindle, the others are my designs, lovingly turned by my husband Yves-Antoine.

Let’s go Stash Dashers!