Every month I gather with a group of my Patrons on Zoom, and we chat and spin. Of course, we spend time exchanging info about our best fibers and tools to buy. Spinners never gather without talking about shopping.

As well as being amazing and clever spinners my Patrons are outstanding and smart shoppers. A special shout-out to Laura Linneman (one half of The Knitgirlls) who is a human database of knitting patterns that work well with handspun.

I will admit to buying something after every one of our gatherings. My favorite tool of late is this fantastic hairbrush cleaner to use for cleaning my woolen prep tools. Really anything sold as a hairbrush cleaner will work.

I like this one in particular becasue the handle is long; it keeps my knuckles away from the teeth on my carders and blending board. I also like that it has two different sized spreads and densities of cleaning teeth.

Let's talk about those teeth. I usually don't like to use metal near carding cloth. For example I don't reccomend using a paper clip to clean cards, it's easy to nick the carding cloth.

The wire that the cleaning rakes are made of is very fine and flexible. They don't have the density or umph to nick the rubber carding cloth, but are strong enough in a group to catch all of the stray fibers on your handcarders, blending board or drum carder.

It is so satisfying getting all of my carders, really clean.

Curious about my Patron Zoom Parties? All of the info is on my Patreon page.