Firstly, I am a mom and wife. My husband, also our IT Support here at Wool n' Spinning, and I have two children, who have made appearances on the show: James, 5, and Norah, 3.5.
My passion lies in the field of fibre arts and making. I love making yarn, talking and chatting about the process, and teaching handspinning. I also have come to love technology, video editing and writing. I've always kept a journal and written short stories but now I channel some of those words into essays, blog posts and content here! This has been a welcome surprise.
Wool n' Spinning started out as a way to talk about the topics I wanted to talk about and has slowly become about creating community, fellowship and learning opportunities. Most of us are seeking to become better versions of ourselves and it is a pleasure to share that journey with you.
The pleasure of making yarn by hand can not be underestimated! You don't need a spinning wheel to do it and I love my spindling equally.
With my Patreons' support, creating more teaching materials, hosting giveaway and increasingly the time length of the podcast will be attainable!
Patreon offers me the chance to be compensated for the value of the content I produce, while still covering pesky costs like downloads, domain names, software and hardware, and tools to demo with for you. It keeps the YouTube channel ad-free and generates an income for me to be able to be at home, creating for you.
Having a Patreon campaign means we can work towards more live streaming opportunities, as well as audio, travelling in the future to teach workshops and retreats, and many other opportunities we haven't even thought of yet!
Rachel Smith is creating fibre arts & teaching content.
196
patrons
$1,138
per monthRewards
The Support Circle
$1 or more per month ∙ 34 patrons
Thank you for joining the Wool n' Spinning community! I sincerely appreciate your support!
Includes
Includes
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Wool n' Spinning Radio
The Coffee Circle
$3 or more per month ∙ 25 patrons
For all Wool n' Spinning Patrons who pledge $3 or more, you each will be entered for the monthly draw which will be awarded to one Patreon subscriber each month!
Includes
Includes
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Monthly draw
The Spinning Circle
$5 or more per month ∙ 91 patrons
This reward gives you access to the Wool n' Spinning Slack Channel - we are a very chatty bunch! And of course, you will be entered for the monthly draw.
Includes
Includes
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Monthly draw
- SLACK Channel
The Inquisitor
$8 or more per month ∙ 6 patrons
For questions, suggestions to drive content and opportunity to ask more on our Patreon-only audio RSS feed: Wool n' Spinning Radio. This is a monthly audio podcast for Patreon subscribers!
Includes
Access to the SLACK channel, and of course, you will be entered for the monthly draw!
Includes
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Monthly draw
- SLACK Channel
The Co-Executive Producer
$10 or more per month ∙ 3 patrons
Want to support the show a little more? Even if for just a short time? I'll back you up when you call yourself a Co-Producer of Wool n' Spinning AND your name will be IN PRINT ON THE SHOW CREDITS for each month you maintain this level!
Includes
Includes
Access to the SLACK channel, and of course, you will be entered for the monthly draw!
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Monthly draw
- SLACK Channel with PRIVATE chat room
- Shout out in the weekly show credits!
The Thoughtful Spinner
$12 or more per month ∙ 14 patrons
With guest appearances from my dear friend, Katrina (craftyjaks), is a monthly essay written about a topic that one of us has been thinking about over the past couple of months. Subscribing to this level will earn your name IN PRINT in a SHOUT OUT in our book due to be released in 2017!
This level also gives you access to the Slack channel and the monthly draw.
Includes
This level also gives you access to the Slack channel and the monthly draw.
Includes
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Monthly draw
- Shout Out in print in my upcoming book
- Thoughtful Spinner PDF
The Enhanced EARLY Bird (How I Spin)
$20 or more per month ∙ 22 patrons
Enhanced spinners receive an extra video post each month (How I Spin), here on Patreon, and a PDF to accomany it with a certain yarn design I've made. It will show me actually spinning at the wheel. Comments and questions from these Patreons will be answered first to help enhance your spinning experiences as you try new things!
Includes
Includes
This reward tier marries The Thoughtful Spinner with our new Radio show: Receive Wool n' Spinning Radio ONE WEEK early! You will also receive The Thoughtful Spinner PDF each month.
Subscribing to this level will earn your name IN PRINT in a SHOUT OUT in our book due to be released in 2017!
This level also gives you access to the Slack channel and the monthly draw.
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Monthly draw
- Shout Out in print in my upcoming book
- Thoughtful Spinner PDF
- EARLY ACCESS to Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Enhanced Teaching Content (How I Spin)
The Studious Spinner
$65 or more per month ∙ 1 of 2 patrons
This is for those wanting some one-on-one time with me to offer support and help in your spinning. A scheduled time that we agree to, through TWO - 30 MINUTE SKYPE/Google Hangout calls, we can chat about anything you are wanting/needing help with in your spinning. Access to the SLACK channel, and of course, you will be entered for the monthly draw!
Includes
Includes
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Monthly draw
- SLACK Channel
- Thoughtful Spinner PDF
- EARLY ACCESS to Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Enhanced Teaching Content (How I Spin)
Goals
$1,138 of $2,000 per month
While this will be fine-tuned as we reach this milestone, we will explore the world of audio in more depth with conversations, interviews and recordings bi-monthly. Wool n' Spinning Radio will be released twice monthly to our Patreon community! At this point, the goals for the show will become community-numbers based rather than financial (ie. When we hit X number of people, we start Y in the community). I feel at this point that I will be able to focus on Wool n' Spinning in a way I hadn't been able to before and with that comes focusing more on our community numbers, creating a healthy and vibrant community, and looking after one another!
7 of 7Firstly, I am a mom and wife. My husband, also our IT Support here at Wool n' Spinning, and I have two children, who have made appearances on the show: James, 5, and Norah, 3.5.
My passion lies in the field of fibre arts and making. I love making yarn, talking and chatting about the process, and teaching handspinning. I also have come to love technology, video editing and writing. I've always kept a journal and written short stories but now I channel some of those words into essays, blog posts and content here! This has been a welcome surprise.
Wool n' Spinning started out as a way to talk about the topics I wanted to talk about and has slowly become about creating community, fellowship and learning opportunities. Most of us are seeking to become better versions of ourselves and it is a pleasure to share that journey with you.
The pleasure of making yarn by hand can not be underestimated! You don't need a spinning wheel to do it and I love my spindling equally.
With my Patreons' support, creating more teaching materials, hosting giveaway and increasingly the time length of the podcast will be attainable!
Patreon offers me the chance to be compensated for the value of the content I produce, while still covering pesky costs like downloads, domain names, software and hardware, and tools to demo with for you. It keeps the YouTube channel ad-free and generates an income for me to be able to be at home, creating for you.
Having a Patreon campaign means we can work towards more live streaming opportunities, as well as audio, travelling in the future to teach workshops and retreats, and many other opportunities we haven't even thought of yet!
My passion lies in the field of fibre arts and making. I love making yarn, talking and chatting about the process, and teaching handspinning. I also have come to love technology, video editing and writing. I've always kept a journal and written short stories but now I channel some of those words into essays, blog posts and content here! This has been a welcome surprise.
Wool n' Spinning started out as a way to talk about the topics I wanted to talk about and has slowly become about creating community, fellowship and learning opportunities. Most of us are seeking to become better versions of ourselves and it is a pleasure to share that journey with you.
The pleasure of making yarn by hand can not be underestimated! You don't need a spinning wheel to do it and I love my spindling equally.
With my Patreons' support, creating more teaching materials, hosting giveaway and increasingly the time length of the podcast will be attainable!
Patreon offers me the chance to be compensated for the value of the content I produce, while still covering pesky costs like downloads, domain names, software and hardware, and tools to demo with for you. It keeps the YouTube channel ad-free and generates an income for me to be able to be at home, creating for you.
Having a Patreon campaign means we can work towards more live streaming opportunities, as well as audio, travelling in the future to teach workshops and retreats, and many other opportunities we haven't even thought of yet!
Recent posts by Rachel Smith
Rewards
The Support Circle
$1 or more per month ∙ 34 patrons
Thank you for joining the Wool n' Spinning community! I sincerely appreciate your support!
Includes
Includes
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Wool n' Spinning Radio
The Coffee Circle
$3 or more per month ∙ 25 patrons
For all Wool n' Spinning Patrons who pledge $3 or more, you each will be entered for the monthly draw which will be awarded to one Patreon subscriber each month!
Includes
Includes
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Monthly draw
The Spinning Circle
$5 or more per month ∙ 91 patrons
This reward gives you access to the Wool n' Spinning Slack Channel - we are a very chatty bunch! And of course, you will be entered for the monthly draw.
Includes
Includes
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Monthly draw
- SLACK Channel
The Inquisitor
$8 or more per month ∙ 6 patrons
For questions, suggestions to drive content and opportunity to ask more on our Patreon-only audio RSS feed: Wool n' Spinning Radio. This is a monthly audio podcast for Patreon subscribers!
Includes
Access to the SLACK channel, and of course, you will be entered for the monthly draw!
Includes
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Monthly draw
- SLACK Channel
The Co-Executive Producer
$10 or more per month ∙ 3 patrons
Want to support the show a little more? Even if for just a short time? I'll back you up when you call yourself a Co-Producer of Wool n' Spinning AND your name will be IN PRINT ON THE SHOW CREDITS for each month you maintain this level!
Includes
Includes
Access to the SLACK channel, and of course, you will be entered for the monthly draw!
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Monthly draw
- SLACK Channel with PRIVATE chat room
- Shout out in the weekly show credits!
The Thoughtful Spinner
$12 or more per month ∙ 14 patrons
With guest appearances from my dear friend, Katrina (craftyjaks), is a monthly essay written about a topic that one of us has been thinking about over the past couple of months. Subscribing to this level will earn your name IN PRINT in a SHOUT OUT in our book due to be released in 2017!
This level also gives you access to the Slack channel and the monthly draw.
Includes
This level also gives you access to the Slack channel and the monthly draw.
Includes
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Monthly draw
- Shout Out in print in my upcoming book
- Thoughtful Spinner PDF
The Enhanced EARLY Bird (How I Spin)
$20 or more per month ∙ 22 patrons
Enhanced spinners receive an extra video post each month (How I Spin), here on Patreon, and a PDF to accomany it with a certain yarn design I've made. It will show me actually spinning at the wheel. Comments and questions from these Patreons will be answered first to help enhance your spinning experiences as you try new things!
Includes
Includes
This reward tier marries The Thoughtful Spinner with our new Radio show: Receive Wool n' Spinning Radio ONE WEEK early! You will also receive The Thoughtful Spinner PDF each month.
Subscribing to this level will earn your name IN PRINT in a SHOUT OUT in our book due to be released in 2017!
This level also gives you access to the Slack channel and the monthly draw.
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Monthly draw
- Shout Out in print in my upcoming book
- Thoughtful Spinner PDF
- EARLY ACCESS to Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Enhanced Teaching Content (How I Spin)
The Studious Spinner
$65 or more per month ∙ 1 of 2 patrons
This is for those wanting some one-on-one time with me to offer support and help in your spinning. A scheduled time that we agree to, through TWO - 30 MINUTE SKYPE/Google Hangout calls, we can chat about anything you are wanting/needing help with in your spinning. Access to the SLACK channel, and of course, you will be entered for the monthly draw!
Includes
Includes
- Monthly Teaching Content
- Monthly draw
- SLACK Channel
- Thoughtful Spinner PDF
- EARLY ACCESS to Wool n' Spinning Radio
- Enhanced Teaching Content (How I Spin)