Tag: spinning
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From this: To this: And this: And finally this! I was getting 11 WPI on this yarn, so I used my 7.5 dent heddle. Feeling pretty happy with it :) It’s about 60″ long and super warm. The Navajo plying really lends itself to warp threads; the longer colour runs really show off in the…
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It’s amazing how much the fiber changes, from merino top to actual yarn. This is a braid from a dyer called ‘Urban GypZ’ – part of our haul from Jaqueline’s stash (more on that later!). Most of it was spun on the weekend at the show. My uneven singles :) Yarn in the plying (navajo plied,…
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When I was spinning Peggy I kept wondering if spinning was supposed to be this hard. I practically had to manhandle the fiber to draft it, and ended up drafting very thin, almost to pencil roving, to make it go. Looking back, I’m amazed that I spun it all. My next braid was 100% pure…
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A few months ago, Rayna picked up a massive stash of fiber from someone who had opted to get rid of, literally, a garbage bag full of the stuff. She was going through it and held up a braid and declared that she would likely never spin it up. I said ‘I would!’ and Rayna…
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Almost a year ago Rayna gifted me a braid of fluff in a really soft superwash blend of merino/bamboo/nylon (called, I have just learned, ‘Panda’) by Dripping Fiber Studios. The colour way was called ‘A Song of Ice and Fire’ and, being that I was into the books, she thought of me :) I’m sure…
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I’ve had my wheel for a week, and it’s already got a space in my heart right text to my loom and my Sock Rockets. It started out feeling like a battle between the wheel and I, but I learned to relax, to move my feet slowly and my hands faster, to keep the wheel…
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Leslie came over last night to give me my first really intensive spinning lesson. The wheel is a thing of beauty. It’s a Baynes, single drive, scotch tension, double treadle wheel. One day I’ll know what all that means. Leslie gave me a number of exercises that, all together, helped me be spinning something that…
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“You should blog that photo” said Rayna, “You know, to show…” (Leslie finishes) “That you suck at something.” The girls were playfully ribbing me as I produces this laughable yarn :) it was my first time on a wheel, and it really feels like the yarn is getting away from you and you can’t possibly…
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Last Saturday, myself and my very favourite enablers partners in crime (Rayna, Leslie & Tito) went for a road trip out to Colbourne to see the Sensei of All Things Spinning Related. Alas, I cannot share photos for a while, but I will tell you that my antique wheel is being repaired, and that I…
The Blue Brick 