Spinning FO: Spindle Spun Silk
I've been spinning a silk hankie on my spindle. It's a lot of fun, even when I get snared by stray silk threads. You pull off layer after layer and there's still more. A lot more. Plied most of what I'd spun,
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Spinning FO: Corriedale and BFL
Started teaching Rox how to spin on my Ashford Kiwi wheel this week, and she did very well. Beth is right, there is an obligation for spinning wheel owners to addict the next generation of spinners. It's on a slip of paper in the box the wheel comes
Spinning progress
Picked up a big box from the Weaving Department at Myer's House and Hubby helped me turn it into this:
It's an Ashford Kiwi with a clear lacquer finish. I was sent home from the store with a big ball of white roving and an oil
Spin, coin, knit
Tried spinning my silk hankie on Friday, using the Knittyspin article as a guide. I'm amazed at the results! It is so easy to spin, even easier than the Coopworth, and it's shiny. Shiny and beautiful. It gets stuck to your hands, especially if your skin
Still going
Spun some of the Sugar Maple Colonial Wool from Copper Moose last night, it was more difficult than the Coopworth and I'm spinning a very fine thread. Need to make it a bit thicker next time. Picked up a silk hankie and some Corriedale pencil roving from Crown
Spinning FO: Identification
The Yarn Harlot's new book Knitting Rules mentions several ways to identify anonymous yarn, including setting it on fire and dissolving it in bleach. I found a slightly less dangerous way: Shipping tags. You can label each piece of yarn with what it is and where it came
Bullet points
Spun, plied, and washed my mini-skein on Tuesday, it's dry now. George was not as easy to spin as the Coopworth, but the dyed fibre was nice. It's a lot less even than my wheel-spun, but it's not as thick as my last spindle
Back in the saddle
It's Tuesday, Hubby's out, there's Stargate SG-1 in the DVD player, and I'm spinning on the spindle again. My plan is to use George, the chunk of cream roving I got free from the yarn store, and the puff of green and
Hello Spinner
Today was the final spinning class and I had to give the spinning wheel back. We plied our homework into skeins of real live yarn, wound it using a niddy-noddy, flick-carded some unwashed fleece, and hand carded some washed and dyed fleece. I spun a little ball of "greasy
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