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makerandbean · 5 days
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today, we are Train Spinning, my friends
(still with the eri silk / Turkish spindle. i’ve since discovered this is not actually dyed! this is the natural colour of this silk. how cool!)
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mirith · 4 months
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Started a chain-ply as-you-go spin! Fiber is merino, colorway sky gifts by three waters farm (this month's fiber club!).
Going for a twistier yarn than usual. Not spinning with a project in mind. Just enjoying the process.
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mappsiemakesthings · 26 days
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I also did some spinning!
This green batt had been lying around since.. idk 1 or 2 years, but I splurged on a second cross spindle and NEEDED to spin something and this was the first thing the fell into my hands!
With this I also figured out a way to chainply on the fly - and it made me finish these 4 wonderful turtles in a record time (mappsie record time, but still xD)
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The batt's fiber content is: 60% Merino 20% Shetland 20% Tencel
Then I started with these pretties I bought secondhand from Kleinanzeigen.de
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200g total! 1 turtle done. Again with chainply-on-the-fly because it's working well for me, my hands and wrist, and brain.
I've been also chipping away on the black merino with red silk which took forever, but I finished spinning all its fluff into a single which is now waiting to be plied.
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Also, I spun more of this stuff which I'm pretty sure there's still some fluff left. Ah well, langsam nährt sich das Eichhörnchen, as the German saying goes.
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Also also I've plied another turtle full of white alpaca and Paz coloured merino/silk mix.
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And then! Well then my spinning streak was interrupted by some
✨ nålbinding ✨
It FINALLY clicked for me, after 5 years of on/off trying! I'll show that in the next post (whenever I'll get to make it lol)
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tyrhinosaurus · 3 months
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Festive green for a festive time of year!
It's an ashford blend if anyone is curious, lovely and soft, little slippery at times at this thickness but very beautiful colour.
I was so jealous of everyone's lovely advent spins, it's so fantastic to see the idea gaining popularity. I'll have to watch out for them next year!
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👉👈 What if you shared your Turkish spindles with me and I pretend I can afford to buy something?
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Absolute unit. Look at this cake. 176grams and 393 yards of DK weight wool. I am so fucking stoked
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pigeon-feet · 9 months
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new guy very small
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moonymoon90 · 1 year
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New skein done!
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pastelispunx · 1 year
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A Yuletime tradition in my little corner of the world is trying a new fiber related skill for the week I take off work between Yule and the new year. This year my Momma surprised me with a Turkish spindle with lil sheepy cut outs. Over the moon, obsessed, in love. This is my first spin on it and I'm not doing too badly, if I do say so myself!
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koniknits · 27 days
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Matchy matchy
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cottonkhaleesi · 8 months
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Well, definitely not my most consistent spin, but finished up the corn fibre just in time to go on holiday. Let me tell you it got EVERYWHERE. I’m still lint rolling it off all sorts. Spun like silk (with all of the issues of silk), wanted to be very thin, no thickness here please! and if I were to spin it again it would be blended with something else in order to really get the best from it. Think I’m going to be saying that a lot with these “natural bioengineered” fibres
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makerandbean · 10 days
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bus stop spinning with silk
rating: very dangerous. use a spindle you’re okay with maybe dropping onto concrete. but ALSO… very pretty. look at that silk glow!
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mirith · 6 months
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heya, what is that fiber ball thing? you posted a lot of pictures for someone who ia Going Through It and there was a blue-green wool on some kind of Contraption, what is it? it looks interesting. (of course no worries and no hard feelings if for any reason you don't want to answer or anything)
I enjoy talking about my yarn hobbies, so happy to answer!
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Are you asking about this guy? It's a turkish spindle with a turtle of plied handspun on it!
A Turkish spindle is a bottom whorl drop spindle, with four legs. You can wrap the yarn around the legs as you spin in a pattern to make it look nice.
You can skip the next couple paragraphs if you're familiar with spinning.
Drop spindles just put twist into fiber; you attach fiber to them, twist the shaft of the spindle, and when the fiber is twisted enough, you wind that section on to the spindle, and repeat on a new section of fiber.
I used mine to chain ply a test bit of single ply yarn. "Chain" in chain ply means you make a big chain of slipknots/crochet chain and "ply" means twist it the opposite direction the yarn is spun, to balance the twist. The finished yarn shouldn't curl on itself, and should behave like a typical yarn if the twist is balanced correctly.
The turtle comes off the spindle and then it's a center pull ball.
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Here's a progress photo. The colors in the wraps looked really nice, and this picture maybe clarifies how the turtle is constructed.
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I've just started another layer here.
You wrap over two legs, under one, each wrap placed more outward than the previous. When the layer gets full, go under two legs and then resume wrapping as usual.
I don't have videos of my spinning, but there's plenty out there!
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paleangellex · 1 year
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I'm going to finish this 4oz colorway this weekend, and then we'll see how long I can let it rest before plying...
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guardevoir · 3 months
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Fiber arts update:
Warped the loom for a second, simple scarf for practice purposes: (the camera is lying to you btw, the blue is actually really vibrant)
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I'm figuring out several things here: Firstly, just plain horizontal stripes are boring. Secondly, my shuttle is a mess because I didn't pay attention to the direction colors would be coming off of it again. Made it work, but notes taken for next time. Thirdly, I've found SO many fun and spicy new ways to utterly fuck up my warp tension! I am studying those fuck-ups like particularly odd bugs. Fourthly, there are ALSO so many interesting ways to fuck up your selvedges! The same thing applies. Fifthly, despite all the ????? I've got going on, I adore doing this nonsense and I can't wait to have my wheel free so I can spin for weaving.
Then, spindles! Still working on the alpaca/merino stuff on the big spindle, and having an excellent time with it, even if alpaca is fuzzy bullshit. I like the way this spindle spins; the slowness of it takes some getting used to, but the more rim-weighted distribution of the weight here is just so forgiving and chill compared to my regular bottom-whorl spindle. You have to fuck up SO badly to drop this one by comparison, too.
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Then, the viscose nonsense is also progressing well: Worked on it on the train a lot a couple days ago, because that's something you can actually do with a spindle that small - less space being taken up by the spindle shaft means more space for yarn, even while sitting. Pretty neat!
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And on my regular spindle, I've got Merino/silk now! 'Tis the season for not having a single easy, straightforward fiber on a drop spindle, apparently.
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Didn't get too much done on it yet, mostly because this one's harder to use while sitting than the Turkish ones and I haven't done a lot of standing around lately.
And on the wheel, I still have the royal blue Merino I'm working on. Also not a huge amount of progress there because I've been out and about quite a bit (also, new shiny loom), but I'm slowly chipping away at it every day!
And on a Temperature Project note: Still haven't made a decision; I'm just tracking temperatures for now while I figure out what I want to do.
I'm also currently looking at blending boards so I can get more creative with my yarns, but idk whether to go for 19cm or 40cm width, and whether I want a prebuilt one or trust myself to find a good cutting board and handle a staple gun.
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Oopsie doodle
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