Category: spinning
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Change One Thing
pale teal 16/2 cotton, blue 2/16 cotton 2/16 cotton yarns with two different twists per inch in the ply Reminder: I use ply before count to denote ring spun yarn; count before ply for open end spun yarn, because they are very different in their natures. When I identify them with their ‘count’ in…
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Step by Step
Not entirely sure I’m in love with this design, but I think it will do. That centre stripe is a bit overwhelming when seen in full width, but generally I tend to fold my towels in half lengthwise, in which case the side ‘stripes’ then become framed with the zig-zags which would then reduce…
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Misty
Last night I started making more blending board ‘rolags’. There are three ‘layers’ to them. I begin with an even covering of the grey, then do a layer of the hand dyed braid (primarily cyan and magenta) and then finish with a final layer of the grey. The colours are bleeding through the layer…
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Two Bins Full
Yesterday I was able to get a filling replaced but it meant a very early morning and I felt tired and dragged all day. I did manage to get two towels woven, and I poked about in my spinning fibre stash and finally found the bump of the pale grey I knew I had…somewhere.…
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Now Toy – er, Tool!
Yesterday Doug got the Ashford spinner put together and last night I fiddled with it to make sure I could make it work. It took longer than I had hoped because I forgot to anchor the leader string so that it would actually wind onto the flyer, but in the end I got there…
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Now Toy – er, Tool!
Yesterday Doug got the Ashford spinner put together and last night I fiddled with it to make sure I could make it work. It took longer than I had hoped because I forgot to anchor the leader string so that it would actually wind onto the flyer, but in the end I got there…
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Now Toy – er, Tool!
Yesterday Doug got the Ashford spinner put together and last night I fiddled with it to make sure I could make it work. It took longer than I had hoped because I forgot to anchor the leader string so that it would actually wind onto the flyer, but in the end I got there…
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Now Toy – er, Tool!
Yesterday Doug got the Ashford spinner put together and last night I fiddled with it to make sure I could make it work. It took longer than I had hoped because I forgot to anchor the leader string so that it would actually wind onto the flyer, but in the end I got there…
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Now Toy – er, Tool!
Yesterday Doug got the Ashford spinner put together and last night I fiddled with it to make sure I could make it work. It took longer than I had hoped because I forgot to anchor the leader string so that it would actually wind onto the flyer, but in the end I got there…
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Now Toy – er, Tool!
Yesterday Doug got the Ashford spinner put together and last night I fiddled with it to make sure I could make it work. It took longer than I had hoped because I forgot to anchor the leader string so that it would actually wind onto the flyer, but in the end I got there…