Sunday, July 28, 2013

A case of brandy

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This swatch has shown up in this blog before.  It was swaved with the steel needle (2.38 mm) and commercial wool 6-ply yarn with a gr...
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Swatch from last batch of 10-ply

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It is cabled, 5x2-ply yarn,  that runs  very close to 1,000 ypp. The swatch is still wet from washing. The base 2-ply was loom warp spun ...
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Saturday, July 27, 2013

Swaving on US 0

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Recent swaving on US 0 (2  mm) pricks using 1,200 ypp (4-ply) yarn.  It is a firm, weatherproof fabric, good for a trip around the Hor...

Knitting and Nalbinding

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All knit fabrics can be replicated by nalbinding. This is controlled by natural laws as deep and wide as the more commonly known Newton...
Sunday, July 21, 2013

More on crossed sitches

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Working with the Coptic Stitch, I was reminded of how much I like fabrics made with crossed and plaited stitches.  It is no wonder that at...
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Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Cites

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 Makarieva, A. M., Gorshkov, V. G., Sheil, D., Nobre, A. D., and Li, B.-L.: Where do winds come from? A new theory on how water vapor conde...

20 gm, 3-ply, art yarn

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aka glove yarn Looks balanced to me.  I did not even put leases on it.
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Sunday, July 14, 2013

Swatching cotton

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The gauge is a bit off, but it is the right stitch and the variations in tension in the fabric are about correct. This was knit as we w...
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Thursday, July 11, 2013

One Yarn Project.

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About spring thaw, I went  looking to buy a loom, and visited a loom dealer that had put a loom aside for me. We ended up sitting in the ba...
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Wednesday, July 10, 2013

Nalbinding - not

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Consider :  http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEspring06/FEAThistory101.html  and in particular photos and identified as ' nalbinding...
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Friday, July 05, 2013

The One True Way to block

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My position is that I have been told a lot of different techniques to spin, and most of those techniques are not nearly as fast, as easy, a...
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knitting in Europe circa 1280

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Paul Lacroix quoting    French   historian  and  archaeologist .   Jules Étienne Joseph Quicherat  (13 October 1814–8 April 1882) : ...
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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Twist

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Twist is inserted when one end of a string is rotated relative to the other end of the string. The string is tied to a spindle, the spind...
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Skeins

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Spinners produce skeins so the yarn can be easily judged. In the past, skeins allowed the factors and weavers to judge the quality of the y...
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Saturday, June 08, 2013

The math of spinning for weaving

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One of the things that I have been persistently ridiculed over is my search for ways to spin faster. However, lets think about hand woven...
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Tuesday, June 04, 2013

Spinning with a spindle

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There is a story going around that I cannot spin with a spindle. It is libel. I have even taught spinning with a spindle at some of the l...
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Monday, June 03, 2013

The Fall collection

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We happened to be in Needless Markup as some of the fall designer collections came in. It looks like this year there are going to be some...
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Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Back to the basics of plying

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Soft and lofty woolen spun yarns present their own difficulties for plying, but the nature of the yarn hides the art of the plying.  If you...
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Wednesday, May 01, 2013

Plying

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With all due respect to core spun yarns, plying is critical to the appearance, strength, warmth, and durability of yarn.  Why then, in mode...
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Thursday, April 18, 2013

The End

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QA/QC on a large order of steel gansey needles presented me with something of an existential crisis. As I checked them, they were blunt, ...
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