Friday, February 28, 2014

Verðandi

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4.  Spinning woolen too fast causes the yarn to collapse and become fuzzy worsted, rather than fluffy woolen.

Weirder and Weirder

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It seems that I can sum up everything that I know about spinning as: Spinning  faster makes spinning fine much easier. Spinning fine ...
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Thursday, February 27, 2014

My weirdest post ever

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The other day, I was spinning some carded, medium long wool, loosely drafting inch worm to produce a decent semi-worsted medium (22,000 ypp...
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Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Maths, physics, and logics

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I hate it when somebody talks down to me, so I try not to do it. However, it seems that I must talk "baby talk" for Gorden to u...
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Sunday, February 23, 2014

How fast can hand spinners, spin?

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Long before mill spun, weavers were weaving ship loads of "shirting". The yarns used by the weavers were (hand spun)  "40s...
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Thursday, February 20, 2014

A hank per hour of worsted 10s

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(e.g., 560 yards per hour of 5,600 ypp ) is not hard.  It just means spinning ~ 10 yards per minute.  (CF Alden Amos, page 241)   The truth...
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014

The Great Question

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Which is faster, Spindle or Wheel? This afternoon,  I am spinning semi-worsted, 5,600 ypp from Romney.  It is accumulating on bobbins at ...
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I was wrong

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About the increase in speed resulting from putting ball bearings on the AA #1 flier. I expected, perhaps a 10% increase in speed.  Actual...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014

Acceptance

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I am surprised when knitters and spinners do not accept what I say. There are simple tests for everything that I say. I do tests on w...
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Bearings

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Many times, I have said that flyer bearings were not very important. Well, I put high-quality ball bearings on the Alden Amos #1 flier a...
Thursday, February 13, 2014

Swaving again, and what it looks like

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Swaved fabric looks like knit fabric - because it is knit fabric.  Fabric that is swaved has a 'row out' horizontal rib on the pu...
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Spinning wheel oil

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For the last couple of years, I have been using a variety of lubricants for my spinning wheel. Now, I seem to be settling firmly on Royal...

VM and grist

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I have been experimenting with singles of different grist. One thing I notice is that that there are several kinds of vegetable matter th...
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Saturday, February 08, 2014

The Wild West

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Spinning is the new Wild West for me.  It does not matter, which direction I go, there are always opportunities to spin faster. I made m...
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Friday, February 07, 2014

Knitting 10-ply

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It is "gansey yarn" on steroids. The thing that jumped out at me was that the fabric is more elastic than fabric knit from othe...
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Real, hand spun, 10-ply Aran yarn

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Plied up from worsted singles that I spun over the last 4 years. It is it 211 yards of hand spun 10-ply weighing 196 grams (504 yards pe...
Tuesday, February 04, 2014

Combing waste as 10-ply

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I had a big bin of  combing waste. It is left over from combing Romney and some Rambouillet.  I had thought to felt it, but I carded it o...
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Monday, February 03, 2014

There is nothing worse than being cold

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I have been told many, many times that it was not plausible for hand spinners to make 5-ply knitting yarn, and that 5-ply yarn was a produc...
Sunday, February 02, 2014

My New Favorite Mill Spun "Gansey"' Yarns

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Last year I bought several cones of  2-ply 5,600 ypp warp yarns from Mitzi's yarns ( http://www.mitzis-yarn-weaving-knitting.com/ ) and...
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A better Lazy Kate

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These days, my Lazy Kate  is a piece of 3/4" inch plywood about 10" square with about 60-1/4" holes drilled  1/2" deep ...