Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Spinning in the Rain

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Californian has been in a drought, so when it started raining this morning, I went out to spin on the porch. Am I spinning skeins?  Not l...
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Multi-ply Refined

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I came to spinning for better gansey yarn. Gansey yarns were all worsted spun so worsted spun is what I did without thought.  And I loved t...

Whcih way to comb?.

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There are 2 schools of combing.  One is to comb so all the tips point in the same direction.  The other is to comb so that the tips point i...

Wool Grades and Sheep breeds

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A good wool grader can recognized more than 300 grades of wool. And, wool grades are important to spinners - more so than the breed.  Havin...
Tuesday, September 29, 2015

More fibs

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I fibbed when I said that I spin hanks. In fact, I also put a lot of yarn on bobbins: That is about 15,000 yards of my hand spun on bo...
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Monday, September 28, 2015

Fractured History

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Ok, you have this model of history - does it inform your spinning and make you a better spinner? Or it just interesting?  Or, does it hol...

Hanks?

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Turns out I fibbed:  Not all my yarn is in hanks: I seem to have 10,000 yards or so of woolen singles in big cakes. (right) The cakes in...

Tying it all together.

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From the early medieval until ~1780 the very profitable and competitive European textile industry depended on hand spinning.  It is reasona...
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Sunday, September 27, 2015

Spinning stools

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I broke a pitman rod connector, so the wheel is in the shop. I fabricated a new connector and want to test it.  The stool at hand was a ste...

"That Stuff Is Nasty!"

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See:  "Here Come the Judge!"  below. These days I go back to the bins of stuff that I set aside for felting, but did not use, a...
Saturday, September 26, 2015

Resting On The Patio Between Tests

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A few grams of 90 meter/gram weft, spun, washed, blocked, and waiting for its next competency test. If you do not like it, then you sh...

Cuts

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For the last couple of years, I have not spun "skeins", rather I have spun "hanks" of 560 yards. Both woolen and wors...
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Here Come The Judge!

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Here is how I think the judge interview would go: Enter Judge Judge sees yarn. Judge:  What is the purpose of this yarn! Aaron: ...
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Friday, September 25, 2015

An apology

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I owe Holin an apology.  I should not have tried to push her away, she seems to be really helping my readership numbers.  Heck, I think w...
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35 minutes

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I issued a challenge to Holin, that we meet up, spin 100 yards of warp from 1 gram of wool fiber in a states time of 35 minutes, and we the...
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Fines on the Internet

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There are two established groups of fine spinners on the internet.  One of them spins lace, the other spin for Longest Thread competitions....
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Thursday, September 24, 2015

Romney and medium wools

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Below is an image of fine thread spun from Romney wool spun with only 5 to 7 staples/wool fibers in cross section. Its twist is about 25 tp...
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Pix of Rambouilett at Spin Count

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Here is one of my old rusted iron squares with 6 wraps of Rambouilett at Spin count:  Note the slub on the left-most wrap to help you ...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

The Lambtown Yarn Contest.

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In America we have spinning contests called, "Longest Thread", but which have little to do with spinning fine or fast. In the pas...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Fluff

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I have been spinning Anna Harvey's Rambouillet - it is beautiful fine white stuff. Unfortunately, I seem to have abused this part of th...