Thursday, August 25, 2016

Sonia Rykiel

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Wednesday, August 24, 2016

Good stuff

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 Hand spun, worsted 10-ply Aran The yarn is not designed to be easy to knit.  The yarn is designed to have very high fill, so as to...
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Monday, August 22, 2016

Spinner Creed, cont.

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A spinner gets stuff spun. Yarn for another 10-ply "Aran" Sweater: If stuff is good, you will need more than one. Those ...
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Sunday, August 21, 2016

The spinner's creed

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What does a good spinner need to know? aspirational - be able to name and replicate any natural fiber yarn or thread, including those in ...
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Saturday, August 20, 2016

Alden Amos, revisited

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Alden Amos', Big Book of Handspinning (2001) (aka Big Blue Book, BBB) is the best book on hand spinning wool. At one time, I thought...

Spades

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When I came to knitting for warmth, I was told loudly, and firmly by "experienced knitters" that commercial yarns knit on circula...
Friday, August 19, 2016

Fat

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More evidence that 'healthy obesity' may be a myth The term "healthy obesity" has gained traction over the past 15 y...

Some drink, some ply

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I ply. The results from last night, 4 cakes of 10-ply from hand spun singles, and the bobbins emptied to make the cakes: I like the...
Saturday, August 13, 2016

Softer

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When I first experimented with "goosewing" knitting sheaths, with short stiff needles, they pivoted on the point of  my hip, and ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2016

Space Cadet

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No sooner do I define and bound my world, than I spin off, and abandon it. Pawing through the stash, I found a bin of worsted singles in ...
Tuesday, August 09, 2016

Craftsmanship

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All objects are some compromise of: quality, schedule, available resources, and  budget, Quality may be "pretty " for personal ...
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My World of Knitting

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I have basically moved to knitting handspun.  I want yarns that are not available in the commercial knitting yarn market.  If the yarns I w...

My world of knitting yarn

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Long wool comes in, and often gets spun  worsted with a firm twist at about 5,600 ypp ( 10s, 11.3 m/g).  Such singles were commonly used f...

Bad Science, myth, and old wives tales.

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I said something about turning bobbins from green wood, and got comments that it could not be done. Some of the bobbins that I turned ...
Monday, August 08, 2016

Science

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The irreproducibility crisis – an opportunity to make science better August 8, 2016 by Megan Yu, Plos Blogs Among the 1,576  resea...
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Wednesday, August 03, 2016

Aran Knitting

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Aran yarns were traditionally 10-ply, 500 ypp worsted spun. This was twice as heavy as modern sport weight, and ~ 70% heavier than worsted ...

Aran Knitting

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Aran yarns were traditionally 10-ply, 500 ypp worsted spun. This was twice as heavy as modern sport weight, and ~ 70% heavier than worsted ...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

Aaron Knits

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First make some nice 14-ply, worsted spun, wool yarn.  It is easy with a tension box type Lazy Kate:  to get: Craftsmen need ...
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