Friday, September 30, 2016

Phase 3

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Phase 1 was spinning for knitting.  Phase 2 was learning to spin fast and fine. Phase 3 is spinning for weaving. The new guild season has...
Monday, September 26, 2016

Measure!

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I get teased and chided on for using the traditional spinner's measures.  In  particular, measuring grist by stating the number of ...
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Sunday, September 25, 2016

Wool Warp that works.

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Easy! More twist!  With enough twist, you are less likely to need sizing. So, I spin worsted 10s, @ 9 tpi, and it gets plied up into vari...

Look, and read on

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Costco also sold The New Ivy Brand Vintage Classics with packaging stating that it was hand spun, hand woven. Later, Costco  also did s...
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Friday, September 23, 2016

More spinning bobbins

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Alden really did tell me very emphaticly, several times that whorls, flyer and bobbin should be have  "board cut grain".  That di...
Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Space Cloth

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Just when you think you have seen everything! 'Space cloth' to revolutionise textiles industry A designer and researcher has...
Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Old cotton cloth

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Oldest textile dyed indigo blue found A George Washington University researcher has identified a 6,200-year-old indigo-blue fabric fr...
Tuesday, September 13, 2016

Goldfishy

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Costco had several styles of men's shirts made by The New Ivy Brand: All had prominent packaging stating they were hand spun and han...
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Monday, September 12, 2016

Jerseys and Guernseys

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See Patterns for Guernseys, Jerseys and Arans  by Gladys Thompson, Page 5, line 12. See L'Ouvre by E. Zola.  It seems that "Ouvr...
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Tuesday, September 06, 2016

Dreaming

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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was...
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Saturday, September 03, 2016

Sponges

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A while back, the Captain of the tall ship Alma, kept a place at Lake Berryessa, and he was a generous host.  However, over the door was a ...
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Friday, September 02, 2016

Seduced by the Dark Side, I was!

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Many times, I have stated that combed top and (pin drafted) roving from mills is more difficult to spin and I have noted that yarn, handspu...
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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...