Friday, January 29, 2021

The math and physics of knitting

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   https://www.sciencenews.org/article/how-one-physicist-unraveling-mathematics-knitting I know this wanders around a bit, but the bottom ...
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Saturday, January 23, 2021

Good sock yarn

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 I like good socks.  Good socks require good yarn. I do not like the commercial yarns that I see in retail yarn shops or fiber festivals.  T...
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Better yarn

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 I started spinning circa 2006, because the venders that sold me the "gansey" yarns that I loved were closing. It took me years to...
Friday, January 22, 2021

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    Here is a photo of a sock in progress, being knit at a gauge of 12 spi x 20 rpi: The needles are 12” US 000; the yarn is 6-ply (ca...
Thursday, November 12, 2020

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 The Victorian Court reinvented hand knitting without great attention to historical facts. One of their myths was that most knitting was don...
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Tuesday, July 21, 2020

Posture while knitting - Or a Perch for knitting.

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Over the years, I have used several favorite knitting chairs. Each seemed to work best with a particular kind of knitting sheath. (Airli...
Saturday, July 18, 2020

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About 20 years ago, I started my exploration of how durable, weatherproof wool seaman’s garments could have been expeditiously produced p...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Learning advance knitting

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Carson Demers (https://www.ergoiknit.com/ ) and I met on the SF quay the other day and had a little master’s class on swaving. I gave him ...
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Sunday, May 19, 2019

Knitting needles - revisited yet again

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I had not been doing much knitting, but looking around I saw that there were a number of WIP, some commercial yarn, and a good bit of hand ...
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Monday, October 08, 2018

Spinzilla

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This last week, I spun about 25,000 yards of wool yarn, about half semi-worsted from flock run 56 count wool and half woolen from fine  Ram...
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Saturday, September 15, 2018

Cotton Cards

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I like my drum carder - it is a Clemes and Clemes. I think hand cranked carders can be gentler on fine fibers than the motorized. However...
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Saturday, September 08, 2018

Spinzilla

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All of this talk about fine spinning has put me in the mood to do some spinning. My wife is off to a school reunion, so I am off to Spinzil...

THREE

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All the wheel makers indicate the "ratio" of  their wheels in various configurations. However, because of drive belt slip, it is ...
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Friday, September 07, 2018

TWO

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Alden made me 2 DD flyers - a #1 and a #0, his "Competition" flyer.  The #1 Flyer has a capacity  of about 3 ounces of yarn and t...

ONE

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I spin at a reasonable speed. I did not learn to spin until I was old, my eyes dim, and my fingers stiff. My advantages were curiosity and ...
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Thursday, September 06, 2018

How fast did professional hand spinners spin?

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 See http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/longest-thread-of-hand-spun-wool-in-one-hour/ My normal single is 5,600 ypp  (...
Saturday, August 25, 2018

Vogue Knitting Live

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The Vogue Knitting Live San Francisco will be at the Hilton the long weekend of  September 21. On the September 21, 2018, I will be in the ...
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Sunday, July 29, 2018

DRS Spinning wheels revisited

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Is it DRS?  Spin and maintain treadle pace, then draft faster.   If the wheel sucks all the yarn into the orifice faster than it can in...

Carbon Steel needles

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When I started all this, I was pleasantly surprised that my carbon steel (spring) steel needles did not rust nearly as much as I expected. ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2018

Sharpening HSS

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I have been turning thread bobbins from solid blocks of maple and oak. Often the shavings are like long (hundreds of feet) strips of paper....