Wednesday, March 31, 2021

DRS v. single drive

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I started spinning because I wanted good “gansey yarn”. Sweater yarn spun from long staple, lustrous wool, with 5 worsted spun plies, with a...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

DRS v. Scotch Tension

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  Are there really threads that cannot be spun with Scotch tension, but can be spun with DRS? I have been challenged for my statements tha...
Monday, March 29, 2021

Revisited Heiz 57 at spin count

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  Here is a pix of this fiber at spin count and 2x spin count (twice spin count grist). With only 10 fibers in cross section of singe, t...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

Heinz 57 at its spin count

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  Once again, I come to the conclusion, that good yarn is the result the practice of good spinning craft. Ok, I can spin the Heinz 57 at 3...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

seeking very fine singles for socks and hose

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  Within the last couple of weeks, I have spun 3 different fibers in the range of 25,000 to 35,000 ypp. This fiber is different; it does not...
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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