Monday, April 26, 2021

Handspun Sock Yarn

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 I returned to knitting in 1999. I started working on how to hand knit objects well suited to keeping fisherman warm on a square-rigged ship...
Friday, April 16, 2021

Lazy Kate

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 Nothing is more indicative of the loss of traditional technologies for  hand spinning is the loss of  using a "tension box" to co...
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Thursday, April 15, 2021

A Troll

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 I have been declared "a troll" on Ravelry. That says more about their culture than my nature. They do not like people that read a...
Thursday, April 08, 2021

Gansey Yarn

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 Gansey Yarn is one of the glories of knitting. When knit on thin steel needles, supported in a knitting sheath, it results in a fabric that...
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Tuesday, April 06, 2021

Spin Tec

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 I spin because I want yarns that I cannot buy commercially.    The best of the British 5-ply worsted spun yarns are no longer produced. The...
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Saturday, April 03, 2021

DRS Overview

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  I started into differential rotation speed (DRS) spinning with the simple goal of using 2 drive bands to get the flyer/bobbin assembly to ...
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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