so this thing still on, huh
mainly here for #fiberarts (#spinning, #weaving, #knitting, etc) and friends who left twitter.
aspiring #homesteader (garden, chickens, sheep)
i like doing things the pre-industrial ways
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i just measured them taking notes of their width (shown) and length, so i can come up with a plan. never knitted a sweater!
i bought the yarn variety to figure out which sheep i wanted, and how i might want to spin. i got them ecru to learn dyeing with.
family was asked about new year’s resolutions. i said to learn to dye yarn (bought a natural kit in summer 2021) and to knit a sweater out of this sampler i have (bought late 2022) which will be dyed.
each of the 12 yarns will be a different color.
love this little spindle. spun 46 yards of ultra fine yarn with it. about 45 wraps per inch. estimate 720 yards per 50 grams.
for comparison, malabrigo lace is about 30 wpi and 470 yards. this looks comparable to a single ply of 2/18 weaving yarn, which i also measured at 45 wpi.
love this little spindle. spun 46 yards of ultra fine yarn with it. about 45 wraps per inch. estimate 720 yards per 50 grams.
for comparison, malabrigo lace is about 30 wpi and 470 yards. this looks comparable to a single ply of 2/18 weaving yarn, which i also measured at 45 wpi.
flacscan you believe that computers used to have miniture furnaces in them to smelt multi-metal alloys at specific temperatures up to 700 °C in order to modify how much they scatter light and we stopped doing it not because it's complicated but because it was too slow
went to the local rural art gallery, having a fiber show right now. bought some variegated wool to spin (i’ve only spun undyed so far). the blue is super fine, the red is sorta fine.
there’s some incredibly cheap handspun yarn for sale, but it’s also incredibly coarse.
also these carders are stupid small. makes the techniques i see hard to do as there isn’t enough depth, and they only hold like a gram of fiber.
but a cheap introduction, and i was concerned my matted fleece might mess them up (it did not). i think i do want to buy good ones.
so much kemp in that last sample. it doesn’t always twist lock, so it definitely should be plied, maybe with better yarn.
all the comb waste is also short fibers. i wouldn’t use any of it in knitting, just as weft for low-wear items (curtains, placemats, etc).
i carded waste wool and spun it.
closest to the whorl was already there. then there’s fairly nice soft waste from combs (second pic). then commercial merino top scraps (not pictured). and finally some of the worst waste from the combs (last 2 pics), full of kemp and matted bits.
