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And plied. Still needs to be finished, but I already really love it.
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fin fact: rosie loves alpaca. she loves it so much.
I'm pretty happy with how this came out too. this is a 3-ply crepe with two merino/silk plies and one slightly thicker alpaca ply.
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Three bobbins filled to the brim.
I think, I named 6 to spin the singles rather consistently, but the truth is in the plying, so we will see ...
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was looking for something to pair with my shiny shiny silk. I had a little bit of alpaca fleece and I'm remembering now why someone gave it to me for free. it is filthy. it's real pretty though, the dust and the vm should wash out.
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Next spinning project.
The fiber is combed top from John Arbon - a mix of 90% British wool (Exmoor Blueface, Bluefaced Leicester, Devon Closewool and Romney) and 10% Mulberry Silk.
It's a dream to spin and even if it's only a little silk - it has a huge impact on the softness, more than I'd expected.
When I visited the shop, they'd just gotten a huge delivery, and I was allowed to go through the boxes and pick something - I felt very honored
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Oh my, this is a great technique to deal with a striped top. The colors often look gorgeous in those tops but when you actually spin them, the colors get all muddy.
But some patience is required.
Questionable Blend 12 - Ice and Fire. Intentional Optical Mixing on a Bl...
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#handspinning crunchy bulky wool - the big ply is black welsh mountain, the grey ply is idk some nonspecific roving and the tan is just some yarn Rosie's been kicking around. pretty.
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A day off of work, weather too hot to go outside or do anything that requires more activity than sitting in a chair - a skein of yarn is done.
I was in such a flow thati even forgot to take a picture of the singles.
I think it had about the same yardage as the other one from the toot above. And about the same softness.
We will see, how they really differ after finishing as I've used two different techniques for spinning the singles.
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Helemaal buiten mijn comfortzone, want ik spin meestal juist dun en gelijkmatig, volgde ik een workshop corespinning bij Thérèse Akkermans tijdens het wolkamp in Elsloo afgelopen week. Maar wat was het leuk! Nu nog bedenken wat ik met deze streng zal gaan doen. #HandSpinning #ArtYarn #FiberArt #Wool
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And plied.
What a difference it makes, when you don't try to spin as finely as possible.
Pre finishing the yarn is not super soft to the touch, but the fiber mix (40% Devon Closewool / 40% Romney / 20% Exmoor Blueface) wasn't suggesting it would be too soft anyway - all of those breeds are in the mid 30ies micron count.
I'll spin the other braid and finish them together.
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Spun the first braid, from the fold. And in my usual not too tidy way of filling a bobbin.
When I start a new bobbin I usually pay attention and slide the hook regularly along to fill it evenly. But when the bobbin is about half full the moving has to happen less frequently and I get in the zone, only realizing how much I've spun when the uptake gets weak. Which is way too late for a nicely filled bobbin.
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First thing to decide: how do I want to spin this. The way the fiber is structured, it is best suited for worsted spinning, fine singles and then ply them.
But that is my default spin - it gets a bit boring.
So I'm going to try two different approaches here. The purple-turquoise one I will spin from the fold, the other one with a low ratio and a rather high uptake just end-to-end. Both will be a 2-ply. Let's see, how the yarns differ.
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Today’s tour overtime - Noel, merino/bamboo/silk, 62.5/25/12.5.
Plus Merida and Harvest bracelet plied.
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Next spinning projects.
Last year on vacation I visited a wonderful fiber arts shop that has a great selection of spinning fiber. Among other things they have John Arbon - and of course I had to get some.
Two braids of Appledore in the color ways Spicy Pippin and Bitter Ellis, 100 g each (I forgot to take a picture before starting to spin off over of them)
Let's see what they will turn into
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The shop was Stiel Wolwerkplaats near Almelo, NL
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I did try to spin to match, but with about a year’s gap and more experience, it’s thinner and more even. It is a different blend batch too, so the colours are quite different - less yellow in the new batch. The originals are on the right of their newly spun skeins. The little ones are bracelet plied.
Malachite blend (merino, bamboo, silk) from golden fleece studio on Etsy.
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And now it's finished. Very soft, very nice, very fine.
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Final tour tally … now that the Femmes is finished - lots 😁 and a little bit not in frame on supported and drop spindles.
Each sample skein (11) is about 40-45g, 60-90m 2plied. 7 more samples are singles that are resting (they’ll be roughly the same lengths). The big malachite skein is 460m (with another 30 of ply-back), the purple/navy Edinburgh braid is 100g/160m, and the sock wool is 200g split over two bobbins.
Probably around 2km+ once plied in total I’d reckon.
I didn’t get through my advent calendar fully thanks to the bigger malachite ply and the sock wool espin - there are only 4 samples left, so I’ll continue apace until those have been spun up.
There’s most definitely a colour theme here. 😆
I already have more weaving and knitting plans than there is yarn length.
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The first of the two circles is spun and plied and if I did my counting correctly it's about 800 m before finishing. The skein is now soaking in a relaxing, cool bath.
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Depuis la première étape qui est passée devant ma porte, j’ai filé presque tous les jours pour faire honneur au Tour de France féminin.
Le Tour de Fleece est un événement annuel pour les fileuses. J’y ai rarement participé mais cette fois je suis à fond.
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progress! the texture is getting better, or maybe I'm just getting used to it.
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RE: https://social.anoxinon.de/@ninawillburger/117052483104931251
Reaching through time.
Wonderful drop spindle with stone whorl. Over 5000 years old - and the spun fibers on the cop are crosswise wound like we still do it today (and how I teach it in my workshops, I just like to wind it in a slightly other form). Thinking about how this spindle was lost.
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Breeze - merino/bamboo/tussah silk/mint/tencel
37.5/25/12.5/12.5/12.5
Smooth and fine spin ☺️
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