Then I started spinning up a bit more of the Merino/Cashmere/Silk. It's a mill end that I purchased at the Woodstock Fleece Festival. The Black Lamb often has huge bags of mill ends for really affordable prices. A friend of mine has some of this and was trying to figure out a way to spin it to make a shawl with. I found it a little tricky to get consistent, so I played around different drafting methods both in the above grey skein and in this bobbin. Re-carding didn't really work as well as I'd hoped. In the end, I just took the mill ends, folded them over my finger to spin from the fold, using a point of contact long draw. So far this seems to be both the most consistent for me as well as the fastest. Since I was spinning more for fun that anything, I actually watched a movie while I was spinning - I will have to admit that Benedict Cumberbatch and Star Trek in one movie, works for me.
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July 08, 2015
Spinning and Dyeing, For Fun!!!
Then I started spinning up a bit more of the Merino/Cashmere/Silk. It's a mill end that I purchased at the Woodstock Fleece Festival. The Black Lamb often has huge bags of mill ends for really affordable prices. A friend of mine has some of this and was trying to figure out a way to spin it to make a shawl with. I found it a little tricky to get consistent, so I played around different drafting methods both in the above grey skein and in this bobbin. Re-carding didn't really work as well as I'd hoped. In the end, I just took the mill ends, folded them over my finger to spin from the fold, using a point of contact long draw. So far this seems to be both the most consistent for me as well as the fastest. Since I was spinning more for fun that anything, I actually watched a movie while I was spinning - I will have to admit that Benedict Cumberbatch and Star Trek in one movie, works for me.
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