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today, we are Train Spinning, my friends
(still with the eri silk / Turkish spindle. i’ve since discovered this is not actually dyed! this is the natural colour of this silk. how cool!)
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Festive green for a festive time of year!
It's an ashford blend if anyone is curious, lovely and soft, little slippery at times at this thickness but very beautiful colour.
I was so jealous of everyone's lovely advent spins, it's so fantastic to see the idea gaining popularity. I'll have to watch out for them next year!
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As the turtle grows, it consumes it's warm, wooly nest to grow it's shell.
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Started a chain-ply as-you-go spin! Fiber is merino, colorway sky gifts by three waters farm (this month's fiber club!).
Going for a twistier yarn than usual. Not spinning with a project in mind. Just enjoying the process.
#spinning#spinblr#turkish spindle#drop spindle#hand spinning#spinners of tumblr#yarn#yarnblr#three waters farm#fiber club#mirith
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I also did some spinning!
This green batt had been lying around since.. idk 1 or 2 years, but I splurged on a second cross spindle and NEEDED to spin something and this was the first thing the fell into my hands!
With this I also figured out a way to chainply on the fly - and it made me finish these 4 wonderful turtles in a record time (mappsie record time, but still xD)
The batt's fiber content is:
60% Merino
20% Shetland
20% Tencel
Then I started with these pretties I bought secondhand from Kleinanzeigen.de
200g total!
1 turtle done.
Again with chainply-on-the-fly because it's working well for me, my hands and wrist, and brain.
I've been also chipping away on the black merino with red silk which took forever, but I finished spinning all its fluff into a single which is now waiting to be plied.
Also, I spun more of this stuff which I'm pretty sure there's still some fluff left. Ah well, langsam nährt sich das Eichhörnchen, as the German saying goes.
Also also I've plied another turtle full of white alpaca and Paz coloured merino/silk mix.
And then!
Well then my spinning streak was interrupted by some
✨ nålbinding ✨
It FINALLY clicked for me, after 5 years of on/off trying! I'll show that in the next post (whenever I'll get to make it lol)
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Absolute unit. Look at this cake. 176grams and 393 yards of DK weight wool. I am so fucking stoked
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new guy very small
#spinning#hand spinning#drop spindle#turkish spindle#personal#my art#obsessing over turkish spindles rn. need more
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New skein done!
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A Yuletime tradition in my little corner of the world is trying a new fiber related skill for the week I take off work between Yule and the new year. This year my Momma surprised me with a Turkish spindle with lil sheepy cut outs. Over the moon, obsessed, in love. This is my first spin on it and I'm not doing too badly, if I do say so myself!
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Well, definitely not my most consistent spin, but finished up the corn fibre just in time to go on holiday. Let me tell you it got EVERYWHERE. I’m still lint rolling it off all sorts. Spun like silk (with all of the issues of silk), wanted to be very thin, no thickness here please! and if I were to spin it again it would be blended with something else in order to really get the best from it. Think I’m going to be saying that a lot with these “natural bioengineered” fibres
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Matchy matchy
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bus stop spinning with silk
rating: very dangerous. use a spindle you’re okay with maybe dropping onto concrete. but ALSO… very pretty. look at that silk glow!
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I'm going to finish this 4oz colorway this weekend, and then we'll see how long I can let it rest before plying...
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👉👈 What if you shared your Turkish spindles with me and I pretend I can afford to buy something?
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heya, what is that fiber ball thing? you posted a lot of pictures for someone who ia Going Through It and there was a blue-green wool on some kind of Contraption, what is it? it looks interesting. (of course no worries and no hard feelings if for any reason you don't want to answer or anything)
I enjoy talking about my yarn hobbies, so happy to answer!
Are you asking about this guy? It's a turkish spindle with a turtle of plied handspun on it!
A Turkish spindle is a bottom whorl drop spindle, with four legs. You can wrap the yarn around the legs as you spin in a pattern to make it look nice.
You can skip the next couple paragraphs if you're familiar with spinning.
Drop spindles just put twist into fiber; you attach fiber to them, twist the shaft of the spindle, and when the fiber is twisted enough, you wind that section on to the spindle, and repeat on a new section of fiber.
I used mine to chain ply a test bit of single ply yarn. "Chain" in chain ply means you make a big chain of slipknots/crochet chain and "ply" means twist it the opposite direction the yarn is spun, to balance the twist. The finished yarn shouldn't curl on itself, and should behave like a typical yarn if the twist is balanced correctly.
The turtle comes off the spindle and then it's a center pull ball.
Here's a progress photo. The colors in the wraps looked really nice, and this picture maybe clarifies how the turtle is constructed.
I've just started another layer here.
You wrap over two legs, under one, each wrap placed more outward than the previous. When the layer gets full, go under two legs and then resume wrapping as usual.
I don't have videos of my spinning, but there's plenty out there!
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