This is brilliant and thank you so much for sharing this technique. I've been putting off spinning a 'questionable' blend and I look forward to more tricks for how to turn these blends from dishwater grey to beautiful rainbows! I haven't got combs yet but I think that will be the next item to add to my spinning tool box.
Oh thank you so much for your lovely kind words! It means a lot to me. Honestly, combs are really not the best tools for preparing vertical blends. I was just intrigued to see the effect it would have on this merino/bamboo blend as I was hoping it would give me a gradient. One of the best ways of spinning a multicoloured blend like this is to just tear off strips that contain a reduced number of colours and then shuffle them around so that you are spinning from a different group of colours every time. If you split it down enough so that you don’t have too many colour combinations that make brown you can get a really pretty, variegated yarn.
I was demonstrating that when you comb a merino and bamboo blend it allows you to thinly draft off first ALL of the merino fibres and then a mixture of merino and bamboo fibres. When the bamboo fibres are a different colour it gives you a gradient single which, when you chain ply it, knits up into a variegated yarn. This is just one of dozens of techniques that I’ll be sharing on different ways to prepare multicoloured blended tops.
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This is brilliant and thank you so much for sharing this technique. I've been putting off spinning a 'questionable' blend and I look forward to more tricks for how to turn these blends from dishwater grey to beautiful rainbows! I haven't got combs yet but I think that will be the next item to add to my spinning tool box.
Oh thank you so much for your lovely kind words! It means a lot to me.
Honestly, combs are really not the best tools for preparing vertical blends. I was just intrigued to see the effect it would have on this merino/bamboo blend as I was hoping it would give me a gradient.
One of the best ways of spinning a multicoloured blend like this is to just tear off strips that contain a reduced number of colours and then shuffle them around so that you are spinning from a different group of colours every time. If you split it down enough so that you don’t have too many colour combinations that make brown you can get a really pretty, variegated yarn.
Do you sell the comb blanks? I live in a very small town and have no way to have them printed.
I’m really sorry but I don’t sell the comb blanks.
whats the purpose of arranging the bamboo fibres to be at the end of the spinning piece?
I was demonstrating that when you comb a merino and bamboo blend it allows you to thinly draft off first ALL of the merino fibres and then a mixture of merino and bamboo fibres. When the bamboo fibres are a different colour it gives you a gradient single which, when you chain ply it, knits up into a variegated yarn.
This is just one of dozens of techniques that I’ll be sharing on different ways to prepare multicoloured blended tops.
@@KathrynCraftmehappy very clever, thank you