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.
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