Ashford Blending Board Used for Rolags, Spinning and SWATCHES!
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- Опубликовано: 10 авг 2020
- There's nothing better on a dark icky day than some color! Hang out with me while I use my Ashford blending board to make four different rolag sets. I'll also spin and swatch, so it gives you the opportunity to see each yarn finished, and knit into a swatch.
I hope it inspires someone!
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I had never heard of a blending board until watching your program. I enjoy watching your show alot,
They are pretty fun! Thank you so much!
Glad ya'll had a great time and love that John embraces your joy
Ooooohh, they look delicious, like cinnamon rolls!!! The yellow blue and pinks look exactly like cotton candy!
Cloudy overcast almost gunna rain looking days are my favorite! We dont get a lot of rain here in socal but on the central coast we get a lot of those days! Its always the most beautiful
We get far too many for my taste around here!
I love being able to see it every step of the way. It always surprises me how the yarn changes as it goes along. I think my favorite rolag is #4, but my favorite yarn and swatch number 1.
I have seen other people make rolags, but hardly ever swatches, so I thought it might be helpful
Trisha they all turned out beautiful. I especially like the last 2. They remind me of the beach and of the woods.
Oh my gosh, that looks like an amazing day to me. My favorite is the blue and gold one. I absolutely loved the way it turned out. Gorgeous.
It was a really nice, colorful day!
Hi Trish, hope you're OK. Love the Rolags how they looked spun up, Plyed & how they would look knitted up!!!
Thankyou for sharing your techniques.
You're Amazing.
Take care & stay safe.
Lots of love Jen xx 💖
They were all so pretty!!!! After a difficult day it was so nice to wind down with you. I feel like there’s an unintentional pun in there lol. #1 was my absolute favorite I think its going to make an amazing piece
#3 is my favorite.....however....#4 (the gray with the color bits) would make an awesome sweater....from a distance it would look gray, but then when you get close, you see the rainbow bits! Thank you for taking the time to show us the whole thing from making the rolags to spinning to a knitted swatch....that took scads of time...so thank you thank you! Very informative.
I ended up liking number four more than I thought I would too!
I love them all, but the pinks. ❤️
My favorite ones are the yellow and blue ones but I am a Wolverine fan so lol. Great fun watching this
I love seeing swatches! The first one is my favorite! I love the contrast of the dark blue with the light blue and pink!
It seems like the swatches are missing a lot of the time in videos. I want to see how they're going to look in a project if possible!
I want a blending board!! Such fun mixing colors. Fun watching! #2
Thank you 🤗
THANK YOU! THANK YOU!THANK YOU!. Received this month’s fiber and was completely flummoxed 😖 Now I am not only inspired, but excited ❤️
I wonder if mine will ever get here :|. I'm so glad it helped.
Hi Trish, Enjoyed watching you make all the rolags but #2 was my favorite
Thanks so much 😊
I didn’t want it to end, that was amazing Trish. Now I want a blending board, dang! I loved them all, you really have an eye for colour. I showed my hubbie your little buddy and told him you love those old horrors, we love horror movies too. Hubbie mentioned a favourite of mine...Creature from the black Lagoon...I need to check if it’s available on Prime. What was the first little floater in the pool? Squirrel? 😁 I am going to go watch your new plying vid now. I just realized that heaven today for me would be spinning huge yarns on my e-spinner and weaving with them all while watching a marathon of Fibre Love Diaries, heaven! Much love to you too and thank you🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️
Oh, I wish my husband loved horror movies too. I pretty much have to watch them alone. The first thing was a ginormous toad! Don't worry. They were still alive. I have to go out every morning and check when the pool isn't covered and get them while they're still alive 😂😂
A toad! Too funny, silly toads. I used to play Elvira Mistress of the Dark every Halloween but my hubbie grew weary of it but not me, it's hilarious :-)
I loved the three set of Rolags
That was fun! Thanks for taking us along! I really need to work on my long draw.
I had to practice so much to feel comfortable. It just didn't come to me naturally at all, so all I can say is practice!
Would not thought to blend all the different fibers together...so glad you are sharing all this with us.
Leandra💕
Oh my gosh - this is EXACTLY what i have been looking for and wondering about!! From blending to spinning to knitting - I’m new to all this, so it’s great to get a sense of how a fabric *might* look …. I’d love if you also spoke a bit about your spinning technique :) thanks for this great video :)
You are amazing and so are all of your creations.
Thank you so much 😀I did have a good day that day!
Oh I should really get myself a blending board! 😍😍😍
They are really fun!
I have that blending board. I really like having both the board and a drum carder now, so many options now!
I like it too. It's still different on a drumcarder, because the carder spreads things out more, so I like having them both.
So cool, love all the steps it takes to get to Kniting product
Such pretty yarns that resulted.
I think I like the 3rd one best but also the grey with the pinks and yellows. I have a drum carder coming soon, can't blimmin wait!!! 😁
That is so exciting! What did you get?
@@FiberLoveDiary it was one that's been made in Russia, so vastly cheaper than the ones here but people on my UK groups have been raving about it so I took the plunge. Hopefully it will be here soon as I am washing out some gorgeous rare black aplaca fleece 😬 gorgeous but filthy. Omg.
They are beautiful
Great video! The yarns came out beautifully 😍
Thank you! Cheers!
I loved watching this! Definitely confirmed that I need a blending board!
They are lots of fun! You can make roving on them too!
The blends were so pretty! I loved the one with a lot of grey in it :)
My favourites are #1 and #3 also the swatch of #4 would make a great sweater
I ended up liking number four much more than I thought, because I am not a fan of that blended top I used at all. Thanks for watching!
You have a good eye for colour combos!
This was so enjoyable to watch. It inspired me to try and get out of my comfort zone and experiment with a different drafting style
Did it go well? I'm so glad to hear when someone is inspired to try something new!
It's so interesting to see how all those 'random' colors meld together in such beautiful yarns! Love the beachy color way...but they are all awesome!
Thank you so much!
Your rolags look amazing! And the yarn you make is 🤤
Thank you! 😊
Beautiful! 💕
Thank you! Cheers!
Have been watching videos on how to make these and now you have one on it! Yah!! So pretty. Just got a spinning wheel, a Polywog and really would like a blending board now. But cost😳 maybe one day!
So hard to choose! All of them are beautiful
My favorite is the one with a lot of pink. I was glad to see the swatches and how they changed the over all look. All the yarns would be amazing woven, too!
I think that's one of the things that's missing from a lot of the videos I've seen. It's so nice to see it all the way to finished fabric. It still takes time to learn what a blend is going to do, but it helps.
My favorite is the blue, green, rust
3 was my favorite. Great video, thanks. Just found you, binge watching.
I like that one too!
That looks lovely! Hoping for a cooler day so I can also break out my blending board ☺️
I'll cross my fingers for a cooler day for you!
The yarns are beautiful. My granddaughter will sit for hour at the blending board. Your colors are amazing but I think that I liked the yarn produced by the 3rd blend. I have bits and bobs waiting to be blended, maybe later this week we can do it again. Thank you for including us in your creative activity.
That sounds fun! I've gotten my husband to make them for me before if I described what I was going for. I hope you have time to get in there and do some blending!
I love the third rolag the best. Just got my Brother drum carder. It is a standard 90 tpi. I am having a blast making batts and spining them.
It's fun how one batt will just give you an idea for the next, and the next, and then the next three, and pretty soon you can't remember all your ideas 😜😜😂
@@FiberLoveDiary 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Beautiful and great blending. Would love to see how fiber comes off spindle.
Sooooo pretty!!!!
Thank you!!
2 is my favorite. I love a mix of warm and cool. “I am Legend” or anything else with Vincent Price, Lon Chaney, Jr, or Boris Karloff. The great masters on Creature Feature tv in the 70’s.
I'm also a fan of adding a little of the "other" temp to really pop in almost anything! Vincent Price is my absolute favorite, but I also really like Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing! October was always my favorite month of TV when we had cable, because there was always something fun.
I bought the carding cloth to make a DYI blending board. Should arrive today!
Hope you enjoy it!
It's a toss up between the second rolag with the bright pink and the 3rd rolag with the blue and gold. I love the bright colors but I also love how shiny the blue and gold is.
Lately, I really like using gold as the base because all the colors look so pretty against it. I better order more 😂
@@FiberLoveDiary I would love to see pics of the other great things you create
I love to see the whole process! How did they knit up??? Now we know! Beautifully!!
Oh wow - is there no end to your talents🤷🏼♀️!!! Watching you blend was brilliant! I’ve learned so much though I have yet to try - a blending board is on my wish list. It was such an informative comprehensive video with the singles, plying and then swatches. I love them all but surprisingly for me (I usually go for the pinks) my fave is the last one - I love the textures, colours and how it swatched up! You are, as always, SO inspiring👏🙏
I was surprised how much I liked that one. I didn't like the blended top I used, but that's why I did something else with it. I ended up really liking it.
You inspire me to be creative.
What could be better than that??
A very enjoyable video. Thank you
❤️
Love the ending showing the roads, the 2-ply yarn and then the knitted swatches! Great job. My biggest stumbling block to the whole yarn creation process is visualizing what it will be (approximately) when I have yarn, or how it will knit up. Now thinking how it will weave, too! I have had a couple of flubs where the colors became so muddied either in spinning or plying, and I didn't love the yarn.
There is a great book that can help you predict how yarns will come out, and knit up. amzn.to/3ltTp0h - This is an Amazon link, and I do get a little bit of the purchase if it qualifies because I'm an associate, but it's Yarnitecture by Jillian Moreno. It doesn't matter if you buy it off the link, but it's a GREAT book.
@@FiberLoveDiary would you believe I just ordered that book. Supposed to come tomorrow! With your recommendation, now I know it will be worth it!
Eine wundervolle Arbeit. Alle sind herrlich und sehr sehr schön. Habe mir ein Blendingboard bestellt und hoffe, ich bekomme den Dreh und schöne Farbkombis raus. Herzliche Grüsse aus Deutschland. Ilona 💗💙💗💚💙💛💚💛🧡💛💜🧡❤
Blue and yellow is my fav. :)
Been planning to try out my blending board but afaid it will take too long and i might not like results. Love all yours, thanks for the inspiration! My fave is the dark w green and maroon
Just trying one small one won't take long at all, and it will really help you! I hope you go for it. If it isn't perfect the first time, you can always try again and again. I love my board for sampling.
Trish those are delicious!
Like potato chips. You can't stop!
I really liked that beachcomber looking one! I too love the horror movies. >:)
Sounds like you're one of my people!
So cool. Thx. I'm inspired. K
Have fun!
Love the video and all your color combinations. Do you have a video on how you ply off your wrist? I can't visualize that.
I sure do. Here you go! ruclips.net/video/wz-O8HSbLWw/видео.html
very interesting! I like to watch your videos:)
Thank you very much!
I really enjoyed seeing that from start to finish. What will you do with the squares you knitted?
Right now I'm just saving swatches for a crazy quilt style blanket down the road. The plan is to use black or charcoal crocheted around each and to join to give it a stained glass effect.
Such beautiful colors! I love seeing you make yarn from start to finish. Were you using some of the fibers from Paradise? They blended beautifully!!! Thanks for knitting up a swatch at the end so that we can see the finished product.
I keep those swatches so I can use a big bunch of them for down the road! and yep, some of those fibers were from Paradise. Some from boxes, and some from orders I"ve made of the samplers. The samplers are perfect for making rolags and batts!
Wow Trish, talk about a tough decision. All of them are really pretty and I’m torn between the second and third samples! Which one did you like best?
"Attack of the killer tomatoes!"
That’s it, I am pulling out my blending board., The colors you put together are amazing. Have you taken color theory or is it natural to blend those particular colors?
I took a little in some art classes as a kid, but I think it's just experience turning into instinct.
Thank you for sharing your lovely rolags 😊
I would love to know how you put your wool on the wrist for plying do you wind both bobbins together onto your wrist at the same time ? Would love to try it but don’t want to end up with a tangle so will look forward to your reply Thank you 😊
Here you go! ruclips.net/video/wz-O8HSbLWw/видео.html
Thank you it’s awesome I will give it a try 😊
My favorite rolags are the second set you made!! Did you use the sari silk from the September 2019 box(bag)?
I think the hot pink was from a box, but I can't even remember that far back now. How do YOU remember???
Fiber Love Diary I love your unboxing videos and love silk fibers so much that I have probably watched that video 3 times!! You inspired me to get a box of my own and it’s on its way!!
The blending board looks so easy and fun! How many oz approx are you getting from each blend? Looks like you pull off 3 rolags from each, but not enough to fill a bobbin, right?
I know it's crazy, but I have never weighed a set of rolags from my board, but if I wanted to make sure I had enough for a specific project, I would weigh out what I need at the beginning and then split that and make as many "boards full" as I need. Then I would grab them at random so the yarn would be random too. Hopefully that makes sense! I have made multiple sets with the same fibers, but when I'm spinning them I make sure they are mixed randomly.
What do you end up using the yarn for?
Hi! Love this video- since I am new to all this, could you tell me what the wrist spinning technique is?
It's called an Andean plying bracelet. I did a video on it last fall I think it was.
@@FiberLoveDiary Thank you so much! I will look for your video.
Please do not make me pick one color of rolags. I LOVE them all!! What fun!!!
I have been wondering what you do when you get a small amount of yarn. Three rolag doesnt give me enough to make anything on it's own. My bobbins for my spinning wheel are small and the wheel is old, so replacing the flyer with a current day jumbo flyer is not an option. I am putting away $25 a week to save up for a new wheel, but that means January or February is when I can get a new wheel. 😢 (whine whine whine😅)
If I want enough for a project, I just do several boards full of the same fibers. If I want the yarn to be more homogeneous, I then alternate one rolag from each board as I spin. It's also a good way to do gradients and stuff like that. You just slightly vary how much of a certain color is on each board, then you can go from dark to light, or whatever.
how do you get the yarn on your wrist ?
It's a plying technique ruclips.net/video/wz-O8HSbLWw/видео.html
I thought frogs could swim. I see them in my pond all the time. I like the grayish one best.
They can swim but they can't get out, so eventually they drown. The saltwater isn't good for them either but nobody told them I guess 🤷🏼♀️
Where do you live in Michigan? I used to live in Albion. My dad was a professor there.
Oh my gosh. I went to summer camp at Albion summer adventure for years. It was the best. My mom and my sister both went to college there.