Now, granted, I've touched a spinning wheel exactly twice in my life, but I'm amazed at how effortless this looks! I have a lot of practicing to do, I think! Thanks for posting this!
This is very informative. Perhaps you could make a DVD video, you teach well and there is always more room on my shelf. Maybe try contacting interweave and see what they would say.
I can understand :) to be honest my spinolution is the first wheel I got it to work on, I will try others later.. But I was so please to finally get long draw to work for me.. Ive made about 400g of aran weight yarn.. My plan being to make about a kg or so to then start knitting me up a jumper, my long term spinning goal .. I started spinning - like most of us, to make yarn to knit or crochet with - but I got side tracked by just looking at the pretty yarns I made.. So, I had set myself a long term plan of make me a jumper. I want to have a jumper I can look at and wear and go I truly uttlerly made this. I made the yarn, I made the jumper, and almost certainly I'll have tweaked the pattern so can argue I made the pattern too, Im determind to get there.. Doing it short draw didnt seem like a good plan, Im not hugely fast at long draw, I mean its not like 100g appears in 20 mins which you sometimes get the illusion it will, but having to stop and pull chunks off my top to put over my finger slows it down so I do a handful of chunks to work through and then move the bobbin point, and pull off the next bunch of chunks.. I have a 32oz bobbin so, I can fit a lot of yarn on it.. I went for 300g so far, as i was concerned as to how much fitted on my ball winder later, but being short draw and denser, I ddint really want a 1.5kg jumper.. I wanted a warm but reasonable weight jumper and long draw will give me a lighter fluffier yarn which will help. Did you give up on spinning completely?
Liz Kimber wow...that sounds fantastic. Definitely you've learned and KNOW a lot. I made some really pretty things with the yarn I made, well got really nice skeins and color combos. Anyways, sounds like you really enjoy spinning. Im so glad for you., YES, i have gave it up Completely and never going back to spinning, I prefer knitting and ONLY knitting. I think i had an allergy to the roving too, cause i would get terribly itchy etc, never with wool, but roving was awful, maybe it was the dyes too. i have no idea.
I think like lots of things everyone has their thing.. So far Ive decided spinning seems mainly my thing, I always hated knitting, loathed it, was forced as a kid and I guess all that hate just went right in there.. as an adult I taught myself crochet, took to it like a duck to water, loved it.. then I bust my knee, got insomnia, watched lucy neatby doing double knitting, fell in love, discovered continental knitting, eg pick knitting, love that compared to british throw knitting which helped, now I will happily knit.. I also tried weaving, and thats kinda fun too, but spinning, spinning is so my thing.. almost to the point if i never make stuff with it, im happy just to make yarn.. of course I now have a stash of yarn Ive made and never done anything with.. but.. hence I wanna do this jumper, I want even just 1 person to say "Hey, where did you buy that" and go.. "I span the yarn, and I knitted it, thank you" .. :D
Now, granted, I've touched a spinning wheel exactly twice in my life, but I'm amazed at how effortless this looks! I have a lot of practicing to do, I think! Thanks for posting this!
Thank you! I've been trying to figure out why I was having no luck spinning long draw. This has answered more than one question I had.
I want a Matchless! So beautiful!
"hold the fiber as if it were a little baby bird"
Great advice! Thank you, you're video has been a huge help.
What a wonderfully done video and very instructional! Thank you!
Great video. Thank you for sharing your talent.
Yes, excellent tutorial and I like the spinningwheel!!! Which wheel is it??
Great video! I'm a new spinner - this is so helpful!
Very helpful! Thank you for making this!
Great spinning wheel!
This is very informative. Perhaps you could make a DVD video, you teach well and there is always more room on my shelf. Maybe try contacting interweave and see what they would say.
Beautiful! Thank you!
Thank you, great demonstraton!
Okay, I cringed every time the toe of your sneaker kicked into the spokes of the wheel to get it going.
This is very helpful and informative. May I ask what kind of spinning wheel you have?
Its schacht matchless.
excellent did. thanks!
I need to but it! who knows where? Thank you
this is really hard to do , I'm trying for 2 hrs already..veyr had.
Ive found that spinning from the fold has helped me get into the swing of long draw
Liz Kimber LOL..thanks so much for your reply. I have since SOLD my machine like 2months ago. I couldn't take it anymore. hahahaha....
I can understand :) to be honest my spinolution is the first wheel I got it to work on, I will try others later.. But I was so please to finally get long draw to work for me.. Ive made about 400g of aran weight yarn.. My plan being to make about a kg or so to then start knitting me up a jumper, my long term spinning goal .. I started spinning - like most of us, to make yarn to knit or crochet with - but I got side tracked by just looking at the pretty yarns I made.. So, I had set myself a long term plan of make me a jumper. I want to have a jumper I can look at and wear and go I truly uttlerly made this. I made the yarn, I made the jumper, and almost certainly I'll have tweaked the pattern so can argue I made the pattern too,
Im determind to get there..
Doing it short draw didnt seem like a good plan, Im not hugely fast at long draw, I mean its not like 100g appears in 20 mins which you sometimes get the illusion it will, but having to stop and pull chunks off my top to put over my finger slows it down so I do a handful of chunks to work through and then move the bobbin point, and pull off the next bunch of chunks.. I have a 32oz bobbin so, I can fit a lot of yarn on it.. I went for 300g so far, as i was concerned as to how much fitted on my ball winder later, but being short draw and denser, I ddint really want a 1.5kg jumper.. I wanted a warm but reasonable weight jumper and long draw will give me a lighter fluffier yarn which will help.
Did you give up on spinning completely?
Liz Kimber wow...that sounds fantastic. Definitely you've learned and KNOW a lot. I made some really pretty things with the yarn I made, well got really nice skeins and color combos. Anyways, sounds like you really enjoy spinning. Im so glad for you.,
YES, i have gave it up Completely and never going back to spinning, I prefer knitting and ONLY knitting. I think i had an allergy to the roving too, cause i would get terribly itchy etc, never with wool, but roving was awful, maybe it was the dyes too. i have no idea.
I think like lots of things everyone has their thing.. So far Ive decided spinning seems mainly my thing, I always hated knitting, loathed it, was forced as a kid and I guess all that hate just went right in there.. as an adult I taught myself crochet, took to it like a duck to water, loved it.. then I bust my knee, got insomnia, watched lucy neatby doing double knitting, fell in love, discovered continental knitting, eg pick knitting, love that compared to british throw knitting which helped, now I will happily knit.. I also tried weaving, and thats kinda fun too, but spinning, spinning is so my thing.. almost to the point if i never make stuff with it, im happy just to make yarn.. of course I now have a stash of yarn Ive made and never done anything with.. but.. hence I wanna do this jumper, I want even just 1 person to say "Hey, where did you buy that" and go.. "I span the yarn, and I knitted it, thank you" .. :D