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Finally finished plying my TDF spin.
Definitely not the best spinning I've ever done, but it's been probably 7-8 years since I spun on a drop spindle.
I got 218.5 yards /199.79m to 131 grams, making the overall weight about Worsted(?) (Aran?)
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drop spindle yay!
first attempt after about half an hour (my shoulders ache now)
theres a chunky mess hidden in the middle 😁
Bubble crepe! White Cormo plied first with teal Corriedale and then with purple. (Fibre looks much darker spun than loose.) I started this just to see if I could do it, but I actually really like the texture and want to try knitting with it.
28m/27g 100% wool, crepe-plied (a two-ply yarn plied with a opposing singles)
just had the urge to try out a short spinning video this morning 𖦹
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Back of truck plying, day 2
I demonstrated three types of spindle-spinning at an event recently (slightly over an hour of each one and then my arms would tell me it was time to change) and the different reactions from members of the public were quite fun.
1) Short suspension, low whorl (well, not much of a whorl at all, but weighted towards the bottom), with distaff - people mostly focused on what my hand was doing to the spindle. This one seemed fairly logical to onlookers.
2) Supported (tahkli), from the cloud - people mostly focused on the yarn in progress. They tended to watch for a little longer than with the first one.
3) Long suspension, top whorl, no distaff - people overwhelmingly asked "how does it keep spinning?". Like, over and over and over again. The fact that it was still spinning several feet away from my hands caught everyone. I would show them how I start it with my fingers and that's the only force and there are no other moving parts and it slows down eventually, and they would still ask what else made it go!
It was a very fun day. These were the three spindles I used, plus the lego one mentioned below. The white dog fur was on the tahkli.
Other notes from the day:
A) I had my other spindles on display and the lego+pencil spindle absolutely engaged people the most, much more than fancy carved ones did. I would highly recommend making something similar (colourful, cheap, robust, unexpected - it makes people want to reach out and they feel they can reach out) if you are spinning for the public outside of reenactment.
B) There were three of us for this part of the stall and we each used different tools (stick, spindles, modern saxony wheel; we didn't plan it this way, this is just who turned up!) which was very helpful when explaining some development of spinning and what each tool actually does. It would have been nice to have a demonstration of stages of fleece prep as well.
Ok I know TDF is over.
I couldn't work on this yarn this past week because I had skeined the two colors and had to leave them home to dry.
I intended to ply them while I was home, but after winding them into balls, I had no more time to play with string.
So against my better judgment, I have brought them and a spindle into the truck and have started plying.
This is all I'm doing tonight because I drove 10 hours, I've been up since 04:30, and have to get up at that time tomorrow, too.
