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Do you want to learn to spin cotton but are nervous? PLY readers give you tips and tricks for getting started.
Starting with clean fiber, Roy takes us through the whole process of making a batt starting with pre-processing, filtering, weighing, feeding, building, removing, and cleaning. Even seasoned carders will learn a new trick or two.
Drum carders are big and costly pieces of fiber equipment that deserve to be taken care of. Roy, Clemes & Clemes tool maker, walks us through how to adjust our drum carders to get the best results along with how to maintain them so they last a lifetime (and beyond).
Drum carders are versatile tools that you can use to make both woolen batts and worsted-style batts! Roy Clemes, maker of Clemes & Clemes tools, talks about and walks you through both and how they compare.
Roy Clemes, of Clemes & Clemes, joins Jacey for some tea and talk. They talk community, carders, family, and spinning.
Jacey, Zaphod, and Emily talk about texture via fiber prep with a focus on tweed!
Want an easy way to introduce texture into your spinning? Emily introduces and walks you through building tweed batts on a drum carder using wool, locks, silk noil, and more. She talks about color, material, amounts, and carding techniques with lots of joy and personality.
Want an easy way to introduce texture into your spinning? Emily introduces and walks you through building tweed rolags on hand cards using wool, locks, silk noil, and more. She talks about color, material, amounts, and carding techniques with lots of joy and personality.
Emily takes us through spinning tweed yarns from batts and rolags. She spins woolen, worsted, thick, thin, 2-ply, and 3-ply to show us the differences in how the tweed effects affect the yarn’s look.
The author shares her journey in the fiber arts, which started with weaving and then led to spinning. She also talks about how she adapts her crafting to her physical disability.
Cotton is an amazing and ancient fiber. Spinning cotton is a joy, but it is different than spinning wool, silk, or flax. Cotton is a short fiber – depending on where it was grown, staple length can range from as long as 2 inches to much less than an inch. This shorter staple is not a bad thing; it just makes it a little different and sometimes a little more difficult to spin with consistency. This article covers tips for spinning cotton and specifically spinning yarn for the Boll to Bolt Curtains.
PLY readers help you deal with managing twist when creating singles yarns.
