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Upgrading the spinning

25/10/2017

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Last month I decided to move on with my spinning. I started out with a drop spindle last November and immediately took to the craft. Five spindles later I began to get frustrated with the speed limit that a spindle has. Having to keep stopping to wind the yarn on every few feet, the relatively small amount of plied yarn that a drop spindle can hold, needing to wind the singles off on to holders to spin the second one, then plying. It was taking months to make a decent length of yarn. I finally caved and bought a spinning wheel, and I’m pleased that I love it! And here it is!

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A Louet S10C with Scotch tension, double-treadle. My husband had been concerned that a wheel would take up a lot of space in our home, and wouldn’t get used. Wrong on both counts! It fits neatly in what was unused space between the sideboard and a bookcase (it will even tuck behind a door if necessary) and so far I’ve spun two skeins of plied and finished yarn and am working on my third.
Here are those skeins..
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The pink one (which tends more towards purple than the photo but I just can’t get my camera to pick it up) is a 2-plied Merino, roughly DK weight and about 200 yards in length.
The second is the first part of a pack of undyed Shetland fibre I was given for my birthday in four natural colours. The finished yarn is chain-plied to a fingering weight, about 150 yards. I’m now working on the black fibre from the same pack, and will then spin up the grey (fourth is moorit, a lighter brown) and plan to use them for colourwork.
Here is the black so far.
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As for my spindles though, they’re not being retired just yet. I have two projects in progress on those with designs in mind for each.
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