[Nfb-krafters-korner] learning to spin

Sat Mar 30 17:52:02 UTC 2013

I spin using a drop spindle. I really enjoy it and mostly spin alpaca 
fiber as I don't really like most wools that I've found. I am going to 
try to blend wool and alpaca soon and see if I can tolerate that any better.
Charlotte

On 3/30/2013 11:13 AM, Deidre Muccio wrote:
> Sunshine
> Last year Dixie told me to make sure when I was at a local fiber arts fair
> to have someone show me how to spin. I did, and the part I did was simply
> meld the fibers evenly together with my fingers. That was easy. As for the
> entire set up, I can't say.
> 	It's gorgeous here today and I've been out for the past few hours.
> Now that I am back in, I am going to knit. That is my pleasure, that and rug
> hooking.
> 	I listened to Ready Set Knit this morning and each time I listen to
> the show, I want to go check out the spring yarns with cotton and silk and
> rayon in them or alpaca and silk, as well as the usual yarns. I'm thinking
> of calling down there and asking for a knowledgeable person to show me what
> I want to see. I wonder if they could spare someone to do that and would
> enjoy it. Web's is having a 39 anniversary sale starting this Monday, so if
> you are a Web's fan, check them out on-line or drive into town.
>
>
> 	Deidre
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nfb-krafters-korner [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On
> Behalf Of sunshine
> Sent: Saturday, March 30, 2013 10:17 AM
> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn
>
> Dixie, does a person need to have partial vision to spin! I have a friend
> who is totally blind and tried to learn to spin and was disappointed because
> she couldn't grasp the instructions. She isn't sure if it is that she is
> totally blind or that perhaps the instructor had a difficult time teaching
> the spinning. So, if you or anyone knows of someone who is spinning and
> totally blind, could you advise!
>
> I'm not arguing with anyone; I'm just a messenger that I was instructed by
> three teachers not to pull from the middle of the ske*. I'm not a
> professional knitter like many of you, but I can tell you that I'm tolt that
> my finished products look the same as anyone else's. Smiles! One person was
> very strict with her teaching and there couldn't be any mistakes in the
> finished product! It was tough learning, believe me, but I learned a lot
> about correcting mistakes, tearing back several rows and picking up the
> stitches foring row as opposed to having to knit them on.
>
> I'll try publing from the middle, but when I did that (and was corrected for
> it) my yarn did become very tangled and it took a while to untangle it!
> Smiles! Maybe there are those who feel it's a matter of preference! Again, I
> don't know as much as most of you do, and probably never will, and I wasn't
> saying anyone was incorrect, but rather that it's what I was taught by fully
> sighted individuals.
>
> Hugs
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dixie <cobaltblueheron at gmail.com>
> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'" nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
> Date: Saturday, March 30, 2013 7:35 am
> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn
>
>>
>> As a spinner, I can say that this makes perfect sense.  When I spin
>> yarn, there are many, many, fibers that are spun together to make one
>> strand.  The ends of each of those individual fibers will most
>> certainly lay better if one knits with the yarn going with the grain than
> against the grain.
>> Against the grain would encourage more splintering of the fiber,
>> causing a more worn look to the finished product.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   Dixie
>> March 30 ~ John 3:30
>>
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>>
>> ~  @-> ~ <-@  ~
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nfb-krafters-korner
>> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Paulette
>> Vickery
>> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 8:14 PM
>> To: 'List for blind crafters and artists'
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn
>>
>> The main reason you should wind yarn balls from the outside of the
>> skein toward the inside is that pull skeins are would at the factory
>> to be pulled and used from the middle out. When yarn is made,
>> especially with yarn made from natural fibers, the  grain, so to
>> speak, of the yarn is all going in the same direction. You need to use
>> the yarn with the grain going away from the needle or hook. That way,
>> it will feel better, work better as you make the project and look
>> better. Pull skeins are made so that the yarn on the outside of the
>> skein is going in the right direct for winding. The people who wound
>> the pull skein assumed that you would use from the center out so they made
> sure to wind the yarn with the grain going in that direction.
>> Paulette
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Nfb-krafters-korner
>> [mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of sunshine
>> Sent: Friday, March 29, 2013 9:42 AM
>> To: nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>> Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn
>>
>> Hi, Becky!
>>
>> I from found that it's best to roll the yarn into balls as in so doing
>> if there are tangles, they can be gotten more easily! I also find that
>> it's best to take the yarn from the end of the skein as opposed to
>> taking from the middle. From the middle, the yarn because knotted
>> easily. Also, I've discovered that some of the yarn just isn't spun as
>> well. Most knots and beoops can be removed easily! Actually, I use the
>> point of a stylus and thus far I have been successful in removing even
>> the smallest knots! Smiles! In any case, knock on wood, my yarn products
> have not been tangled as of late!
>> Just because I said that, it'll happen! Smiles!
>>
>> Hugs
>>
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Becky Frankeberger <b.butterfly at comcast.net>
>> To: "'List for blind crafters and artists'"
>> nfb-krafters-korner at nfbnet.org
>> Date: Thursday, March 28, 2013 2:01 pm
>> Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] grumpy skeins of yarn
>>
>>>
>>> How about tips to help skeins of yarn not be so grumpy.
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>> I have had large pounders, to small few ouncers, act grumpy, tangle,
>>> knot etc.
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>> If a knot comes out the first thing I do is shake it.  The yarn
>>> before the knot and after the knot I shake and it will usually
>>> untangle itself. If it doesn't there wil be a little loop near the
>>> top of the knot near where you are pulling the yarn out to make your
>>> item. Just gently work the yarn with your fingers and it will
>>> untangle. Sometime near that top loop is a peace of yarn wrapped
>>> around the knot. Just unloosen that loop and the tangle former knot will
> come out.
>>>   
>>>
>>> I have heard that some people kind of pull the skein before using it
>>> to loosen, I assume the fibers. I have not tried this.  .
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>> There is always pulling the yarn from the outside of a skein.
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>> There is always roling the yarn in a ball.
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>> I am working from a pounder of baby yarn from the middle.So far no
>>> tangles, just one knot joining yarn done in the factory.
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>> Any more ideas how to deal with yarn tangles?
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>> Warm smiles,
>>>
>>>   
>>>
>>> Becky and Jake
>>>
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