Making roving by zigzagging it from a blending board batt to spin a yarn with long colour sections
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- Опубліковано 30 чер 2024
- This video should hopefully accompany a blog post I'm thinking of writing on how to spin a Tartan yarn. My goal is to spin a yarn with long colour sections, and a complementary yarn with shorter colour sections. The idea is that I will eventually be able to weave a tartan effect scarf using my two variegated yarns without having to change colour during weaving. That's the idea anyway!
If it works, I'll blog about it at - www.craftmehappy.com
I’ve read about spinners making roving out of a drum-carded batt by ‘zigzagging’ and then drafting it into one continuous length.
I want to spin a yarn with long colour sections to use as the warp in a woven scarf. I thought I’d remove a batt from my @AshfordNz blending board and try to zig-zag roving from it. This was my third attempt at zigzagging roving and it was pretty easy - much more straightforward than learning how to use a diz…
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All of the fibres I used were either merino or silk from @worldofwoolteam - www.worldofwool.co.uk
I worked a layer of coloured merino, a layer of silk, followed by a thin layer of white superfine merino. I repeated this twice more but omitted the last layer of white merino.
Fibres used (all from World of Wool)-
‘Mediterranean’ merino
‘Buenos Aires Blue’ A grade Mulberry Silk
‘Raspberry’ merino
‘Jaipur Pink’ A grade Mulberry Silk
‘Magenta’ merino
‘Clementine’ Merino
‘Singapore Yellow’ A grade Mulberry Silk
‘Lightning’ Superfine merino
Timestamps -
00:00 Introduction
00:07 Adding merino and silk to the blending board by drafting it with a blending board brush
7:46 Lifting the batt off the blending board
8:18 starting to zigzag the batt
8:51 Drafting the zigzagged batt into roving
11:05 Winding the roving into a ball
11:37 Spinning fine singles on the Electric Eel Wheel Nano 2.0
12:13 Time lapse of adding a layer to a Nano bobbin
12:49 Finished yarn from the Electric Eel Wheel Nano 2.0
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I just want to say thank you for your amazing videos! I wish I had found them when I first started spinning, just watching your drafting here would have been so helpful. I swear no one ever gets close enough to show what the fiber is actually supposed to do.
Oh thank you so much, what a lovely thing to say! I’m so glad you’ve found my videos helpful. I make the videos I wish had been around when I was learning a very long time ago 😀
Well done ❤
Thank you!
That’s so pretty! I have only made batts and rolags on my blending board.
So had I until the day before I made this video. I love finding new ways of using my blending board ☺️😀
Beautiful !!!!
Thank you!!
Beautiful as always. Haven’t really used my blending board, it’s about to get a workout now ❤
Yay! Have fun. 😊 I put my blending board aside for about 2 years because I thought it was only good for sampling and art yarns. I’m only now working out how it can work for large, repeatable sweater quantities of yarn.
Same here!
This is brilliant! Thank you for giving me more ideas for different ways to use my blending board
You are so welcome!
from Gerry- I have never removed my blended fiber into a batt. I love this. Blessings.
Thank you, I‘ve had a blending board for a few years and it only occurred to me to try this a couple of weeks ago.
Oh so clever, making that sticky Z shape!!! And your extensive “pre-drafting” seems like the key, to this new spinner.
Pre-drafting solves a lot of problems! I’ve been spinning a loooong time and I still find it a lot more relaxing and enjoyable to spin from pre-drafted fibre.
Absolutely beautiful. I am a new spinner and I am fascinated by this process ❤️
Oh enjoy your spinning journey! I’ve been spinning for 30 years and I’m still learning all the time ❤
I just pulled a batt off my blending board last night and wondered what all the various ways are you can prep the batt for spinning! I hadn't thought of this, thanks for sharing the process and results!
Oh you’re very welcome, I’m glad you found it helpful!
Wow, that came out so beautiful. I have a blending board that was hard to blend my fiber on, and I can see I was not putting the fiber on correctly, so I bought a drum carder. But perhaps I will also go back and revisit my blending board after watching this video. Thank you so much for these videos!
Oh thank you for your lovely kind words! I’m not sure that this is the ‘correct way’. I haven’t seen any one else put it on like this, it’s just the way that works best for me.
I like to draft my fibre quite thinly onto the blending board as I find it drafts much more easily later on. Have fun playing with your blending board and do whatever feels right for you. Happy spinning!
@@KathrynCraftmehappy It looked much easier to draft than what I was doing and the colors were amazing!!
This video only confirms my next purchase as a new spinner needs to be a blending board. I started spinning in August and quickly got addicted. My supported spindle came with me everywhere. In November, I went to a craft fair and tried the Nano2 and the EEW6. I took the Nano2 home with me. The chance opportunity to buy an entire alpaca fleece just a few weeks ago prompted me to get combs. I’m still hungry for more possibilities and want to be able to blend that gorgeous alpaca fibre with some silk to give it a bit more strength.
Spinning and subsequently knitting the yarn I’ve spun myself into lace scarves and shawls is my happy place. When I’m done working and the household chores are behind me, you’ll either find me at my Nano or with knitting needles in my hands.
Thank you for showing this, I was already wondering how to get long gradients. 💖
Oh that’s lovely to hear! Spinning is the most amazing rabbit hole that you could spend a lifetime exploring!
I love my blending board. I used to think that blending boards were only for creating one-off art batts but then I worked out that I could use it to turn multicoloured blends into less blended yarns and I was inspired to explore this further.
I’ve never blended alpaca and silk on a blending board but I imagine as long as your alpaca is well combed before hand and you place both of the fibres on in thin layers it should work well.
I'm new to seeing a blending board, thank you for demonstrating your technique. Your end product is beautiful.
You are very welcome!
I love it, nice idea! Please show us the other steps. :)
I picked up so many tips from you for using my blending board. Super video. Ty x
Oh thank you! I’m so glad you’ve found it helpful xXx
oh wow I love this-am going to try thid for sure
Awesome! ♥️
I love this! About how many ounces did you end up with? I’d like to give this a try.
Thank you! I put a little under 20g on my blending board each time and repeated this 4 times for my final yarn.
I'm wondering what TPI your blending board is. I'm going to get one at some point. Thank you for the video.
Hi, it’s the Ashford blending board, so it’s 108 tpi.
Thank you, I see a lot of the cheaper ones but they are only 72.. @@KathrynCraftmehappy
@@zoedoodle9824 you’re very welcome. I do like the higher tpi of the Ashford blending board. This is the only one I’ve tried but I feel like a 72tpi one wouldn’t do the same job of opening up silk and superfine merino fibres.
What type of fibers did you blend? I have a nice spinning wheel that i haven't used in a while. I need to gwt back to it.
I worked a layer of coloured merino, a layer of coloured silk, followed by a thin layer of white superfine merino. I repeated this twice more but omitted the last layer of white merino.