Chain-ply as you spin on a Turkish Spindle
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2013
- 2 new tricks with your Jenkins Turkish Spindles! (Shown with an Aegean.)
Wanda shows a quick, easy way to make the leader (courtesy of Judith MacKenzi), followed by the technique which Wanda developed to chain-ply the singles even as you spin them.
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You have officially blown my mind. This is amazing! I'm a very new spinner but I love my Turkish spindle so much more than the other types I've tried. Thank you for helping me level up my skills! 💜
I hope you're still having great success with your Turkish spindle!
Excellent video. The camera angle was perfect. Also, this is the first video I have found that clearly shows how to make a half-hitch. I'm about to get my first Turkish and this gave me even more heart to forge ahead! Thank you for the instruction and the spindles!!
Thank you! This is the first time in my life that someone has said I sound like someone they know. I'm tickled that it sounds like your grandmother!
As for the tail: So far when I've used this method with regular singles I've not had a problem with finding the tail. But then, I always wind-off from the outside of the turtle to avoid the potential of a tangled mess when the center collapses. I prefer to use a winding ball - that's a video for another time. :)
Wanda
I came for the chain plying tutorial, I stayed because of the ingenious leader tutorial. I just started spinning about a month and a half ago, did my first 2-ply a week ago and am going to try chain plying soon.
Lila O I hope you have great success with your chain-plying! Have a blast on your spinning journey.
Interesting vid; have been spinning a few months but did not know this was possible :) thanks for sharing
+Margaret Ellis pity the sound is not so good; wish I could hear what is being said;
+Margaret Ellis, thank you for watching. Have you tried this method yet? I'm sorry that you weren't able to hear. I'll try to speak up better in upcoming videos that I'm planning.
Wonderfully informative and clear video, I recently got two Turkish spindles for my birthday so will be giving this a try! Thank you.
Thank you! Have a blast spinning by POF.
Pretty cool cast on!!! Thanks!!
wow! ply as you go! so clever. well explained and demo’d. tx for posting.
Thank you Maggie!
I spin supported, and it took a while for me to figure out how to chain ply on there. But now I want to make a turkish spindle I can use supported. After all, it must be magical to slip the arms out of your finished ball and know you're done.
I'll never spin another 2-ply yarn unless I really have to (maybe fractal yarn). 3-ply yarn is so much smoother.
This is so smart! Can't wait to try it. Blessings.
Thanks! Don't give up.
Have fun doing it.
Chain-plying makes a nice rounded yarn. You should definitely give the technique a whirl. :)
Use an arm! Brilliant! I've been sticking the loop back onto the shaft and then attaching the single with a half hitch on top - it has a tendency to get tangled. Can't wait to try this.
Love it, Wanda! What a nifty way to make a leader! I've been using your technique to roll the fiber on my thigh for a leader. I love this Aegean, by the way :)
Love this leader technique, time to try navajo plying on a spindle again! Looks much easier than on a regular spindle.
THIS IS LIFE CHANGING thank you!!
Thank you!
Oh my goodness, v that is so, so clever! Why didn't I think of it? Thank you so much for this video!
Thanks! I'm glad you found it, and hope you have great success with plying on the fly.
Thanks, Wanda! This is a wonderful technique. I bought one Ed's Aegean Spindles a number of years ago, and have been so happy with it! I can't wait to try this method. :)
Thank you, Teri! Have fun adding this method to your spinning skills.
Very clear demonstration, thank you. I do just wonder how easy it is to grab the tail of that leader from the centre, once the cop is off the spindle, as there isn't much tail there.
By the way, I love your voice! I am English, but nevertheless find your voice reminds me of grandmother!
Wow, this is pretty neat.💖
Nice! I;m looking forward to trying this for some of my long colour transition fibre. Thank you!
Thank you, just what I was trying to figure out.
Thanks for watching! Keep practicing and you'll soon love to chain-ply on the fly (POF).
Amazing!
This is so smart
brilliant
Very clever, lady!
Hi, Thankyou so much for this video tutorial on chain plying on a Turkish Spindle. I'm a complete newbie to Spinning, have only been doing it for a couple of months(well almost). I have seen this technique on a Spinning Wheel .
This is the first time ive seen it on any type of Drop Spindles.
Will definitely be trying this out .
Thanks again.
Take care & stay safe.
Thanks for watching Jennifer! It's great that you're exploring various methods for spinning as a new spinner. Enjoy your spinning journey!
@@JenkinsWoodworking Thankyou for your reply. I am enjoying Spindling & love watching to explore different ways to use the Spindles.
Take care & stay safe.
Love Jen xx
England xx
I'm having trouble trying to do the "Butterfly"
Strangely enough i can do it when I'm Weaving , but not on the Spindles. I seem to be all fingers & thumbs.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Take care & stay safe.
Hi Jennifer, have you been able to get the feel of the butterfly technique yet? Are you perhaps over-thinking the process? I sure did when I first tried to learn. See if muscle memory for butterflying kicks in if you turn your mind to using it when weaving.
Serene Spinning,
Wanda
Great tutorial! Like another commentator, I like the way your spindle spins so smoothly. Haven't tried spinning yet, as I am looking into the various techniques and types of spindles before investing in supplies and tools. I definitely am interested in Turkish spindles__they seem more functional but are mostly very beautiful! 😺
Thanks for the comment! Spinning can be wonderfully therapeutic and purposeful. I hope you take it up. Turkish spindles are wonderfully functional and beautiful, plus you can make beautiful "turtles" as you're spinning.
For inspiration please check out our YarnTools forum on Ravelry. Right now the Tour de Fleece is happening with lots of people chatting about their daily spinning.
That is great could I chain-ply cotton off my Charka. Thank you great video.
Arrrrrgh! I really REALLY need a Jenkins spindle!!! But I can decide which one... is there anywhere I can email to discuss? So hard to decide...
Also, I really loved the video and well I could see, been spinning for decades on a wheel, maybe 5yrs on a huge clunky turkish, but had never figured put how to switch directions from spin to chain ply! Can't wait to try!!!!!
Thanks for wanting a Jenkins! We're working on getting our new website up and running with a working Cart - eta early April.
You may send an email to jenkinsinfo@gmail.com which is the temporary email while we're working on setting up the new website.
Cheerful Spinning,
Wanda Jenkins
@@JenkinsWoodworking woooo! Can't wait! Maybe I'll have narrowed down my preferences by then.🙃
Interesting.
What's the benefit of Navajo plying while spinning the single? So far all I've ever seen done is make the single first, then take the ball (or pile) and attach the single and ply from there. Of course, I've only known of this being done on either a traditional Navajo spindle or on a wheel so the plied sections are really far apart by comparison to what you're doing here.
Do you manage a longer ply when working without trying to explain and keep the work in the shot? I know talking, tracking camera frame, and working all at the same time often changes how you work even if you've been teaching a long time.
Thank you for the video! The trick for creating the leader is definitely something I'm going to try in the future!
Thanks for asking, Katie. The benefit of plying as you go is that when you've spun the last bit of fiber into a single then that last 3 - 4' of single is plyed. Violá, you're finished.
It's more of a mental advantage: we enjoy the spinning part but try to get through the plying as quickly as possible so we can get on to the new fiber that's calling. This way we know that when we finish spinning the fiber we're almost completely done.
Thank you for replying! It makes sense thinking of it that way, though I'm not sure if I'll have the coordination to manage this for a while yet.
Thanks! The walnut Aegean used in this video is the one I claimed from the first six that Ed made.
JenkinsWoodworking what weight is the spindle? just curious. it spins really really well. what is this magic?? lol.
Great video, I was wondering about plying.....now I HAVE to buy a Turkish spindle as it looks so convenient to park the chain loop while continuing plying, or can this be done on a standard drop spindle?
this is witchcraft! 😍
The problem with Turkish spindles is you can only thumb spin them, not thigh spin them. They're horrid little things. :(
That's the first time I've heard Turkish spindles described as horrid little things. Are you aware that there are different sizes? Ed makes a large Phoenix that can be thigh spin. Granted it takes practice.
It's wonderful that with the internet a person can access many types of spindles and choose what works best for an individual's preferences.