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roboticchibitan · 3 months
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I'm curious about something. Most of my personal friends who spin yarn are primarily knitters. And I'm wondering if that's a trend or if it's just my personal sample pool bias. Because to me it seems like crocheters are less likely to learn to spin but I'm not sure that's actually true. So if you're a spinner, please answer my poll. If you're a fiber artist please spread this around so it leaves my personal sample pool.
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allonsybadwolf · 2 months
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This is the fattest bobbin I have spun to date. That thing is FULL. We are at MAX CAPACITY. This is ~200g of Corriedale dyed by me. The purple dye had split into blue and red, but I'm very pleased that through the magic of ✨optical blending✨ the spun yarn looks purple! Yay 💜
Winding it onto the niddy noddy took ages. It was quite the arm workout. Now it just needs a good soak and a good thwack and this beast will finally be finished!
(previous post)
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betta-be · 8 months
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How on earth am I supposed to cope with the knowledge that I'm spinning yarn the same way people did thousands of years ago, there's a poem in that somewhere ok.
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Here's examples of ANCIENT EGYPTIAN HEIROGLYPHS and a WHOLE ASS GREEK POT depicting the same way of spinning yarn I do (last picture) like how am I NOT supposed to get emotional to this ok
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padawansuggest · 2 months
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You know you into yarn when you have headcanons about what spindles characters would particularly like, what they prefer to do with the yarn, what type of wheel spinner they are, and who has 17 projects going on at once (Anakin) vs who’s gonna focus almost entirely on one project as they go through thought spindle spinning a fine yarn, plying and washing enough of it for a blanket, immediately sticking it on the loom, and weaving a particularly intricate pattern (Obi-Wan) vs who’s the ‘I add the knots of silk and locks so that I can live in the moment and let chunks come out when they need to’ (as if I even have to say it, it’s Qui-Gon)-
ANYWAYS. I actually love yarn and think that yarn craft should be more in fics but that’s sorta like how lots of chefs and bakers make a lot of foodie fics like it’s nice but. Everyone eats. Not enough people care about Scottish spindles. Obi-Wan has 7 Scottish spindles and like 8 Turkish ones so he can make a blanket’s worth of yarn in a single go without having to unwind them and ply right away. Qui-Gon likes supported spindles and a traditional wheel. Anakin designs and makes his own electric spinners, electric yarn counters, and electric cone winders. And then he knits Padme shawls. Qui-Gon crochets blankets and keeps leaving them in the creche or outside random apartments in the temple. Obi-Wan weaves. Anakin spent 5 hours learning how to dye fiber in Padme’s favorite colours, made an electric wool carder to make batts of them, spent a solid 15 hours spinning enough for a massive shawl in lace weight yarn for his wife, knit her one, and then went back to his ADHD project hopping.
I have ideas!!!!!!
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ezekiellsplayground · 6 months
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Spinning some merino on my new Mingo&Asho glasspin.
I taught myself to spin supported earlier this year. I found fleegle style spinning to be the most comfortable on my support spindles as its a kind of unsupported style which accommodates short or long draw.
Do you like watching my spinning videos? Should I do more of my spins?
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vintage-sweden · 5 months
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Spinning competition, 1936, Sweden.
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saltpixiefibercraft · 3 months
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Am I going to be so normal about FINALLY, finally getting the hang of support swindling?
ABSOLUTELY NOT! I'm so thrilled I finally figured out the technique!! It's been driving me NUTS.
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Thankfully I have very pretty spindles to play on, I'll get a group shot of them all together when I'm back at my house in a few days.
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sewambitious · 2 months
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People that spin yarn, particularly weaving weight yarn, are too powerful. What did you sacrifice on the fiber alter to have that patience and skill? Your fingerprints?!
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affreca · 9 months
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All my handspun plying balls, waiting for me to be in a spindle plying mood.
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pastelispunx · 8 months
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Literally missing the treadle tho... And arguably a distaff for accuracy. But solid rendering, Larian Studios.
9/10 will be looking for more now.
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marcelynthehuman2 · 4 months
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I am becoming obsessed with spinning yarn 😍 I’ve been learning on a drop spindle (wheels are so expensive 🙃). It’s a slow process but so soothing and just LOOK how pretty it turns out!
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thypandatetor · 1 year
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Ok. So. I have been working on this spinning project, I got this fade pack of roving braids (unspun wool) from my favorite wool vendor, Fossil Fibers. This beaut here
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They come with 6 braids but I got 2 packs, so the same amount shown here. I have recently been fascinated by how much the colors will stray if you break them up by weight and am super into cable plied yarn because they are supposed to be resistant to pilling. And the cable ply is technically a 4 ply, so you need to make 4 singles. (Bottom left in diagram)
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We have our ply plan and our wool. Time to split TWELVE BRAIDS BY WEIGHT. And lengthwise because we gotta get those color changes
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This took me like 3 hours...
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allonsybadwolf · 3 months
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✨new spindle new spindle new spindle✨
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teezyfbby · 11 months
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Crocheting this skirt took me months fr. think about 40 hours in total. I don’t think I’m the fastest crocheter but I’m okay with that. Im trying to no longer feel the need to be quick when I do everything even though its pressured onto to me because of societes need for constant productivity. BUT ANYWAYSSS.
you can buy it here :) https://www.etsy.com/listing/1450984712/lace-crochet-maxi-skirt-in-natural-white
I lfooking love it mi. She’s super pretty. I used 100% pima cotton yarn in the colour natural white. I can’t remember the thickness of the yarn but I used a 2,5mm hook. Been tryna push this on my website I made imma post the process of me making that on here at some point I worked really hard on it. I fuck with the vision im tryna create with my crochet shit it gets me really excited. Im at Parsons right now and I feel like the more I get sucked into school the more I forget about what gets me really excites which is why it took me so long to make this skirt. I wanna start selling my shit and getting my name and brand out there in the creative world cause there’s.so much shit I wanna do like I got so many ideas fr. I wanna be a furniture designer eventually. For now. But yh. Any tips on how to start selling ya shit. I find pushing it on social media like instagram and tiktok really annoying cause I feel like the atmosphere is really competitive almost like a operate workspace but on a digital setting. Trine pasta algorithms n shit. I just wanna find real people who fuck with what I do and value things that I value you know. But yh I put it up on Etsy and thinking bout putting it up on depop. On the website I created a bidding system cause I thought that would be a really great way to establish the interest on a piece, considering id only be selling one of kind items and not creating anything more than once. I just really see it as a form of art you know and not some mini fast fashion business where I just make as many things as quickly as possible and try sell em all. But yurrrrrrrrr
Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/1450984712/
My website: https://tonithebrand.framer.website
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disgruntled-lifeform · 9 months
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Trying for consistency on the drop spindle and every picture I see online shows much thinner singles than what I'm achieving.
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Is it user error and I just need to draft thinner, or is it a lack of twist?
Maybe Tumblr just has a penchant for only sharing skinny singles and my plump little threads are just fine as they are?
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ezekiellsplayground · 3 months
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I fell into a pattern of simply filling up spindles over the last few months. So here’s the 100s of meters of thread that needs to be de-spindled, plyed, & finished.
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