#plying

[ezekiellsplayground]

Within my fiber communities I often see people asking about how to chain ply on a spinning wheel, with e-spinners seeming to give the most amount of difficulty for some reason. So I’ve made a little explanatory video of how I get a smooth chain ply on my Daedalus e-spinner.

[iplaywithstring]

Gradients are so fun to spin

[skeksis98]

progress today, got too sleepy to finish this last night

[dinosaurcharcuterie]

Tour de Fleece Day 21:

I took a rest day yesterday, am still feeling under the weather from traveling, and my neck is acting up again.

I figured I'd just... Ply some yarn. By hand. On the drop spindle that hates me, because now there's two threads and it won't fall as much. Truly a fool proof plan.

The good news is, my neck feels better. Might be hand spinning is more ergonomic, neck wise, than staring at a screen. I've also plied most of the singles in the house. Definitely all the singles from spindles I wasn't using within a 2m radius of me.

The bad news is, I spun for four and a half hours, I still don't know how to ply without stuff tangling, and the spindle still loves the floor more than it loves spinning. Apologies to my downstairs neighbor, I hope no one was trying to sleep in the living room.

The half-printed spindle is awaiting reassembly and I'll put my yarn on my lil baby niddy noddy for skeining tomorrow, but tonight, I think I've done enough.

[notquitebilateral]

I like spinning. I do not like plying as much.

I will be winding this off onto the niddy noddy and then dealing with the four other bobbins I let back up.

[knittingontheroad]

Ok I know TDF is over.

I couldn't work on this yarn this past week because I had skeined the two colors and had to leave them home to dry.

I intended to ply them while I was home, but after winding them into balls, I had no more time to play with string.

So against my better judgment, I have brought them and a spindle into the truck and have started plying.

This is all I'm doing tonight because I drove 10 hours, I've been up since 04:30, and have to get up at that time tomorrow, too.

[comfortabletextiles]

Plying the wool washing experiment.

Extremely satisfying

Also this pain in the ass plying set up

[geritarish]

Attempting to ply m'y wool for the first Time. This is so hard.