Today’s #teamwow challenge was to push yourself out of your comfort zone – so I slipped the drive band onto a smaller whorl! IT’S SO FAST! But weirdly much easier.
I woke up stupidly early this morning. Rather than potter about doing nothing much, I started spinning my Hebridean/bio-nylon custom blend which I haven’t touched til now, at this higher speed. And somehow it seems to suit me better! It’s like the extra speed matches my drafting, and it just flows better. I was expecting to spin finer, because that’s what all the experts say – use the smaller grooves in the whorl to spin a finer yarn – but I wasn’t expecting it to be so smooth and free from lumps:
I… don’t know how to weave.
My Traddy’s flyer has only 2 grooves on its whorl, though I’ve read that it should have 3, and a quick shuftie on Google tells me I could get a 4-speed replacement flyer. Hmm… I do have a birthday coming up. Though I did intend to surprise myself with an Electric Eel Nano… And then there’s the lovverly Shiels wheel I’m watching and salivating over…
I skeined the Tub of Joy single, and it’s soaking as I write. Here it is just before I submerged it:
So pretty, in fact, that I’m tempted to leave it as a single. Currently perusing The Spinner’s Book of Yarn Designs for info – and kinda regretting that I didn’t switch to the smaller whorl before I spun this. BRB…
Annnnnd I’ve tried fulling the single as described in SBYD, plunging it successively into hot, then cold water. Of course, it might not be an animal fibre (though I’m pretty sure it’s merino/silk), or it could be superwash-treated, or I might just have made myself a pretty brick <:-(
Tous les jours à tous points de vue je vais de mieux en mieux. Via a series of catastrophes, of course.
Allons-y!
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