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To: Lil'freeper

Ooh, pretty!

So you have a spinning wheel? I can’t remember if you’ve had that all along and I’m forgetting, of if this is a new development. How do you go about spinning the fiber? Does it come in individual colors, or was it multicolored like that to start with?


4,121 posted on 08/03/2008 7:06:33 AM PDT by RosieCotton
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To: RosieCotton
No wheel yet - they're several hundred dollars more than I want to invest at this point. I have a Spindolyn that works just fine.

The fiber comes in a variety of forms, some people start with the fleece right off the sheep - but that takes more time, $$, and equipment than I care to invest at this point, so I buy commercially combed bundles of fiber. Various folkses dye them up and sell them, most frequently as braids:

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Then what I do is split the braid lengthwise and spin it down into a single thin thread. The spindle in the pic is full of singles. After that, I ply it back on itself to make a yarn. I can do a two-ply and three-ply! It's vey vey vey relaxing.

4,122 posted on 08/03/2008 7:41:50 AM PDT by Lil'freeper (Don't taze me, bro!)
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