{"id":4925,"date":"2021-05-24T20:39:43","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T20:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=4925"},"modified":"2021-05-24T20:39:43","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T20:39:43","slug":"spinning-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/?p=4925","title":{"rendered":"Spinning project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Found the pieces that I needed for my Ashford spinning wheel, and fiber to spin. And I did a bit of maintenance on my spinning wheel as it’s been a while since I’ve done any spinning, and we’ve moved a couple of times. Things needed to be tightened up.<\/p>\n

This is the fiber I want to make into yarn for a lace shawl.<\/p>\n

\"50\/50<\/a>

50\/50 cashmere\/silk. The silk makes it very shiny, and cashmere and silk are the traditional fibers used in the lace shawls I like to knit.<\/p><\/div>\n

I am converting the roving which is fairly hefty to a smaller diameter roving, making it much easier to spin a super light weight lace yarn.<\/p>\n

\"This<\/a>

This is a brass diz with three holes in the middle. I’m using the smallest diameter to create my pencil roving.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This<\/a>

This shows difference between the original roving and the reduced diameter roving I’ll use for spinning.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"A<\/a>

A fluffy pile of organized fibers.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Empty<\/a>

Empty bobbin ready to be filled up with yarn.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"This<\/a>

This is a silk two-ply yarn I’ll combine with my hand-spun single.<\/p><\/div>\n

Since I want the two yarns to be a similar diameter, I have taped this piece of commercial yarn to my spinning wheel to use as a guide. I’ll compare the yarn I’m creating to make sure it stays the same diameter as the silk yarn.<\/p>\n

\"My<\/a>

My helper who watched intently as I started playing with fibers.<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Scooting<\/a>

Scooting closer on the couch, hoping I didn’t notice.<\/p><\/div>\n

\""oops,<\/a>

“Oops, she noticed.”<\/p><\/div>\n

\""Puleeeze<\/a>

“Puhleeeze can’t I help? Just a little?”<\/p><\/div>\n

At which point I covered him with a blankie. Out of sight, out of my project.<\/p>\n

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Found the pieces that I needed for my Ashford spinning wheel, and fiber to spin. And I did a bit of maintenance on my spinning wheel as it’s been a while since I’ve done any spinning, and we’ve moved a couple of times. Things needed to be tightened up. This is the fiber I want […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4950,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4925\/revisions\/4950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmeadow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}