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<p>Many fiber friends (myself included!) often ply their yarn with a center pull ball. This popular method works especially well if you only have one bobbin.</p>
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<p>You form your yarn into a center pull ball with a yarn winder, then take the end of your yarn from the inside and the end from the outside and give it twist. This creates a two-ply yarn. I've used this center pull ball plying technique a lot in my projects.</p>
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<p>But sometimes you'll hear people say, "Don't do that! It will mess up your twist!"</p>
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I Dyed Handspun Yarn to Knit a Tank Top — Plus How to Fix a Dye Pot Disaster!
This is a project where I spun the wool, dyed the yarn, knit a top, and added glass beads to it. A garment made entirely from scratch! It was a bit of a challenge and I definitely suffered from some mid-project doubt, but it was such a great learning experience and I absolutely love the way that it turned out!Read More
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I Replicated 2,300 Year Old Fabric: The Gerum Cloak
This project started with some wool…most of my projects start that way. But this project finished somewhere spectacular. It finished with the creation of woven cloth that replicates the pattern and structure of the Historic Gerum Cloak, which is housed at the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. I’ll get to weaving, but let’sRead More
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Sheep Fleece to Sock Yarn: Challenges and Results
Little did I know when my husband and I headed off to pick up eggs at our friend’s farm, that I was about to begin a raw sheep fleece to sock yarn project! Before he started working from home in 2020, my husband would pick up fresh farm eggs from his coworker at their officeRead More
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How I Avoid Running Out of Yarn by Using Math
When I got close to the end of the Arboreal sweater project that I knit entirely out of handspun yarn, I knew It would be a close call. Would I run out of yarn? I didn't want to play yarn chicken with my handspun and I had already spun the entire bump of roving, so there was no way to get more yarn for this project. This is what I did to make sure I could finish my project without running out or having too much yarn leftover.Read More
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How Much Does Thwacking Change Handspun Yarn?
I have always heard that wet finishing and thwacking your hand spun yarn can make a huge difference in how your final yarn feels and behaves in a project. Let's find the answer to the question, how much does thwacking change handspun yarn with an experiment.Read More
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Drop Spindle Spinning for Complete Beginners
Before I started spinning on my first spinning wheel, I learned how to spin on a drop spindle. With this guide, I will explain drop spindle spinning for complete beginners. You will learn everything you need to know from attaching the fiber, to finishing your yarn!Read More
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The Best Yarn Stash Organization System!
I recently reorganized my creative space and I would like to share with you some of the ideas I have to create the best yarn stash organization system I have ever used. It is functional, and can be adapted to just about any space!Read More
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4 Tips for Using Hand Spun Yarn in a Project
While working on a project with my own handspun yarn, I made a list of my best tips for using handspun yarn in a project and getting great results.Read More
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I Joined Spin Together 2019! (It turned me into a monster)
For years Spinzilla was the monster of the spinning competitions. See what I did there? Run by the National Needle Arts Association, TNNA, Spinzilla was a world wide spinning competition where spinners joined teams, locked themselves, and their spinning wheels in their homes, and tried to spin the most yardage humanly possible in the spanRead More