I wish I could help based on the blog, but unfortunately it doesn't
display correctly in my browser--the pictures obscure most of the text.
Holly
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June Oshiro wrote:
My eyesight is generally crappy and is not well suited for seeing
individual fibers, even in a multi colored yarn. (Degenerative retina
disease when I was in college has really done a number on me!) I
can't do
that check-for-parallel-fibers business with any accuracy.
Maybe
I also think it's interesting that you and Barbara think that the yarn is
loosely or medium plied, whereas I thought it was overplied. I wonder if
my yarns are softly spun relative to what you like to spin? I will
definitely check my yarn on a McMorran balance and see how it compares to
Hello June
I'm at a loss to understand how we/I can help.I would suggest you
do quite a lot of small samples with different fleeces types - with
different ways you actually spin and so on. At some point something is
going to gel together OK that is not a technical or fast solution but
Hi June, it actually looks slightly under-plied going into the orifice.
It's definite not Over-plied.
Barbara Clorite - who's giving 2 workshops in May on Perfect Plying
Plus starting with this very topic!
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June Oshiro wrote:
I asked last week if people had experienced a loss of plying twist when
putting singles together. I thought that somewhere between when the
yarn
was in my fingers and when it wound around the bobbin, I was losing
twist.
Can you get photos with more resolution, showing what
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, M. Shirley Chong wrote:
Can you get photos with more resolution, showing what is happening at
the level of the individual fibres in your samples? That would be most
informative as to what is going on with the yarn.
I will try to do so the next time I ply, but my digital
Hi all,
I asked last week if people had experienced a loss of plying twist when
putting singles together. I thought that somewhere between when the yarn
was in my fingers and when it wound around the bobbin, I was losing twist.
I got some good suggestions (look at the yarn on the bobbin, not the
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Cathy de Seton wrote:
June
Looked at pictures now wonder did we ever have the info about how you wash
the skeins after you have plied them?
I thought I mentioned it... Maybe not in the original post? (Can't
remember now.) I usually just soak in water and then drip dry
