{"id":174,"date":"2021-04-23T09:34:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T23:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2021-06-30T15:54:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T05:54:13","slug":"catching-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinweaveknit.net\/blog\/2021\/04\/23\/catching-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It’s been a while since my last post. It’s not that I’ve stopped crafting, so in this post I’ll catch you up with what I’ve been spinning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

I’ve been having fun lately spinning cabled yarns:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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These yarns are constructed from four singles. You ply the singles together in pairs, adding extra twist, then ply those two 2-ply yarns in the opposite direction. For the blue\/green yarn I spun the singles Z (clockwise), plied pairs of singles together S (anti-clockwise), and plied those pairs together Z. In the purple\/brown yarn, I spun in the opposite direction (singles S). I prefer to do the singles S for cabled yarns, but I usually forget when I start and just default to spinning the singles Z. The fibres for these yarns came from Southern Cross Fibre<\/a> – Grazing <\/em>on the left and Gingerbread and Sugarplums<\/em> on the right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve also been playing with coils:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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To create these yarns you start by spinning dyed top with regularly spaced large slubs (thick and thin). These are plied with a commercial 2-ply wool yarn that has had twist removed (to make a more balanced finished yarn). I started using a ginger coloured commercial yarn, but ran out of that about 2\/3 of the way through my thick and thin single. So I finished up with a dark grey commercial yarn. The fibre colourway is called Kenya<\/em>. I bought it off Etsy years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, I spun up this lovely 50\/50 merino\/silk blend as a standard 2-ply yarn:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The fibre colourway was Weathered <\/em>from Southern Cross Fibre<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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