sick but true.

[2eclipse]

the sheer beauty of this shawl has decided the fact that i must learn to bead.
and spin lace.

i NEED one.
and i have a %30 off coupon at the yarnery. :)

Comments

[frog-lady.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Aeolian is something I'm going to have to use for some handspun at some point. Time to spin more, perhaps.

FWIW, if you're having trouble spinning fine yarn, you should be able to get a pretty nice shawl out of fingering/dk weight. It'll just be bigger. And less delicate-looking.

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

i haven't actually spun anything except my crapwool yet. which is full of second cuts and so slubbiness is unavoidable.
and i'm trying to get enough bulky weight yarn for a sweater from it.
so it's a long haul.

i have been told that when i am done with this, everything else will be so easy my eyes will fall out of my head.
which i'm looking forward to, because i really would like to learn the difference (in practice, not in words) between woolen and worsted spinning, and how to set twist and is it really necessary, and what steps should i really be doing but have been to lazy because it really doesn't matter with the stuff i'm using.

[frog-lady.livejournal.com]

I think it's a good idea to set twist anyway. Even when spinning crapwool. I have a fuzzy sense that it helps the fibers stay put in their new arrangement, and it is definitely helpful in distributing plying twist. And if you're not washing your spun yarn now, you're not going to know what your knitted yarn will do when it's washed.

Maybe you'd want to read Alden Amos's Big Book of Handspinning, so you know what to look for when you start paying attention to more details?

[2eclipse.livejournal.com]

i actually have that book (on loan).
but i find that i have to take what he says with a grain of salt.
i also have a spinning group i go to once a month, who have varying opinions about setting twist and when it's necessary. most of them say that they do it sometimes, and that sometimes they only do it with water or wool wash, and that they almost never do any more than that....it is all very interesting. i want to find out what works.
but i will DEFINITELY be swatching this stuff and washing the swatch to see what it does. i have an endless supply of this stuff (the bag is as big as me) that i got for free. so if things are a little sloppy? i can always fix them. right now i have six skeins spun. ravelry link here (http://www.ravelry.com/people/eclipse/stash/crapwool-handspun)