My tip for using up bits of your handspun - Tutorial - Expertly Dyed
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ธ.ค. 2021
- I show you how to utilize every bit of your handspun yarn. When plying, you may have one bobbin that finishes before the other one(s) but you don't have to worry about what to do with it. Ply it! You can ply it from a center-pull ball (made on a ball winder or nostepine) like I show in this video. The same technique shown in this video will apply to both wheel and spindle spun yarns. You can also ply different handspun yarns together and they don't even need to be the same gauge! It's a great way to create yarns you might not have intended and the results will be very unique.
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i actually enjoy having that extra left over on the last bobbin. i will bracelet ply if it is a tiny amount (less than 5 yards) and stick that into the handspun scraps bin for things like weaving and mending. but for a larger section of leftover singles, i will wind it onto my niddy-noddy to record the yardage along with the wip and then stash it in my leftover singles bin. then, when i need a pick me up, i'll grab the singles bin and play with matching singles from different projects by wip and aprox yardage to play with optical color blending. i end up with a great selection of small skeins for fun projects.
There are so many varied uses for small bits of handspun! I definitely use small plied bits for wrapping up my batts and packaging for orders. I recently used some leftover ryeland to darn up 7 pairs of socks! And I keep the leftover bits of handspun in case I need to make patches to some of my knitted clothing. Your note about optical color blending was something I thought of while making this video...glad to see it wasn't an original idea!
Ok…I thought that was what you were doing as I entered the stream well-underway. And it leads me to a question:
When I use a CPB to 2 ply, everything is used up nicely. When I use 2 bobbins however, I often end up with one empty bobbin and it did not occur to me to end it there….. (although I like this idea here of yours to ply orphans and end up with something less planned in the end)
what I have been doing is I tie up the shorter one so it doesn’t unravel and walk off with the long end, (all over the house if needs must) and make a “turkey-foot” or Andean bracelet of that as I walk back towards the wheel. Then I splice the loose ends together and continue 2-plying off my wrist until the yarn all is empty.
Oops, I forgot I had a question! The question is: is this a sound method in yarn-making or am I setting myself up for trouble ahead when I go to knit this yarn?
Yeah, I have also made an andean bracelet for plying the last bit of the bobbin. This works best when you have little yardage left and it's easy to do in public because you don't need extra tools. However, I don't like putting the bracelet down once I have it started because I have a tendency to get it tangled, plus I find it less compact than a center pull ball which beginners might need to help them keep the threads organized and avoid pigtails.
Andean plying is a sound way of plying up the end of a bobbin and won't cause any issues if you combine a traditional 2ply with an Andean 2ply to ensure you use all your handspun. :)
interested in your storage methods. I use pillow cases but I have them in plastic bins, is that ok? they are full fleeces. hope you'll respond as I don't want to ruin what I have. thanks
Hi Rosalie, don't panic! Plastic bins is fine and they're great for storage when you live in old houses since they provide extra barriers against moth infestations (and carpet beetles). Try to store them in temperature controlled areas, or at least out of direct sunlight since the relative humidity inside the container can vary a lot, encouraging mold growth. Cardboard boxes are generally fine if your house is well insulated and kept tidy.
I had to switch to plastic containers/bins after my (thankfully, small) personal stash got invaded at our old house. When I decided I wanted to relaunch my business (which I paused while I did my MA/PhD), I started with buying plastic bins so my wool would be safe. I've never had an issue with bugs since, and none of my inventory has ever been destroyed by moths. Our last house had open floorboards to the crawl space beneath the house so we couldn't stop the bugs getting in. So, plastic bins is an excellent way to keep the bugs out!
My usual approach when one bobbin runs out is to guess which remaining one has most on it, make a plying bracelet from that without breaking off and to carry on with that (I often stick the bracelet onto a kitchen-roll holder, rather than trying to use it off my wrist while at the wheel) similarly to your method, so I get more of my three-ply rather than a mini-skein of two-ply I probably won't use. I don't have a ball winder of my own because I seem to have a near-supernatural ability to cause center-pull balls to barf - I resisted the bracelets for ages because of that, but I hardly ever have issues with them if, as you say, the singles are rested. Center-pull balls, even off my cross-arm spindles, I've hardly ever had *not* barf or tangle.
Wow, that's interesting. I only had yarn barf from a center pull ball when I tried to ply lace yarn that was freshly spun--I learned to let it rest after I ruined a fair bit of it! I know there's a knack to making a center pull ball without a ball winder but I've only done it by hand a few times. I was visiting family at home at didn't have my ball winder but I used a dowel and made one like this: instagram.com/p/dMsl5rFTO5/? I found that keeping my fingers inside helped with managing the yarn barf potential. This was 100% angora.
I had a brief thought of making more of my 3 ply when I started this video, but thought it might be better to start off with a 2 ply since many beginners feel comfortable working up to more plies (I had difficulties managing a 2 ply at first so a 3 ply was out of the question!). You could do this method and more easily create a 4 ply or 6 ply! Just start off with three center pull balls. :D