Ep. 2; Brother electric drum carder & Gansey knitting project

I'm showing progress on, my 'Eriskay' hand knitted Gansey jumper (sweater), following Beth Brown-Reinsel's book 'Knitting Ganseys'. Also showing my Brother extra wide electric drum carder, and carding up a plant dyed art-batt with some other things thrown in!
HIghland Colours www.etsy.com/uk/shop/Highland...
Brother drum carders; brotherdrumcarder.com/
Frangipanni Yarn: www.guernseywool.co.uk/
Knitting Gansey's by Beth Brown-Reinsel; www.amazon.co.uk/Knitting-Gan...
Buckthorn bark; www.wildcolours.co.uk/html/nat...
Sari silk; www.worldofwool.co.uk/collect...
Music: A Hope
Artist: Lite Saturation
Source: https:/freemusicearchive.org/music/lite-saturation/single/a-hope/
License Type: (CC-BY-ND)
Music: 'Growing Up' by Scott Buckley - released under CC-BY 4.0. www.scottbuckley.com.au

[@susanwhaitiri9749]

The batt came out beautiful ❤lovely colours Thank you for sharing 😊

[@magz98610]

That's really a lovely batt and the silk highlights really add a nice sheen !

[@karencraig1121]

Another fascinating video!

[@sarahmatthess7143]

Thank you! Episode 3 is going to be uploaded this week!

[@jolewis-brown6608]

A delightful video; gorgeous fibre.

[@sarahmatthess7143]

Thanks so much for watching Jo!

[@magz98610]

That's interesting how you feed the carder, I'm going to try it out ;), I have the Pat Green super card, I used to have the bigger Elsa card but I had to sell it due to arthritis in my neck
The Brother machine looks like a good one,what tpi card cloth does it have? Love 💘 you videos,I'm going to watch them all. I do knitting in the round,using the Jacqueline Fee method. Good carding and spinning to you:)

[@highlandcolours7675]

Hi Margaret, Thanks for your message. I've been asked this a lot! and without going back into my paper work to find out, my memory is saying it's 72tpi. This is the middle-of-the-road one that is an all-rounder (excuse pun) for most wools. I find that it cards everything I want it to. I don't card 100% alpaca though unless I'm adding it to an art batt. Silk tends to flick up on the licker a lot, as you can see in the video, but that's ok, I work with it. The drum is removable as you probably know, so you can buy other drums if you are doing a lot of fine or coarse work, but I'm not, so this one works for everything. If I were going to try and pick open a lot of tight BFL locks, I would tease it by hand first as it jams/slows the mechanism momentarily, and I think it would put the whole machine under too much load over time.
Thanks for writing in! I love making the videos, just am restricted by not having enough TIME! (too much spinning) Lol..