Beautiful abs artistic profession. Thank you for your instruction. I’m learning how to d s pin and tan across your video. Very grateful to you and yours ❤
If you have a look on my channel in live chats and this years back to basics series I have more blending board and drum carder demos plus get started on spinning 🧚♂️ thank you for the kind feedback
#1 Best demonstration! I loved…around 23:06…where from your heart you express your desire for us to have JOY in creating and encourage us to ask questions freely. You truly want us to be successful! Thank you! Your kind and open spirit is warm and welcoming.❤
Thank you for the lovely feedback. Yes as a self taught crafter I have never had access to formal tutoring from guilds. But also feel that when your first learning or been doing it for a long time you don’t want stalwarts drumming technique need to info or comments that it has be done this way and now other way and if you blend fibres into wool your ruining it or you’ll limit your use yes these facts can be true but fun first explore and learn is more important. 🧚♀️
Good morning ❤I just watched your video and I love it you are amazing I have only seen one video of your but I will be watching all of them thank you 😊 thank you
That’s great Deborah I am chuffed i could help. I often feel like I am teaching my granny to duck eggs when I do my videos but I just want to help folk to have the best start in crafting with fibre. There is so much content on here doing the same but i think sometimes It just takes that one person to say it differently that the penny drops xx
Omg that is a brilliant explanation about turning it, as I was near to giving up because I got thick buts. Thank you so very much, I just can’t wait to get out of NHS Jail aka the Stroke Ward, and start trying t9 spin again. Thank you for the brilliant info. Xx
I used to work in a stroke rehab ward. Very hard work but the rehab was very rewarding. I imagine the acute ward must be very hard to cope with. It is lovely to have this wonderful hobby to rush home to!
Hi again. I have a whole lot of your videos to catch up on. I have watched a lot of videos on how to use my blending board. None of them have shared as many good tips as I found on your video today. I've been using bamboo skewer sticks to clean mine. You can just imagine how much time that takes! Have to say, yours is the best video on blending boards that I have seen so far.
Thank you kindly I don’t often use my blending board often, mainly As I don’t spin rolags that much anymore but it’s where I started when I first started to sell my stash before I took my business to the next level. Go to that bad online shop named after the jungle lol 😂 and look for hair brush cleaners they look like miniature leaf rakes with wood handle cost a few quid for a pair. I use it to clean my blending board and drum carder.
Hi Jo, I hope you're OK xx ❣ Thankyou for sharing your expertise on the Blending Board. So much information and tips. Especially Spinning Rolags and the correct way to spin them. Thanks again. Hope you have a Great weekend Take care and stay safe Love Jen xxxx 💖 ❣🥰
tkx for that nice video, just came across by chance. Rubber bands are working very well to get a little distance btwn the sticks... greetings from Hamburg, Germany 🤗
Just use thicker needles I usually use 12mm needles or a pair of straight drumsticks. But when I filmed this video I was in the process of moving from the small room down To this unused front bedroom
Just found you today. I subscribed. You’re fabulous and knowledgeable and have a gift to impart it. I loved the pup with the postman. Did i hear the name right? I have a granddaughter named iona so my ear picks it up easily and i always smile that someone else had the good taste for the name😂
Thank you kindly for saying so I really appreciate your feedback. My videos have come along way since that blending board one but it is the ethos I stand by. I have been working professionally as a dyer and fibre artist for 7/8 years and it’s an ever evolving process even I learn new ways to do thing and explain differently as my videos go on. Yes Iona is my older dog a very stubborn 6 year old Springer/patterdale terrier cross my hubby called he name because he thought it sounded like I OWNNA DOG lol🙈 we have another now since that episode Skhadi a rescue collie who thinks she is the star of the show lol and a totally menace xxx welcome and enjoy if there are any topics you want tips for them just leave a comment 🧚♂️
Thank you so much! I have a blending board I bought for myself as a birthday present some time ago but, when I tried to use it, I got into such a muddle as there were no instructions. So, the poor blending board has stayed in it's box!! Now I know what I was doind wrong! Who knew about turning the rolag? When I have some fibre to blend (I hate neps!) I will feel much more confident to try again now I have watched your video!
I do blend your yourself sets with my handdyed fibres and blends wools and fibres. I make them up when I blend my art batts so put a smaller selection from the same blend and sell the mask it’s.perfect if you can’t buy lots of stuff at once for a selection ihave it all sorted you can use on your blending board to for mini batts and rolags. I have newer rolag videos on my channel thank you kindly for watching
Thanks for the great video! I'm going to make my own blending board, and I'm dying to have a go. It's very kind and generous of you to share your knowledge with us
Thank you so much for your lovely feedback. Wingham wool works you can find online to order carding cloth and I think the threshing barn you can find online but you may need to phone them to order. 🧚♀️
@@chattyjo1 I was lucky enough to buy a piece of carding cloth along with an Ashford flick brush and a small classic carder brush in a Facebook group. It arrived in today's post! All for £24 including delivery! Just need a chopping board or similar now. Thanks for the heads up about supplies though 👍
No I don’t but the base chopping board it was from IKEA £10 and the cloth was from Wingham Wool it was £48 then I used a adhesive spray to stabilise the carding cloth and staples
Lovely rolags. If I may share some advice, try rubbing waxed paper along your dowels to make the fibers easier to remove. I keep mine just lightly waxed for whatever I'm doing with fibers on them. I am also not shy about using 220 grit sandpaper to make them smooth before waxing. Love your demonstration.
Great tip to be honest I only used them as I couldn’t fined my jumbo needles just so happened to have to dowel as they were to go on my peg board 🙈 but a great tip
Honestly, it looks like you’re turning it in an anti-clockwise direction when you’re getting that thin draft on my screen! Is it filmed backwards or mirrored? I will definitely try that next time I spend from rolag. The last time I was spinning some Shetland blended with Falklands, it was giving me a bit of a hard time compared to the first time I had done some. Thank you so much for your mini batt technique. I wanna try that too!!
I do live chats once a fortnight on this channel and they coincide with my current topic back to basics I have been doing blending demos on them and will do another this Wednesday lunchtime using texture and best ways to blend without gunks of fibres trapping in your blending board. Thank you for the feed back 🧚♀️
@@Moq-q2v yes you could but if your doing that with a fleece your processing but you would be just as well using English combs or hand carders to align the fibres. A blending board is to blend small amount of fibres with your wool which usually most people are using rovings that have been already aligned at the mill. You could Diz the fibres of the blending board to make a simple roving then re blend it on you board that way if your looking for a more even blend. Though I would like to add that blending boards though you can make mini batts it’s sole purpose is to make Rolags/Punis and that the process of making rolags/punis when blending wool and fibres it to spin a woollen yarn ie trapping the air in the fibres as they criss-cross when gently drafted during the spinning process. If this is your only tool for blending and you doing have a drum carder I think using a Diz to keep the fibres aligned is your option rather than reblending or making rolags
Nepps can be bought from myself as a mixed dye sets or you can buy from large whole sale that sell wool roving/fibre and add ins such as these if you are in the uk there are World of wool, wingham wool work, Adelaide walker as well as smaller business like myself
It’s just really about gudging get yourself about 50g of roving and fill the board you will still see the tines above the fibre but you will start to feel a resistance to packing the fibre when the board has taken enough. Then with the bit of roving you have left weigh it and you can then guesstimate that you blending board can take that about of fibre. But it’s not a exact science as every wool fibre is different then adding textures will effect the blending.
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No wonder I battle when I try to spin from Rolags.
Thank u... That's awesome.
Yes it can be a lightbulb moment 😉🧚♀️
Beautiful abs artistic profession. Thank you for your instruction. I’m learning how to d s pin and tan across your video. Very grateful to you and yours ❤
If you have a look on my channel in live chats and this years back to basics series I have more blending board and drum carder demos plus get started on spinning 🧚♂️ thank you for the kind feedback
Thank you! Very informative! I am a beginner and appreciate a great teacher!
@@sandralynch7888 thank I am happy to hear that you feel more confident to do your self
Thank YOU!!! for sharing some of the best info I've heard. Amazing have to try all of it,,,,
Thank you for the positive feedback sometimes it feels like lightbulb moment and it feels like we’ll why didn’t I think of that. Your welcome 🧚♀️
Thank you ❤ so very much. Excellent explanation really so easy to follow. Sending good fiber goodness your way 😊 Katy from NZ 😊
Aaah that’s good news. Glad you found it a good resource 🧚♂️
#1 Best demonstration! I loved…around 23:06…where from your heart you express your desire for us to have JOY in creating and encourage us to ask questions freely. You truly want us to be successful! Thank you! Your kind and open spirit is warm and welcoming.❤
Thank you for the lovely feedback. Yes as a self taught crafter I have never had access to formal tutoring from guilds. But also feel that when your first learning or been doing it for a long time you don’t want stalwarts drumming technique need to info or comments that it has be done this way and now other way and if you blend fibres into wool your ruining it or you’ll limit your use yes these facts can be true but fun first explore and learn is more important. 🧚♀️
This is a demo I did on my live chat in October on the blending board if you would like to watch it th-cam.com/video/LarxLBFuAws/w-d-xo.html
Good morning ❤I just watched your video and I love it you are amazing I have only seen one video of your but I will be watching all of them thank you 😊 thank you
Thank you kindly. I hope you pick up lots of tips along your journey 🧚♀️
Great demonstration I always end up with thick and thin yarn and fighting with rolag now I know to turn it in a clockwise direction. Thank you
Yeah it’s a well kept secret but makes so much sense when you realise 🧚♀️
This was very helpful,especially the end,spinning from the puni
That’s great Deborah I am chuffed i could help. I often feel like I am teaching my granny to duck eggs when I do my videos but I just want to help folk to have the best start in crafting with fibre. There is so much content on here doing the same but i think sometimes It just takes that one person to say it differently that the penny drops xx
Thank you very much I found it very helpful 😊
That’s great thank you for your comment 🧚♀️
Omg that is a brilliant explanation about turning it, as I was near to giving up because I got thick buts. Thank you so very much, I just can’t wait to get out of NHS Jail aka the Stroke Ward, and start trying t9 spin again. Thank you for the brilliant info. Xx
Thank you so much, your comment really made my day
I used to work in a stroke rehab ward. Very hard work but the rehab was very rewarding. I imagine the acute ward must be very hard to cope with. It is lovely to have this wonderful hobby to rush home to!
Fiber barf.. hilarious 😄
👍👍👍 saved and subscribed
Thank you kindly 🧚♀️
Hi again. I have a whole lot of your videos to catch up on. I have watched a lot of videos on how to use my blending board. None of them have shared as many good tips as I found on your video today. I've been using bamboo skewer sticks to clean mine. You can just imagine how much time that takes! Have to say, yours is the best video on blending boards that I have seen so far.
Thank you kindly I don’t often use my blending board often, mainly As I don’t spin rolags that much anymore but it’s where I started when I first started to sell my stash before I took my business to the next level. Go to that bad online shop named after the jungle lol 😂 and look for hair brush cleaners they look like miniature leaf rakes with wood handle cost a few quid for a pair. I use it to clean my blending board and drum carder.
Thank you for this video! It is the best explanation I have heard.
Thank you very much. 🧚♀️
Hi Jo, I hope you're OK xx ❣
Thankyou for sharing your expertise on the Blending Board. So much information and tips. Especially Spinning Rolags and the correct way to spin them.
Thanks again.
Hope you have a Great weekend
Take care and stay safe
Love Jen xxxx 💖 ❣🥰
Don’t know at expertise 🙈 just practice and watching a lot of videos when I first started doing this 5 years ago 🧚♀️
tkx for that nice video, just came across by chance. Rubber bands are working very well to get a little distance btwn the sticks... greetings from Hamburg, Germany 🤗
Just use thicker needles I usually use 12mm needles or a pair of straight drumsticks. But when I filmed this video I was in the process of moving from the small room down
To this unused front bedroom
Just found you today. I subscribed. You’re fabulous and knowledgeable and have a gift to impart it. I loved the pup with the postman. Did i hear the name right? I have a granddaughter named iona so my ear picks it up easily and i always smile that someone else had the good taste for the name😂
Thank you kindly for saying so I really appreciate your feedback. My videos have come along way since that blending board one but it is the ethos I stand by. I have been working professionally as a dyer and fibre artist for 7/8 years and it’s an ever evolving process even I learn new ways to do thing and explain differently as my videos go on. Yes Iona is my older dog a very stubborn 6 year old Springer/patterdale terrier cross my hubby called he name because he thought it sounded like I OWNNA DOG lol🙈 we have another now since that episode Skhadi a rescue collie who thinks she is the star of the show lol and a totally menace xxx welcome and enjoy if there are any topics you want tips for them just leave a comment 🧚♂️
Thank you so much! I have a blending board I bought for myself as a birthday present some time ago but, when I tried to use it, I got into such a muddle as there were no instructions. So, the poor blending board has stayed in it's box!! Now I know what I was doind wrong! Who knew about turning the rolag? When I have some fibre to blend (I hate neps!) I will feel much more confident to try again now I have watched your video!
I do blend your yourself sets with my handdyed fibres and blends wools and fibres. I make them up when I blend my art batts so put a smaller selection from the same blend and sell the mask it’s.perfect if you can’t buy lots of stuff at once for a selection ihave it all sorted you can use on your blending board to for mini batts and rolags. I have newer rolag videos on my channel thank you kindly for watching
Thanks for the great video! I'm going to make my own blending board, and I'm dying to have a go. It's very kind and generous of you to share your knowledge with us
Thank you so much for your lovely feedback. Wingham wool works you can find online to order carding cloth and I think the threshing barn you can find online but you may need to phone them to order. 🧚♀️
@@chattyjo1
I was lucky enough to buy a piece of carding cloth along with an Ashford flick brush and a small classic carder brush in a Facebook group. It arrived in today's post! All for £24 including delivery! Just need a chopping board or similar now. Thanks for the heads up about supplies though 👍
@@rhiannonevans6684 ikea £10 for the one I have
Do you have a detailed video on making the board with a list of supplies you can share? Please and thank you 😊
No I don’t but the base chopping board it was from IKEA £10 and the cloth was from Wingham Wool it was £48 then I used a adhesive spray to stabilise the carding cloth and staples
@chattyjo1 thank you so much 💗 take care have an amazing rest of your day 😘 😊
Lovely rolags. If I may share some advice, try rubbing waxed paper along your dowels to make the fibers easier to remove. I keep mine just lightly waxed for whatever I'm doing with fibers on them. I am also not shy about using 220 grit sandpaper to make them smooth before waxing. Love your demonstration.
Great tip to be honest I only used them as I couldn’t fined my jumbo needles just so happened to have to dowel as they were to go on my peg board 🙈 but a great tip
I use bamboo knitting needles they are super smooth and strong.
@@bethholness5153 so do I if I could locate them 😀
Honestly, it looks like you’re turning it in an anti-clockwise direction when you’re getting that thin draft on my screen! Is it filmed backwards or mirrored? I will definitely try that next time I spend from rolag. The last time I was spinning some Shetland blended with Falklands, it was giving me a bit of a hard time compared to the first time I had done some. Thank you so much for your mini batt technique. I wanna try that too!!
It is being rolled in a anti clockwise then when you spin it later you slowly turn clockwise to get a smoother consistency when spinning it.
I do live chats once a fortnight on this channel and they coincide with my current topic back to basics I have been doing blending demos on them and will do another this Wednesday lunchtime using texture and best ways to blend without gunks of fibres trapping in your blending board. Thank you for the feed back 🧚♀️
@@chattyjo1 I might be able to catch that. Thank you! I am subscribed.
@@leslieambailey if you miss it, it gets uploaded to watch the next day so you’ll be able to watch anytime after Wednesday
Would it be possible to pass a batt multiple times over the board to get a more even blend? Like you can do on a drumcarder?
@@Moq-q2v yes you could but if your doing that with a fleece your processing but you would be just as well using English combs or hand carders to align the fibres. A blending board is to blend small amount of fibres with your wool which usually most people are using rovings that have been already aligned at the mill. You could Diz the fibres of the blending board to make a simple roving then re blend it on you board that way if your looking for a more even blend. Though I would like to add that blending boards though you can make mini batts it’s sole purpose is to make Rolags/Punis and that the process of making rolags/punis when blending wool and fibres it to spin a woollen yarn ie trapping the air in the fibres as they criss-cross when gently drafted during the spinning process. If this is your only tool for blending and you doing have a drum carder I think using a Diz to keep the fibres aligned is your option rather than reblending or making rolags
What are those little bits you call niips?
Where do you buy / get them?
Nepps can be bought from myself as a mixed dye sets or you can buy from large whole sale that sell wool roving/fibre and add ins such as these if you are in the uk there are World of wool, wingham wool work, Adelaide walker as well as smaller business like myself
How do you know when you've built it thick enough?
It’s just really about gudging get yourself about 50g of roving and fill the board you will still see the tines above the fibre but you will start to feel a resistance to packing the fibre when the board has taken enough. Then with the bit of roving you have left weigh it and you can then guesstimate that you blending board can take that about of fibre. But it’s not a exact science as every wool fibre is different then adding textures will effect the blending.
I a chat about blending rolags two weeks ago on my Wednesday live chat it’s on my timeline recents 3 videos back