I've been longing to spin silk without problems for months. When I first started spinning and attempted silk roving, it just kept falling apart as I was spinning. What was I to do? It was while I was a a meeting of the Arizona Spinners Group that I finally figured it out.
One of the other spinners was spinning hand painted silk hankies. A light bulb went on in my head. The next time I was at Tempe Yarn, I spotted hand painted silk hankies by my friend Barbara, who also taught my dye class there. I quickly purchased the color of my choice, and then set it aside. I was being a coward.
Last month I was sitting at the monthly meeting of the Daytime Spinners of the Arizona Desert Weavers and Spinners Guild. I had just snapped the head of a bobbin off of one of my Ashford Joy's bobbins. I spent most of the meeting hand winding my ply into a ball. When I was done, I took out the silk hankie. I carefully figured out how to separate one out and began to spin. It worked!
Lovely green and gold colors |
Looking back and forth between the 2 different bobbins, I think a marriage is in order once I am finished spinning both of these lovely fibers.
Here is the yarn that I broke the bobbin with. I had forgotten to loosen the scotch tension before removing the bobbin. My son came to the rescue that night and the bobbin is all healed up. I chain played the yarn. The fiber used is a 50/50 blend of Cormo/Mohair from Juniper Moon that I hand dyed and then drum carded in some Firestar for glitter.
Happy Spinning!
Regards,
Karen
OPYF
2 comments:
LOVELY WORK! Spinning is so much fun. Are you doing the Tour this year?
Absolutely! I am on Team Superfleece and I will be contributing a prize to that group. I am also on Team Fred’s Fiber Fiends. What team are you on?
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