Author Topic: My first 'production' spin (Read 7049 times)

Mel · « **Reply #15 on:** June 27, 2012, 01:41:20 pm »

That's fantastic,lovely colour!

in the hills · « **Reply #16 on:** June 27, 2012, 05:49:53 pm »

Wow!

Clever clogs.

jaykay · « **Reply #17 on:** June 27, 2012, 08:54:05 pm »

Thank you

It's now hanging, dripping, from nails in the beams over the bath.

I'm hoping my eBay win second hand ball winder will arrive tomorrow

jaykay · « **Reply #18 on:** June 28, 2012, 05:49:46 pm »

Here it is. Wound the first ball. I have to say I'm impressed, it is a lot easier than a nostepinne

The other skeins are still hanging from the beam over the Aga drying.

Mammyshaz · « **Reply #19 on:** June 28, 2012, 06:00:22 pm »

Great work

looks very professional

jaykay · « **Reply #20 on:** June 28, 2012, 06:10:43 pm »

Now I want to start knitting instead of all the other things I must do first

And I must knit swatches. Stern voice to self

Fleecewife · « **Reply #21 on:** June 28, 2012, 07:26:00 pm »

Oh definitely knit swatches jaykay - it makes all the difference, doesn't it. And of course you can rip them back down and use them in the project if you don't want to waste the spinning.

I have a ballwinder like yours - I find it helps to run it through a second time to get even tension throughout the ball, but I don't have a skein winder. Do you find the skein winder is helpful?

jaykay · « **Reply #22 on:** June 28, 2012, 08:03:28 pm »

The swift is wonderful

It spins round as you wind, so you can just go. And it's easy to keep steady tension therefore. Beats the back of chairs, which is what I was doing beforehand

I still wind my skeins initially on my niddy-noddy.

Fleecewife · « **Reply #23 on:** June 29, 2012, 11:41:54 am »

Oh yes - swift, that's the name

It sounds worth having then. Up until now I have used any nearby human arms, or failing that I hold the skein (from the niddy noddy) in one hand and wind with the other, whilst trying to prevent it all tangling up - no wonder I have to run it through twice

Oh no - something else for the wish list