florcita
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Post by florcita on Dec 28, 2011 7:44:33 GMT
I thought I would open this part of the forum... ;D As felters, most of us, we always end up with little tufts of wool.... little pieces or roving maybe not enough for a whole project. I usually just throw everything in one box where all the little bits and pieces can be found and later used. Sometimes, I just start spinning them, adding bits to the mix every time I have a similar colour. This is one example: handspun by Marian Florcita, on Flickr And when Im done... I knit! My creation by Marian Florcita, on Flickr
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Post by zed on Dec 28, 2011 9:08:26 GMT
That's really cool I wish I could knit, I tried, but I have sausage fingers.
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florcita
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Post by florcita on Dec 28, 2011 9:39:14 GMT
I knit only the essentials. My mom is the great knitter making all this complicated patters and stuff. I just get lost. But, thanks to her wool/yarn addiction; I've been surrounded by the stuff since I was born!
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Post by MTRuth on Dec 28, 2011 17:43:07 GMT
I love the colors in your yarn. I don't knit either. But I do love the hand spun yarns. I'll have to get my drop spindle back out
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Post by Shepherdess on Dec 28, 2011 19:14:15 GMT
The yarn looks great purple and orange go so well together. I love to spin for my felt. I don't have the patience to spin up the yards needed to knit anything.
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Post by karen on Dec 28, 2011 20:30:12 GMT
Gorgeous colors in your yarn, i do knit but havent done that since i found felting lol Zed once you learn the basic knit stitch it doesnt matter if you have sausage fingers lol You spin and you'd love it
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Post by lyn on Dec 29, 2011 0:27:21 GMT
That is beautiful yarn! My daughter can spin, but I'm not very good at it at all.
I was taught to knit by my mum and knitted for years, but haven't done much since I found felting.
My daughter laughed when I told her this: When I was a young housewife/mother, it was cheaper to knit or crochet or sew garments for the family, so it wasn't a hobby but an essential job. Time wasn't to be wasted so it was the done thing to take your 'workbag' with you when you went visiting and for visitors to you to bring their 'workbags'. There were no idle hands - nobody just sat and chatted.
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florcita
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Post by florcita on Dec 29, 2011 7:09:38 GMT
Thanks everyone! I know! Workbags! My mom had those too! It's coming back though... at least amongst crafters. I go around with my bag... knitting or crocheting. Some people think you are weird... but then again, those same people are amazed when you showed them what you've made!
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Post by zed on Dec 29, 2011 9:01:01 GMT
I did learn once, but just can't hold things properly, and held it too tight. My mum knits so fast all you see is a few finger twitches and the occasional pull on the yarn to loosen it.
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Post by Shepherdess on Dec 29, 2011 13:10:08 GMT
I've knit a scarf but that is enough to know its not for me. I once sat and spun enough for a friend to knit me a shawl and that was to much.
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Post by pamd on Dec 29, 2011 14:35:00 GMT
I received a drop spindle for Christmas and have been playing a little since the kids departed on Tuesday and it is fun!! I've made a couple of small balls of yarn to use in felting. I'm afraid it would be too uneven for actual knitting, but then that's not why I'm making it, luckily. I think I like this, but, although I don't want beautiful even yarn, it is frustrating that I can't actually make it, only kind of a kind of globby mess! I'll keep practicing.
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Post by Shepherdess on Dec 29, 2011 23:21:55 GMT
Pam that kind of yarn is the expensive stuff. Once you learn to make nice even yarn it becomes very hard to make the lumpy bumpy stuff. have you learned how to ply your yarn yet? Ann
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Post by shelley on Dec 30, 2011 0:44:41 GMT
lovley yarn!
Zed, just do some hand exercises before you start, lossen your hands up and then away you go...with with my 6,7 & 8 years old school knitters!
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Post by pamd on Dec 30, 2011 0:57:28 GMT
Oh, Ann, you are way ahead of me. I did hear something about plying yarn, but haven't figured it out yet. So, question, somewhere I seem to recall hearing that you are supposed to wet the yarn once you have "spun" it. I know today my dog knocked down one of my balls of yarn and it kind of loosened up quite a lot. Am I supposed to wet it?
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Post by Shepherdess on Dec 30, 2011 2:25:22 GMT
Usually you wet it to set it after its been plied. If you want to leave it as singles the book I was just looking at says to soak in hot soapy water and then cold clear and then hot clear water. You then thack it, hit it on the counter. Then you hang it with a weight on the botom. It should be in a skein when you do all that not a ball.
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