Comments on: 2007 Craft summary, and a challenge for 2008. http://cherylkatz.org/2008/01/01/2007-craft-summary-and-a-challenge-for-2008/ From scratch. Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:27:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Cheryl http://cherylkatz.org/2008/01/01/2007-craft-summary-and-a-challenge-for-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Cheryl Wed, 09 Jan 2008 06:21:55 +0000 http://cherylkatz.org/2008/01/01/2007-craft-summary-and-a-challenge-for-2008/#comment-14 That is a really interesting idea. I doubt I'm going to ply on the ol' dude, though, because his bobbin so SO SMALL. I think I'm going to keep on with the challenge just for the sake of doing so, but I am on the verge of calling it a day and chucking the wheel (or offering it up for sale to a spinner who might have experience refurbishing and restoring wheels, or who knows a woodworker who does.) I don't know. I really like the flower pot/ball idea. I don't have a tensioned lazy kate either, so that is certainly one solution. That is a really interesting idea. I doubt I’m going to ply on the ol’ dude, though, because his bobbin so SO SMALL. I think I’m going to keep on with the challenge just for the sake of doing so, but I am on the verge of calling it a day and chucking the wheel (or offering it up for sale to a spinner who might have experience refurbishing and restoring wheels, or who knows a woodworker who does.) I don’t know.

I really like the flower pot/ball idea. I don’t have a tensioned lazy kate either, so that is certainly one solution.

]]> By: guinevereanne http://cherylkatz.org/2008/01/01/2007-craft-summary-and-a-challenge-for-2008/comment-page-1/#comment-13 guinevereanne Sat, 05 Jan 2008 06:56:27 +0000 http://cherylkatz.org/2008/01/01/2007-craft-summary-and-a-challenge-for-2008/#comment-13 I haven't managed or tried to do it yet, but perhaps some day. Anyway, I have a very old wheel with 2 bobbins, 1 chipped and 1 ratio. You can navajo ply (one of my favs!) however you can also skein the yarn off the bobbin (you would probubly need 2 swifts or skein makers) and spin from the two or more skeins. You can also do a center pull ball. You wind the yarn around something (or else have a lovely ball maker) and using both ends (1 from the middle and the other from the outside) you can ply that way. And I have recently read about someone who makes felted balls (I think any type of ball would work, golf ball size)for herself and her cats. She winds the singles aroudn the ball, creating a ball of yarn with a felted ball center. Then she gets one of those pots. You know the kind, people plant flowers in them. They have a hole in the botton for water to drain out. Anyway, she threads the singles through the hole, places the pot upside down on the floor with the balls of yarn underneath and plys that way. As she pulls on the singles as she plys the ball unwind and go throug hthe hole. I would assume it would keep the singles from tangeling too badly, and as long as the pot was heavy (clay) and stayed in place it would work well. I beleive the article I read with this kind of plying was about a woman who did a drop spingle, but it would most certainly work for a wheel with 1 bobbin. I hope that helps a little. Perspnally I love navajo plying and would do it all the time. However it really eats up the yarn and sometimes you want the barber pole effect (affect?) of a two or more ply. Guin I haven’t managed or tried to do it yet, but perhaps some day.

Anyway, I have a very old wheel with 2 bobbins, 1 chipped and 1 ratio. You can navajo ply (one of my favs!) however you can also skein the yarn off the bobbin (you would probubly need 2 swifts or skein makers) and spin from the two or more skeins. You can also do a center pull ball. You wind the yarn around something (or else have a lovely ball maker) and using both ends (1 from the middle and the other from the outside) you can ply that way.

And I have recently read about someone who makes felted balls (I think any type of ball would work, golf ball size)for herself and her cats. She winds the singles aroudn the ball, creating a ball of yarn with a felted ball center. Then she gets one of those pots. You know the kind, people plant flowers in them. They have a hole in the botton for water to drain out. Anyway, she threads the singles through the hole, places the pot upside down on the floor with the balls of yarn underneath and plys that way. As she pulls on the singles as she plys the ball unwind and go throug hthe hole. I would assume it would keep the singles from tangeling too badly, and as long as the pot was heavy (clay) and stayed in place it would work well. I beleive the article I read with this kind of plying was about a woman who did a drop spingle, but it would most certainly work for a wheel with 1 bobbin.

I hope that helps a little.

Perspnally I love navajo plying and would do it all the time. However it really eats up the yarn and sometimes you want the barber pole effect (affect?) of a two or more ply.

Guin

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