All Plied Up
I wanted to share a photo of all three skeins from the Reeves 30" Saxony wheel. Tequila Sunrise is a 3 ply yarn that was Navajo plied. The other two skeins are regular old two ply. I finally thought to change to the high speed whorl for plying. I wish I had thought about it when I doing the Navajo plying!
The other spinning news, is that I tried a stretchy drive band, the Pony Bead Lacing, and I did not like it at all. It was too hard to control the back-spin, no matter where I stopped the wheel. I also moved the mother of all and tried adjusting the tension, but it would not cooperate. I ended up splicing back the original soft cotton yarn. My only complaint with the cotton yarn is that it is shredding and the knots do cause a "galump" so maybe I just need to splice the cotton better.
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like reading greek. :P
p.s. can't wait to see you, Ben and the puppies next weekend!!
But did you like the yarn? LOL
Rissa, was that a poly band? Or somekind of elastic? I have a polyband on the Kromski and I like it pretty well -- I like it because it doesn't...um...break. And the tension on it is so slight (but it still works fabulously) that I (don't tell my spinning wheel mentor this....) don't really take it off the wheel when I'm not using the wheel -- see, I use the wheel everyday, but I only take the band off when I'm changing the bobbin. Whatever. Anyway, I was curious if you had the same kind of band, or if this was a different kind. J
The yarn from the Reeves looks good! I love the 3-ply! My Babe has a poly band, and I don't mind it on that, but I tried a poly band on my Kromski for a while and didn't like it at all and finally just switched back to the hemp band.
pretty colors. i should try the brown wilton again :)
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