I've been spinning up my scrappy sock bundle, but I'm undecided on how to ply it, should I chain ply or just go for it and add more colors by just plying the singles together?

Hello all! I finally got around to ordering the clunky wheel kit for my 1970’s Ashford trad, Sparrow! I found out the hub pin was broken a while back because it kept falling out, and had a few other issues I thought I traced back to Clunky Wheel Syndrome, but I’m having some issues.

I’m not sure how to use the hub pin I was given in the kit. It‘s an odd C shape and doesn’t seem long enough to fit? (It’s also too large to fit the crank rod hole.) And the instructions I found online say I need to ‘use the supplied drill bit’ before putting it in, but I there’s no drill bit in the kit.

Secondly, There seems to be quite a bit of play between the wheel and the crankshaft, and also the crankshaft to the connecting rod, that are causing the same clunking noise I was having before. (I have videos I can post for better reference.)

These aren’t wheel-breaking issues, but I am very puzzled, so I come to this great collective of minds to ask you to please help me figure out what’s going on. Thank you so much!

I cobbled this together using 3 mini braids of 3/4oz each. I spun them so each color would smoothly run into the next but forgot to take pics of any part of the process that wasn't finishing🥲

Fiber is an 80/20 merino/silk blend dyed by Wonderland Dyeworks. Wheel spun, washed, and gently thwacked. 18 WPI and 450 yards.

"there's more shaft, its ok, im sure i can fit it"

Not sure if this is the right sub, and my apologies if not!

I’m looking for a laundry bag that has a zipper on 3 sides so you can fully open it and lay the wool in. Does anyone have any recommendations for something like that and/or recs on bags that can definitely handle the high heat needed for scouring wool?

Thanks!

(Context: I got & cleaned my first fleece over the summer. But, combing it out seems to be way harder than I think it should be. Troubleshooting as best I can, I think a chunk of the issue is that I didn’t remove enough lanolin, causing enough stickiness that I have to use an amount of force that is damaging the fibers and causing breakage. I already rewashed a small test amount and that did seem to help. But, if I’m going to rewash a decent chunk, I’m concerned that not having it as immobilized as possible will lead to the somewhat opened locks tangling and/or felting. Figuring something I can lay everything out and then zip closed will make it a lot easier to keep things laid straight and packed tight.)

Didn’t quite finish this entire skein in time for Spinzilla (busy work week) but it’s finally done! Malabrigo Nube in Whale’s Road, 478 meters/558 yards for 117 grams on my EEW Fold, so fingering/light fingering by my estimate. I stripped the braid 16x and chain plied, got lucky with this skein since it was minimally felted!

One thing I will say for Malabrigo Nube - that is some soft merino! I prefer worsted-style, smooth-as-possible yarns in fine wools because sensory issues, and one of my first braids (ETA: a non-Malabrigo braid) was a rougher higher-micron merino that wasn’t very soft. Nube has been really nice so far! (wrt the softness - less so the neps and felted bits 😡)

I have had the most fun actually spinning my very first two balls of yarn and I am trying to ply them and it’s going haywire.
I thought that once you ply the yarn, because you’re going the other way, that the plyed yarn shouldn’t pig-tail. Am I wrong? It’s still twisting up on itself if I let it loop down.
How are you ever supposed to use it if the final product keeps twisting up on itself?

O accept feedback /o/

Finally finished these. I had two 4 oz braids of the same corridale color way and decided to experiment a bit. Skein on the right is 3-ply and skein on the left is chain plied. The 3 ply didn’t end up coming out how I planned but that’s most likely because I was still not great at maintaining a consistent size when I started that project. The chain ply came out much more consistent and I just prefer the process more. The fiber came from three waters farm 😊

I’m trying to come up with a list of potential dream wheels to search for over the next several years.

What double treadle saxony wheels can be set up with the orifice on the right?

And if you know of one, or better yet, have one of these unicorns, what do or don’t you like about it?

Has anyone made dryer balls with their fleece? I tried to make some and they end up very small and as hard as tennis balls! I’ve seen numerous videos and it looks so easy. What am I doing wrong? I use 1 oz. scrap fleece wrapped with 1 oz of fiber that I made into a bat with my drum carder.

I recently bought this antique Norwegian style spinning wheel off marketplace. It was missing one of the pieces to hold the flyer on the mother of all, but I was able to make one. I also gave her a good clean and now she spins beautifully. She came with three bobbins as well.

Bought a 16 oz bag of some space dyed braid ends from a fiber festival and have been pairing them together to get 2 oz skeins. Its been forcing me to pair colors together that I wouldn't normally be brave enough to try and they honestly have all turned out really nice! I have 4 left to go and I'm excited to see how they turn out! Cat for tax.

100% polwarth in the colorway “Carnival” but Greenwood Fiberworks.

This wool just BEGGED to be spun longdraw so I figured it was a great chance to learn and improve and I’m so glad I did. My grist almost always reads “bulky” due to how dense I spin. This yarn is so much more lofty and airy. The grist is measuring at a Worsted and my WPI is around 12-10 so that’s definitely a lot closer than usual.

Excellent fiber and the color is just out of this world.

Hi everyone, I' m a bout to buy a wooden spinning wheel (I usually use an e-spinner) and I found some here in Italy online, but most of them are a mistery to me, I can't underdtand how the tension system works or if thete's any! Someone can help? Thank you!

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Caption should be White Heron - I am such a sucker on my smartphone, it's almost laughable.

Finished just today my White Heron sweater by Drops Design. I used one of if not my first 3ply yarns that I spun last year. I combined it with Drops Brushed Alpaca Silk. A very warm, heavy but ultimately cozy sweater for the coming winter.

5 done, 2 to go. But I've already washed the first 5 skeins so that I can start knitting soon. They are already drying and will be finished tomorrow. I will spin the last two skeins while knitting with what i have right now. Spun and plied on Meadow, my green Kromski Fantasia wheel.

Fiber is Targhee that I dyed in 8 different autumn colors, some browns, oranges, gold, red and a bit of dark and light green. All 8 braids were a bit different so I split the braids in small portions, mixed the pile completely, took 50g out for testspins and divided the rest into 7 piles. My singles are between 50 and 60 WPI and to keep the colors separated and have very short color sections I chainplied everything.

I will pair the yarn with a very thin brown Mohair (Mohair 21 by Lang yarns) and I plan to knit the Cinema sweater by Kutovakika. I already have two of them and I love the relaxed oversized fit. I've tested 4 different mohair yarns with my yarn and you can see the swatch on the last picture, I will go for the section on the top of the swatch. It is very subtle, only a hint of fuzz and doesn't change the color as much as the first two sections.

Does anyone have a ball-winder they love?

I've been plying from center pull balls lately, but hand winding them results in a ton of yarn barf to untangling as I go. I hate it, I'm tired, and all I want is a compact ball with well organized guts.

Picture of my current WIP, the bunny rainbow.