Using everyday materials available at home, learn to spin yarn from a handmade cotton sliver with a pencil. A beginner's tutorial to understand the basics of spinning.
Thank you, a very clear presentation, and very helpful. I am just starting, and hope to try this soon. The loop, I recognize it: it is sometimes called a "half hitch" by sailors.
You can untwist the small segments of slubs between your fingers, stretch the fibres and the fibres will twist back. But above all having unever thicker parts or slubs are a characteristic beauty of handspun yarn.
The yarn is on the pencil, and after it’s all spun, it’ll be either dyed into different colors or it’ll be used as a white yarn, and then you can store as a ball of yarn or use right then when you need it.
@@firstforest4752 can this be done with pharmacy cotton? Like the bags you get full of cotton balls for first aid kits? Those are not prepared directionally and i find it really hard to not break the fibers when spreading them. Thanks!
@@3ekaust yes ofcourse it can be done with pharmacy cotton. The yarn spun here is with pharmacy cotton. Please see tutorial 1 on how to make a sliver using pharmacy cotton. In that video i demonstrate how to align fibers in a direction. It might help you.
