I've knit Icelandic lace weight, its beautiful and strong even when blocked. I've never spun, any wool, I'm excited to learn. I'm knitting a Lopapeysa sweater for my husband now. Great timing finding your channel
Spinning to start can be a little bit frustrating but once you get the feel for it is the most fun thing! You can watch my insanity while you knit in the meantime. Lol
@@bffiberarts I'm really excited to learn to spin, binge watching all of you that do, hoping I will pick it up. It's helpful when people describe what their hand or fingers are doing. Like you were doing. Its so helpful. Thanks so much. I will go back and watch more, this was the first video that popped up for me. 😁
Hi Tamsin, I hope you're OK xx ❣ Thankyou so much for sharing this experiment with us. 🐏🐏 I'd heard of some Sheep having 2 coats, but I'd never seen anyone show how to seperate them and Spin them. The Knitted Swatch did look very warm. The very fine yarn and I think it would be ideal for any type of Needlework I always find your video podcasts interesting as you take us from the beginning to how the Swatches look . I really appreciate all that you do. ❣❣🥰🥰 Happy Spinning ❤ Hope you have a Great Day Take care and stay safe Lots of love Jen xxxx 💖 🐏🐏❤❤❣❣
@@bffiberarts Hi Tamsin, I can see that you're impressed by the Icelandic Fleece. It looks a lovely Fleece. Happy Spinning ❤ 😊 xx Hope you have a Great Week xx 😘 💕 Take care and stay safe. Lots of love Jen 💘 xx 🐏🐏❣❣💕
@@bffiberarts Hi Tamsin Thankyou so much for the Heart Reply ❤ Sending Heart back to you ❤ Happy Spinning Take care and stay safe. Lots of love Jen 💘 xx ❤❤❤🐏🐏🐏❤❤❣❣
The outer coat is the tog, the inner is the thel. Tog is long, thel is short. Thel is more letters than tog, short is more letter than long. At least, that's how I remember it. I did google to check. I know textile historians have found that the tog was used for warp and the thel for weft in some fabrics, such as, if I recall correctly, viking sails!
@@bffiberarts By the way, I'm getting my first drum carder! Do you have an opinion on what TPI is best for a first drum carder? I was thinking 72, probably. I'm more interested in rare breeds, medium wools, and down wools than the super fine stuff.
@@micahmilne how exciting! Drum carders can be so fun! 72 will probaby do you just fine. My first set of hand cards are 72 and I've processed everything with them.
I never thought to use what I spun as twine but I have some that I spun and am not happy with and gardening season is starting soon so yep, the green stuff I don't like will hold up tomatoes and cucs lol.
I tried using some of my thick and thin ‘learning’ yarn in the garden for the first time last year (particularly on tomato’s and cucs!) and it worked perfectly! Was actually softer on the plants than other ties and held but didn’t cut into them… and yes, in the fall much easier to cut and dump the whole mess in the compost! 🥰
As I was watching this, a friend messaged me that she was bringing some fleece by to give me. They are gorgeous, beautifully double coated Navajo-Churro with almost no vm! I am washing up samples from 4 of them right now. Can't wait to duplicate your experiment with Churro!
This is really fascinating. Found you because I was searching for how to spin lopi; your video came up first. I may actually have to get myself some Icelandic fiber.... What I'm walking away from this with, though, is that you couldn't really do this with a fiber that does not have the long fibers in it.
It really was designed for a dual coat fleece and specifically Icelandic but someday I might try using say a border leicester with some yak fiber just to see what happens lol.
Hey Tamsin, funny you should spin lopy yarn this month I am spinning lopy yarn to make a coat. I have purchased some Icelandic comb top and I am spinning it on the fold to make it little more fluffier. are you planning to make something with your lopy yarn? they're very popular in northern Europe I have noticed.
@@bffiberarts yes Tamsin often spinning is the goal and never mind the yarn that's for fun and who knows sometimes you will come up with something to make out of it eventually but it's the spinning
I washed some Valais Blacknose fleece with really long staple..I'm wondering if I could (should?) Drum card it with some of my shorter staple more downy (50% Texel/25% Merino/25% Wenslydale)wool and spin like this. What do you think? I'd like to make something warm, and not so rough as VB alone would be.
