I'm barely a novice when it comes to yarn, frankly it's a bit intimidating, but her attitude is so positive and happy that she's just a treat to watch. She makes such wonderful things!
This was so helpful. I really appreciate being able to see a comparison of the yarns next to each other. And now I'm wanting a blending board again. 💖🐻
I love the videos where you show how changing an element effects the final yarn! I don’t have the time or the skill, and you do an amazing job of explaining everything. I have this combed top, and I love how the rolags turned out!
I love doing this to combed top. Sometimes ill be a rebel and only do it to half the top, spin the other half as is, and them ply them together. A very fun spin.
Very helpful. As a new spinner, I’m fretting a lot about “no mud,” but you gave me more sense of freedom because ALL of these look good in their own ways. A shawl with all of these variants in progression would be gorgeous. I see that starting with clear colors yields a very pretty result regardless of method. I love the painting feel of the blending board-and I have one!
Amazing! Something I LOVE about the rollags blended on the board is that you can spin each one separatelly then ply it, so the final yarn will keep the gradient 🤩 How lovely is that? I can see garments knitted with this.
Hu Evie, I hope you're all OK xx 😘 ❤ Thankyou so much for this brilliant video podcast. This makes me want to get my Fibres out and see if I can sort of replicate what you've shown,. I think we all agree that the Rolags have made the nicest looking yarn.... I'm glad though that you had one lot of yarn that hadn't been washed and thwacked. It showed how different that makes a finished yarn look. Happy Spinning ❤ Taje care and stay safe. Lots of love Jen xxxx 💖 ❤❤❣❣🐏🐏
Hi Evie, Thankyou so much for the Heart Reply. ❤ Sending Heart back to you ❤ Happy Spinning ❤ Hope you have a Great Weekend Take care and stay safe Lots of love Jen 💘 xx 🐏🐏❣❣🥰
No favorites, just like them for different things. I appreciate the experimental approach. I’m a long time spinner, and know a lot of this stuff in theory, but seeing it actually laid out side by side is great. I am not organized or patient enough to do these things myself. I also like the attitude of talking about what happens, without attaching judgement to it. Back in the ‘00s I took an advanced or intermediate spinning class that was about some particular aspect of spinning, I forget all the details by now since I’ve taken a few and the memories blend together like your across the top sample. At some point the subject of dying came up and I asked something about dying top, and it was simply dismissed as something that was never ever to be done. I understood that dying top was going to change the way the fibers alined and it would become more like roving, but sometimes I could get a really great bargain on something I wanted in top and I wanted it in a color, and I wasn’t concerned about spinning a perfectly worsted fine thread. It’s important to know how doing something is going to change it, but sometimes you’re ok with the change. I worked in a fabric store while in college, and people would ask if a fabric labeled “dry clean only” was really washable since it seemed. I used to tell them that all fabrics are washable and that you just had to decide if you liked the way they changed when you washed them or not. I then suggested using pinking shears to cut a 4x4 swatch and test wash it.
I love love love… your videos! All of them! This really helps understand how to use our fiber depending on the effect we want to create with the colours. Thank you again! Newbie from Canada.
I absolutely love this video. It is so helpful to know how to spin combed top in a variety of ways. The one I like best is the one with the blending board/rolag method, although I found all of them fascinating to watch. I see how muddy looking that first fiber is when it is all "muddled together." So there is a real advantage to separating your fiber by color and planning your striping, or at least doing it with more forethought. I've been spinning for years, but you really taught me some new stuff here with these techniques. Best of all, I love the comparison yarns you show at the end. In fact, I'm enjoying and learning from your videos so much, that I just signed up for Patreon!
Thank you. I always get the muddy yarn when I spin. I was always wondering how the got stripping with multiple colored fiber. Again thank you I learned a lot.
Thank you for sharing different methods, even when they aren't your preferred method. I don't have a blending board but would still like clearer colours than across the top, so I'll try pulling by colour. Thank you for the information and comparisons!
Thank you, Evie, for this fascinating video. I have to say that I am recovering from 6 weeks in hospital where I had some serious cancer treatment and this is the first time in the three weeks I’ve been home, that I have felt interested in any crafting/spinning video. My creative spark has abandoned me but this has been so enjoyable - I even felt like spinning for a moment! Great video -thank you😊
Rest and heal dear friend! You will spin again when you are ready I'm sure of it. In the mean time I hope my videos can distract you and give you some smiles! 🧶😊✨
You have a very professional presentation, as well as a beautiful product. Thank you!🧶🎓 I don't know which one is a favorite, it depends how they will be used, but I like the washed and thwacked one, so nice, also the pulled by color, very natural transitions.
Across the top for heels and toes, and blending board for some stripy socks. 😍😍 I love purple and would do across the top for the whole project on this color combo, but for fall colors I would want to separate the colors.
this was a fun one.... I generally have multicolored rovings and LIVE for those little candy-cane stripes. Rolags are a challenge to spin when using a drop spindle, I end up putting them through a diz.
The flyer on my wheel broke weeks ago.😭 my husband is very handy and fixed it, but now my tension is crazy and it's like starting over as a brand new spinner. The frustration is real, but I'll win in the end🤦♀️ Thanks for a lovely, refreshing video! You're always a joy....
You'll get there. It is just like getting to know your friend again after some time apart and they've changed a little. Take your wheel out for a coffee and chat for a bit. I'm sure you'll be spinning like old friends again before long! 🧶😊✨
As always your videos are so informative! I wouldn't have thought to take the colors apart. I would think that buying roving that way was to blend the colors. I love the fact that you thought "what if?". Thanks for playing and bringing us along. Makes me feel like I can play too. BTW I like them all for different reasons! I'm going to try "from the fold" and see how it goes. Love seeing you do it, so I can learn new techniques. Keep these types of videos coming please!
I just learned so much about many things from one video alone! You are AMAZING and I hope you really enjoy making these as much as I enjoy learning from you. 😁
Loved this video!!! I had the same fiber from the FotM club and didn't know what to do with it. Small section muddly purple - chunk of solid blue and 3/4 rolags (forst time on diy board). Ending up with 300yards of gorgeous yarn. Thinking about blending up gray/white rolags and doing an entelac project.
Certainly appreciate your “experimental” videos!!!!! I can see how the different results would work depending on what project you were going to make. (The longer colour repeats for larger projects?… - is this what you’d suggest?)
Blending board has to be my favorite, I love it. This was a fascinating video, loved seeing the experimental aspect of the different techniques, I learned so much
Love the comparisons! I’m a newbie, have all the equipment but really didn’t understand very well the best approaches or applications of how to get different effects! Thank you! I look forward to being able to become a Patrion in the future.
Great experiment! What's so nice about this is that each one has such a unique look. Personally, I like the barber-pole look that resulted from pulling by color and spinning from the fold produced. This was a fun one to watch! Thanks! :)
Such beautiful yarn💕 I love these types of videos! I don’t know much about colors or color theory I just know my favorite color is pink😅 so videos that teach more about how colors affect each other and in turn affects the finished product helps me so much☺️.
You always do such nice videos. I'm just learning to spin, with a spindle. I have a white and brown Corriedale comb top that I'm working with. Right now, I do a lot of pre-drafting. I strip off some white and some brown together to help me watch how much twist I am putting in the yarn. I'm struggling with over twisting. But eventually I'll get it figured out.
I have a couple different colorways of "roving" from Hobby Lobby and I've been experimenting with the first one and found that pulling the colors apart and making gradient rolags is a lot of work but it makes a nice rainbow gradient. If I do the same with the other vibrant one I have, it's even better. I didn't even realize until watching this video that what I have isn't roving but combed top lol
Thank you for this excellent video! I have some combed top that I had split into thin strips of color, but was finding it really hard to spin from. I think the wool must have had a short staple length, and I was having a lot of trouble, and ended up not spinning for a few years. But I have gotten back into spinning (YAY!), and will track down that fiber, and use my blending board to make rolags. Hopefully I'll be able to spin something nice out of this after all.
OMG! Thank you! This helped me figure out February 2022s kit and which way I wanted to go. This also helped me to learn how to read colors in combed top a lot better
The rolag skein is gorgeous. I did a color theory experiment with hand spun with my first batch of Merino. I made a rust single and a turquoise single. I played them together and yup I had a brown looking yarn.
Maybe i get one of those as a present so i could experiment with it as well. Looks very nice! I never buy them because they are way to overprized for me. 100g for 18 and the undyed 2 bucks is a big difference.
Thanks! It helps so much to see you experiment and play with the fibre. It also makes me less nervous about just diving in and trying something out to see what happens. I would love to see more of the finished product - what do those rolags look like when they're plied? And then knit or weaved?
Brilliant video! Just what I need for a future project I'm planning (after the sweater, socks, shrug, and cross stitch that I have to finish lol) You explained things very well
I like them all. Made my very first 2ply yarns out of the candy cane and twirl colors of merino from Paradise Fiber on 3/6/22. Used only the beginner's Ashford drop spindle and hands. Turned out better than expected. You teach well. Thanks
I recently started spinning with a bare roving with spindles trying out different breeds using undyed combed top. So far the Turkish spindle is the easiest for me. I've dyed the majority of own yarn for 6 years and am looking forward to dyeing the fiber before I spin it. I love watching your videos
Excellent explanation Evie, as always! I like the blending board one the best but I guess it really depends on what you want to use the finished yarn for and if you need it to look more solid or stripey. The across the top skein looks more tweedy to me and I like that one too!
Wait, there is a thing called fiber festivals? I need to find them in my area... Loved this video. You have inspired me to try my hand at spinning. Would love to see more videos on combining colors on a blinding board.
When I’m looking at multicolored top (so yummy), I visually superimpose a color wheel over it (in my head) to figure out what the fiber would look like blended or what I’d need to do to get the result I want. And sometimes I do walk away without buying it, having decided, for example, that although I love blues and yellows - I have no use for a green shawl. 😉
I had a rainbow northern lights one that was impossible to separate it went a bit muddy so I spun from fold. i think there's too many colours sometimes about 4 colours seems to work best.i love making rolags too so satisfying 😊xx
