Spinning Wool Into Yarn - Carding a Mixed Batt, Turning it Into Roving, and Spinning it! 

My son (6'5") got my (4' 10 1/2") dyes, steamer, "good fibers" down from the top shelf in my sewing/craft room! Yeah!!!! My plan is to spend Christmas Day just playing with fiber, dyeing some and maybe using the drum carder but definitely spinning. Our house has been waaaaay too effected by COVID and getting ready for a virtual Christmas this year so I haven't been at the fibers much. Since you asked: I am in Minnesota and the COVID is real! So my 17 yo grandson has ended up living with me since April due to the yuck. And his dog, a golden doodle (2 1/2 yo) who is now in heat thank you very much COVID for not allowing her to get spade. Whatever. At the moment our house and extended families are in various stages of illness/quarantine/holed up. But thankfully we are all alive. This Christmas will be like Thanksgiving - virtual. Stay safe people and smile behind those masks, twinkling eyes can be seen and are appreciated. ♥

Currently crocheting a cabled sweater for myself and gonna start weaving some dish cloths because I can't do just one thing at a time apparently 😂😂

I am just mesmerized, i could watch this over and over. You should sell some of those huge and beautiful batts on your etsy shop.

WHOA 😳 I could watch this all day! Amazing!

That turned our awesome Trish!!

These might be my favorite videos! 😊

Ahh, i love cult docs too! haha. Loving all of the blue!

wizard magic! I love your creativity. This is just stunning.

I am so jealous of that carder.

So much fiber and a big drum carder, the dream!!!

Gorgeous!!!!

Love your video, it’s so helpful to hold the camera as you do, so you can really see your process. Thank you

I sat there mesmerized….. so cool. Can you dizz off the drum directly? Oh my God that’s gorgeous coming out the dizz….. like a storm rolling from sea.

So that's what the diz is for!!! You really are an artist, the depth of the colors you choose are so beautiful! It's no wonder they call it painting when you card it on your drum carder.

So gorgeous!

That turned out great!!

I love the batt to yarn videos. So relaxing to watch.

I love batt making videos. :)

Gorgeous color mix and so relaxing to watch wow

That was such a fun video! First time viewer- enjoyed watching the transformation!

Just lovely!💕💕

Thank you! I've been spinning for years, and my husband just got me a drum carder for my birthday, so I've been going through quite the learning curve trying to get my fiber ready to spin!

Your videos are awsome!!! I am so happy I found you!!!

What a beautiful yarn thank you so much for sharing trish x

I really enjoyed watching that process. 😍

Just beautiful colors..

Love the Diz idea!!!

I could watch you make batts all day long! 😍 Amazing how the fibre fits through the small hole if the diz! Beautiful finished skein too.

🤯 Never thought to draft a batt like that! wow. Great video, I love seeing the whole process. Thanks Trish!

What a process, keep doing the good work !

I love how this whole thing turned out! From the Frankenbatt, to the spun, the core spun with sequins is gorgeous 😍 and I also really love it as a 2-ply! 💙 Just happened upon you from a random search for carding fibers.

What a gorgeous homespun!

Wow, this was great! Thanks for showing me the whole process. It turned out to be gorgeous!

What magic is this?!? Mind blown.

I love your carding and spinning episodes! Thank you for sharing your skills

Love watching this. Gives me so many ideas

That is so beautiful

I could watch batts being made all day!

So cool. Loved this!!

I love how it turned out. I always learn so much from you. You’re amazing. ☺️

Your videos like this make me want to do all the fiber prep and spinning. Love it!

I love giant batts. I still need to invest in a drum carder. My state is great, finally seeing rain and making all the socks right now because it is so hot 🥵

Love it! I can’t wait to get my current project off my wheel and do a frankenbatt with some of the materials I’ve gathered.

Thanks for mentioning me in your videos again! I am making a video for Christmas and I am mentioning you! Happy holidays!

When you first showed the sequin yarn that you were going to ply with I said "Oh No!" but it was actually the PERFECT combination - thanks for giving me the idea!

Thanks for showing us

This video was so helpful and SO RELAXING, I could watch it and listen to it on repeat! Thank you for sharing this beautiful batt and spin.

Absolutely fascinating! You are a true artist of your craft. Thanks for sharing!!

Just beautiful! I have some purchased batts that I am going to try this with. Thanks for the idea.

Very cool! 💕

The final yarn is sooooo beautiful!

Wow. Love this natt

Oh I love watching you layer all those different fibres on the drum carder. It comes out with such beautiful depth!

Making fabric stars and now making fabric pinecone. Ornaments for Christmas gift. After that I can finish knitting my sleeve of my fireside pullover

Came out really pretty!

This made me so happy to watch 🤗 It came out so awesome ! I hope you and the family are safe and well and have a lovely holiday ⛄️🎄

Hi Trish, Thanks for another great spinning video! They are my favorite. Happy Holidays

Like I said in Your IG feed. This video is flipping awesome! I learned a TON of new stuff.

Lovely!

That is so BEAUTIFUL

Thanks for making and spinning the Frankenbatt. It's good that you had your quality control expert supervising! He's so cute.

I find that frankenbatts are usually my favorite. They always surprise me.🥰 thanks for sharing!

Loved the huge batt!! Adding the sparky thread in the ply looked amazing.

I loved watching u build the batt. It was a wonderful collection of blues, reminded me of the night sky. The yarn came out beautiful!!!

I love this video. There's so much to learn from it. Thank you.

That is really pretty yarn, I loved watching you create it.

That yarn came out beautiful

Just rewatched this awesome video and this technique worked so perfectly on a Romney batt i made on my drum carder using flicked locks. So fabulous! I also have a huge smile on my face from seeing Luther. Aside from color he is the spitting image of my sweet Charlie whom i miss every day. I want to borrow him for a weekend LOL!

i love your big carder. I have a small Fricke drum is only 7inches.

Didn't think to do a batt like that. Thanks for sharing!

That little bit of silver running through it is so extra and so perfect! It made the whole thing

Morwenna will be so pleased that you mentioned the hand turkey. Thank you 😊💕

How much fun was this!? This is why I love working with fiber! Love the end result! I have my first blending board coming in the mail and this is making my fingers itch to start playing and learning something new!

The yarn turned out beautiful!!! I am still learning how to spin, but practicing as much as I can! Good job!

Beautiful!! I'm just learning to weave on my new 32" ashford rigid heddle loom and love watching your videos.

I was mesmerized watching as you created your batt... I started out with a “Baby Brother” drum carder and soon realized that I needed a larger one. I’m jealous of your electric drum carder... what a great addition to any fiber studio.

Soooo pretty!!! I love watching the colors blend...I'm calling that the Cookie Monster batt 😁

Love the dizz. Gonna have to try it! And so so happy you are using a Woolee winder. Ooo sparkles!

I love to see Luther! I have pulled roving right off the drum carder with a diz but ive never seen it pulled from a batt that way! Nice! You're always showing me new stuff, love it! Plus the yarn turned out great.

This was such a lovely video! I loved having the chance to see your whole process from start to finish.

That's a fantastic way to join a ply! I've just tied knots but never again :-) Thanks. The yarn is so pretty with the sequins.

Love your videos!

Just finished my first rigid heddle loom project ever. So excited and I can’t wait too warp again!

I just love that when you are spinning, you let the yarn be what it wants to be. It is so freeing as an amateur spinner.

Wow! This video is the best I've ever seen on carding a large batt, using a diz to make roving, in an easier way than I do it, spinning the roving then turning it into yarn. Thank you for taking the time to do this video

Such a beautiful combination of colors and textures. I would want to make batts every day if I had your stash.

Beautiful yarn Trish as always. Keep well

Gorgeous! Never seen this done before, very interesting!!

I just just finished the nightshift shawl. I don't knit much, I usually crochet. Now I'm learning to spin, just got my first wheel. I have a blending board and love it. Watching you make batts with a drum carder makes me want one of those also. The batt is so beautiful

Very excellent video. I'm excited to make a batt and roving like you did. Thank you for the inspiration!

Love what you do! I must go make a batt, too! (Gerry)

OMG amaaaaaaazing

Love the batt you made! 😍. Blue is my favorite color, has been for years. I'm still working at learning to spin consistently, but I'm getting better at it all the time. I got a jumbo ball winder for Christmas, along with a skein winder. I've got some practice singles that I need to ply, I'll probably do that next week, hubby is off work, so I need something to do,or he will have me outside in the cold doing something! Lol, I don't handle cold weather anymore. Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all!

What an unbelievable amount of Fiber you get on that drum carder !!!!!! Such a beautiful colour.... blue is my favourite

I’ve never seen a diz before thanks for showing that!

You make it look so easy but I know this is years of practice, trial and error. This is just what I needed to make things better. And thanks for take the mystery out of 🦇😁

This video gives me hope for all the little bits and bobs I've got in my stash. I have a friend with a drum carder, I might see about making a bat. Yours is beautiful.

Never seen a dizz before 🤷‍♀️ love the outcome of your spinning. Could watch and listen to you for hours. Such a calm and relaxing voice with such upbeat tone and laughter.

That is so so beautiful! Wow, I need a dizz now!! What's happening here? Well... my County got put into 'tier 4' lockdown which means I'm not allowed to see my family at all. Today is the 2 year anniversary of my mum passing and her birthday is the 24th so it's all a bit shit really 🤣 But, I still have my lovely husband, and my dogs Dexter and Annie, and I have treated myself to a super flyer for my kiwi, because why the heck not...! Thankyou for all the inspiring videos this year, I only started spinning in August but lovely youtubers like yourself have made the process so much easier to learn. Wishing you and yours a peaceful and lovely Christmas. Kat x

Hello from Oregon! I’m new to your channel and WOW this was such a gorgeous combination of colors you created! What a interesting process to watch! This was like chicken soup for my soul. My best friend and fellow nurse raised sheep with her family for meat and as a hobby many years ago and she would process the wool and make yarn on her spinning wheel and she taught me how to do it. Such fun.