Fibers slowly slip through the fingers as the wheel turns twisting the coat of a sheep into a single thread, thick or thin depends on the hand that holds the wool. Developing patience in the deliberateness of the drafting of the yarn, new skills are gradually being learned and applied in the second of Green Valley Weavers' classes on spinning.
The wheel is an Ashford, double treadle, scotch tension which runs smoothly and easily pulling the yarn gently onto the bobbin. Having filled two bobbins at home for part of last week's assignment, I was ready to learn how to ply the threads together.
Plying the threads together to make a yarn goes much quicker than the actual spinning. Remembering to get just enough twist without the turning back on itself, the process moved along at a nice clip. Finally, I had a completely full bobbin ready to be turned into a "hank" by winding it on a niddy noddy. After which it was tied, looped and twisted for the end result of a skein of yarn. Now it is ready to wash and hang to dry.
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