How to Make a Kind of Pencil Roving from Multicoloured Blended Top Using a Blending Board. скачать в хорошем качестве

How to Make a Kind of Pencil Roving from Multicoloured Blended Top Using a Blending Board.

I purchased a custom blend of merino wool from ‪@WinghamWoolWork‬ and I've been experimenting with various ways of preparing it to try to prevent the colours from blending together too much. You can read more about this method here - https://www.craftmehappy.com/2024/01/... When I wrote my "Spinning into Focus" blog series I played with a very similar technique to this (Technique 8) - the only differences are that this time I didn't draft the fibres out at all on the blending board, and I pulled the roving out quite a bit more until it resembled pencil roving. (I'm not sure that this can technically be classed as true pencil roving but it's carded, pencil-thin, and has a very slight twist added so it's pretty close.) The reason for drafting it out this thinly isn't just to make pencil roving. I find that with a big, thick blending board roll like this, if I don't pre-draft it heavily, the colours blend together too much during spinning and I also find I'm having to tug on it more than I like to while I'm spinning, so turning it into pencil roving serves a few purposes. While I was preparing this fibre it occurred to me that this is a really good practice technique for new spinners as it allows you to focus solely on the drafting triangle while resulting in a thinner fibre preparation that is very forgiving and requires only minimal drafting. Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:10 Breaking the top into two blending board lengths 0:18 Opening the top up so that all of the colours sit next to each other 1:20 Brushing the fibres down onto the blending board 1:50 Removing the blending board batt in one big roll 2:28 Drafting the blending fibre out into Pencil Roving 4:44 Stop motion of a bobbin filling 5:02 Images of the final Yarn