How To Spin Coloured Nepps Into Yarn

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The Romney is a dream to spin, and whether this is all due to the fibre, or a measure of my hand carding I am not sure. My plyed yarn is coming out at 13wpi. So this should be a DK weight. I will try knitting it on 4 or 4.5mm needles. A bad photo of my WPI test - I needed 3 hands! The yarn is quite lively. I will post the knit later on. Ok. When using yarn, those with thick-and-thin textures and whacky novelty yarns are the way to go. Handspun, with lots of texture, is always a winner, though they can run a bit more expensive. Our rule when it comes to felting with yarn, the nubbier and less-even or consistent, the better. As far as the nepps go, when they do stay in, they look really neat, especially, the nepps being in a different color then I was currently spinning. Nepps are going to take me some practice getting use to, but fun nonetheless. I wonder if my homemade nepps will be different since they aren’t yet the hard wool balls, but rather, the tiny soft.

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Now, I have a set of 10 dryer balls, and feel I used an old gross fleece very wisely. From trash to money saving treasure. If I were to make some of these as a gift I might felt some swirly pieces of bright yarn or some wool nepps in a coordinating color for a cute polka dot look. Although, I kinda like the plain old road apple look myself.

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Rolling the warp threads closer to the loom, then taking one of the two pieces of yarn in the slot and hooking it with a special tool through the hole. It's not fast, it's not difficult, once you thread the first few holes, you get into a groove. Stick your hook in the hole, grab one thread from the slot next to it, pull it through the hole, NEXT!.

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In this video we unbox our August Fiber of the Month Club Box and demonstrate an easy way to incorporate wool nepps into your yarn as well as how we spun the... - Don't miss any posted from Paradise Fibers. - Join Hubbiz and connect with your local community. Feb 17, 2015 - Explore Martha B. Turner's board "Spinning Fabric and Threads into Yarn", followed by 110 people on Pinterest. See more ideas about yarn, spinning, spinning yarn. These fibers would be spun into worsted yarn. The inner layers had softer wool of varying lengths that would be spun into woolen yarn. Shorter fibers would be further sorted by grade into heavier and finer wools; the heavier ones would be used to make thicker yarn for the warp threads in the loom, and the lighter ones would be used for the wefts.

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Adding just enough twist to keep the integrity of the yarn so that I can actually use it in a project. Use a short 2 handed draw with a draft area that is 1 inch wide. Some of the Nepps did fly out while spinning, this is normal. Most of the nepps should grab onto your single and get trapped in your drafting triangle as you spin.

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The Ashford Elizabeth 2 Spinning Wheel is prized among spinner for a great value and spinning experience. The Elizabeth the classic fairy tale wheel with double drive and single drive options. The extra large wheel allows for higher ratios and smooth spinning with lots of momentum from the sheer mass of the 24 inch drive wheel. Spinning with Nepps. For the August Fiber of the Month Club we were sent some beautiful fibers and Nepps to work with. If you do not know, nepps are ususally bits of fiber that were caught in the teeth of the drum carder and became little wool balls. Sometimes these are the weak tips, or if the fleece was too fine for the kind of carder you. One ounce of this fiber fills a 6x9 bag and is enough to generously embellish over 30 art batts based on the amount of nepps (a very large pinch) I find aesthetically pleasing. Use more or less according to your preferences. This fiber is UV sensitive. It will change color when exposed to prolonged sunlight.

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Spinning the tweed yarn is easy and fun. I use a supported longdraw, letting plenty of twist into the drafting zone to grab onto the nepps. Some extra twist in plying helps keep the nepps in place as you finish the yarn. Wash, dry, a few quick snaps, and the yarn is ready to be knitted or woven into beautiful rare-breed tweed fabric. The best angora fiber to spin is angora wool that is clean, meaning no VM (vegetable matter) and has a longer staple length. Clean, debris free fiber just makes your life easier. Of course, you can do your best to pick out the bits of hay or whatever else you find, but it will be easier just to not have the junk in the wool to begin with.

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Step 3: Tie the Newspaper Onto the Bobbin. Take a strip of newspaper and twist one end of it between your fingers (going in one direction) to start making a section of yarn. Use this section to tie onto the bobbin in a double knot. Be careful not to break it when pulling the knot tight.

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Choose yarn colors you want nepps to be (shown green in Cascade Ecological Wool, and light blue Alafosslopi). Take considerable thought to how these colors will not only work together, but how the nep premix will work with the main fiber, which may be further layered more heavily on the blending board, before making rolags or batts.

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I did some ‘wrapping and trapping’, adding in felted nepps inside the layer of silk, this was fun and successful and looked great in a weaving. Silk is such a strong and grippy thread that it has a very wide range of versatility, and of course the colour potential and sheen always adds a zing to any yarn it is added in to.

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These nepps are Merino Wool and have been dyed an array of beautifully saturated colors. Nepps are generally removed and discarded, however, they are perfect for use in creating texture in batts and felted pieces. Or spun into your art yarns to create a fun texture and a truly unique finish.

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This video is the first time I spun paper into yarn. For this tutorial I started with dry newspaper cut into strips. Then I spun tissue paper into yarn, whic. Often these are the super short bits, the damaged tips and the less desirable elements removed when creating top. After being washed and slightly felted they are often added back in to art yarn projects. These are the short balls that create textured bumps in yarn. They can be added in after being dyed to created color and texture affects. And let the magic happen, after the 24 hours were up…. Tips in hydrogen peroxide soak for 24 hours. I emptied the container and rinsed my little pieces of wool, in some room temp/cool water, and set them on the rack to dry. After drying I was left with mini curl nepps – dime for size reference.

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