Tag: spinning

• We’re Five Years Old!!

  

  What started out as an idea of, ‘wouldn’t it be nice to have a webpage of our interests’, to celebrating a milestone anniversary! We have you to thank, our subscribers from around the world who motivate us to continue maintaining Murlo.ca purely for fun. We also feel validated knowing that we have relevant content for…

• Plying Alpaca

  

  Today we move onto plying our alpaca singles. Be sure to give your spools time to rest. Freshly spun singles have quite a bit of energy in them and can fight you a tad at the plying stage. When knitting I’m not fond of working in ends. For this reason I like a fair amount…

• Plying Yarn

  

  Spinning and plying can be quite technical.  Some spinners will measure twist angles and count twists per inch.  My experience has been start out slowly.  You are building your skill set with each yarn you spin.  Don’t get too caught up with all the details when first learning.   This should be enjoyable, not stressful.…

• Beginner’s Technique to Spinning Fine Fibre

  

  In previous posts we covered sorting, scouring, dyeing, carding, and blending fibre.  All these processes can make or break our next stage where we begin to spin our own yarn. Spinning can be simple or extremely technical.  Simply put, spinning is an art form where your hands, feet and brain work in unison. I recommend…

• Drum Carding a Fine Fleece

  

  Welcome back to our series of posts on processing our Rambouillet fleece from start to finish. Previously we covered how to Flick card locks.  You may recall that I stated  once locks are flick  carded, my preference is to then to put that fibre through a drum carder.  I like to complete this stage to…

• Flick Carding a Fine Fleece

  

  In previous posts I covered how to scour or wash locks and I also covered how to dye those locks.  Now that the wool is dry what’s the next step?  Well we are now at the stage where we will prepare the locks for spinning. There are several ways to accomplish this, often dependent upon…

• The Story Behind Wool and Knitting

  

  This is my short story about how the Wool and Knitting blog posts came about. I don’t think I was much older than 6 years of age when I asked my mom to show me how to knit.  It was a struggle for both of us, but I soon got the hang of it and…