Drop Spinning From Start to Finish

[Music] so make sure your spindles don't roll off your surface uh they can very easily roll off and uh you don't want to drop your spindles okay ask me how i know we got a bumper crop of dandelions okay we're getting some flowers good crab apple tree is almost ready to pop she just loves spring happy mayday everyone hello friends welcome to my channel about creating using hand spun yarn my name is lisa and i can be found on social media as the soulful spinner i'm most active on instagram but i do have a ravelry page and a ravelry group so for spinning if you're interested in popping over there and saying hello so today is a beautiful may 1st 2020 in illinois we have had several days of drenching rain and today is a beautiful sunny day the flowering trees are blooming and it's just a wonderful day to be alive i hope wherever you are you're having a good day and you're well today is a special episode i put out the question in my last video about drop spindling and i was curious to see if anybody was interested in drop spindling and i get several people that said yes they would be interested in a video about drop spindling so that's what this video is going to be about today so what i'm going to do is i'm going to show you a variety of spindles in my collection you know different weights from very lightweight to heavy and and what they're good for i'm going to talk about beginner fibers for a beginner drop spindler and then i'm going to go into the actual process of spinning starting the leader and spinning your singles and going from park and drive to continuous spinning and then finally i'm going to show you how to ply with your spindles so i hope you find this video useful i am going to put time stamps in the description box so that you can just jump to that portion of the video that you're interested in all right so um let's get started so as you can see i have quite a lot of drop spindles embarrassingly um quite a number of them let's see if that's better now i did not get all of these at once i collected them over several years um but i'm gonna what i'm gonna do is go through a couple of the my favorite makers here and then i will jump into the spinning all right so i'm gonna start out with the spindles that i first bought and these are these three spindles here are kundert spindles stephen cooper stephen kundert is a american maker and he makes these spindles that are about they're all about one ounce he's not making any spindles at the moment but you may be able to find one in destash or through the woolery or you know one of the online fiber shops so this is my kundert spindles um these are all about one ounce and they're really good for beginners i i would recommend a spindle between one and one and a half ounces as a beginner so this is my these are my kundert spindles so after the counter spindles i i bought a golding spindle this is called a golding spindle just trying to find something to focus on here now golding makes um really really fancy spindles like really super expensive and very ornate and and decorative spindles i didn't really want one of those first of all the price was a little bit prohibitive and also i didn't want to be worried about it breaking so this one's made out of luburnum and what's nice about the golding spindles is they have this brass ring which makes the spindle rim weighted which makes the spindle spin a really long time which is really good for beginners so i this one was really helpful when i was learning how to spin they do tend to be on the heavier side because this brass adds quite a bit of weight to the spindle so that's a golden spindle that's my one and only one golding so these are all my elizabeth daily spindles right here you can see each i think i have more of her spindles than anybody else if you're interested in a beginner spinner i would recommend her apprentice spindle which is this one here it's got a nice long shaft it's not too heavy and it's got a very sturdy hook and this would be a great one for a beginner the other one that she has that's very affordable is this one this one's called the bear bonesy and you can get it for about fifteen dollars and what's nice about this is it's nice and lightweight so if you wanna spin some finer fibers and you don't want to invest in too expensive of a spindle i recommend both of these as starters quite a bit different size here so she has these spindles here she makes them on all different beautiful woods um these are molinar spindles i think i think they're based on a scandinavian design and both of these spindles are a little bit heavier i have some fiber here i just wanted to show you that this spindle was really good for spinning thick thicker singles let me show you a couple more of hers these little guys here are similar to those larger spindles or this dome style so again i think this is part of our scandinavian line of spindles and these are very nice and lightweight and they spin very very fast i'm going to talk a little bit about the shape of the whirl and and how they spin if you have a spindle that has most of the weight around the rim you're going to get a longer more sustained spin and that's why especially if you're a beginner spindler you would want to get a spindle with which has a they call this rim weighted so it's got a nice long sustained spin abby frankenman in her book respect the spindle goes through all the mechanics and physics of the different spindle shapes i'm not going to get into that here but i highly recommend getting a copy of her book if you're interested in spindle spinning so again if you have a rim weighted spindle so like this this is a golding spindle or i'm looking for my this is a bosworth spindle and i think the reason that these are so popular is because of the the rim weighted nature of these because they just spin a really long time it just it makes a lot easier to spin when you have a rim weighted spindle now that being said if you want to spin very fast and very fine you sometimes want more of the weight centered centered centered okay around the shaft and what you're going to get with this type of spindle is a much faster spin but not as long a spin now the weights of the spindle will determine the thickness of your single so the lighter the spindle the faster it's going to spin so here i have one of green sleeve spindles and this one is very very lightweight and i was spinning some tesla silk singles on this one you would be able to spin a real thick yarn on a very lightweight spindle so generally speaking the lighter the spindle the thinner your singles are going to be that's not to say that you can't get thin singles on a bigger spindle but it just makes it a little harder now this one is a bosworth spindle and this is one of his maxis so if you compare it with this one you can see that it's quite a bit larger so this is one that you would be appropriate for thicker singles it's got a nice deep notch here and it's also very good for plying so i like heavier spindles with a longer shaft for applying my yarn and i like smaller lightweight spindles about an ounce to do my singles here's another one of the lighter weight spindles so i'll leave a link for elizabeth's shop in the description box she uh has a very active presence on facebook so where she'll post her her spindles and she will even do a special order for you she's just really lovely to work with highly recommend her spindles as you can see i'm quite the fan here another one of my favorite makers is true creations spindles i have four of them here the gentleman that makes these spindles has been a one wood turner for many many years and it shows in his spindles what i like about these spindles is the shaft the shaft is very thin and the whirl is perfectly balanced so you get a beautiful spin on this this is one of his larger spindles that i like to use for applying so here's another one a little bit larger and these are very good for sp applying because when you apply yarn you want to make sure you have a long sustained spin so the heavier spin the spindle the more of it's going to have to continue to spin and get the twist that you want in your in your in your yarn when you apply okay [Music] here are a couple of his other lighter weight spindles what's great about these too is he has the weight right on the i thought yeah he has the weight right on here this is blood wood it's about one in 1.2 ounces and then this is his this is sapele and this is 0.7 so a spindle that's under an ounce again is going to be good for very fine singles and also finer fibers like silk so sticking with american makers here this is my texas jeans collection of spindles this gentleman lives in texas and he makes a beautiful drop spindles he also makes beautiful support spindles as well what's great about these spindles is not only their beauty but but the hook is really really sturdy i mean some of my spindles seem to have a very delicate hook and these hooks are very very sturdy which again would be great for beginners so you can see they're made out of variety of woods i hope you're enjoying this tour this one is one of my favorites because it has this little it has this little rosette which is just so sweet they're really like little works of art this is made out of a spalted wood beautiful spinners um the other thing about these spindles and some makers will do this as well is that let me see if i can show you this sometimes they'll put little pin weights little brass pins in the edge of the spindle so that it makes it more balanced and a better spinner so these are my texas jeans spindles here's another maker this these are my spanish peacock drop spindles mike is a master wood turner and his specialty are the his support spindles but he also makes a beautiful drop spindle as well so i have one that's kind of on the small side you'll see here i have this yarn around the hook his spindles are characterized by these little pigtail hooks and they have no notch which makes them really beautiful to look at this one's got little bunnies on it i couldn't resist that one this one's got a beautiful cut out pattern this one is made out of some exotic wood here's one i think this one is ebony yeah so these are my spanish peacock spindles so you just go to his website he used to be on etsy but you know people would get carjacked when they would have a spindle in there in their cart and it got kind of cut throughout buying his spindle so i think you can pretty much get a hold of them now which i would suggest you just go to his website there so what do you notice that's different about this one and this one this one that's right they're square these are spindle wood spindles spindle wood spindles are he makes it makes round whirls too but he's famous for these square spindles and boy do they spin beautifully this is the largest heaviest one that i have of his this is walnut yeah i think this is walnut and then holly the ring here and what's neat about the square spindles is first of all they don't roll off your desk or your surface as you can as a round spindle will do will do which is kind of handy and then the other thing that's neat is you don't need a notch because all you have to do is i like to make it right place it right here and this one is my lightest weight of his it's koa wood and i think it's about a half an ounce so this is made out of koa wood and i'm spinning some mulberry silk on this and i don't know if you can see but i'm spinning uh quite fine and then this one is a bird's-eye maple and then this one's i think this one's tulip wood and ebony so these are really pretty and this one's nice and heavy good for thicker singles and plying [Applause] notice here this one he he puts uh the good makers well they will add i think you can see there you go they'll add sometimes a brass in there just to make the spin more more true which is pretty nice this one weighs hardly anything all right and then let's go on to the british makers ian tate of the wood emporium makes the most beautiful turkish spindles but he also makes support spindles and drop spindles so this is my one ian tate spindle and he puts the fancy wood as a layer on the top and then the rest of it i think he he uses a common more common wood that's to his area and this spins absolutely like a dream everything he touches is just fantastic so i only have one of his spindles like this and then the other um turkish spindle maker that i i absolutely love is eat it ashraft and enid also makes drop spindles and i have two of hers here as examples this one is this one is i think she calls this a boardwalk this one's uh very center weighted it doesn't spin a long time but it spins really really fast and it's fun as it spins it's it's fun to look at and then here is another one of her spindles it's like a pagoda the the the shape here nice sturdy hook doesn't bend i i like a sturdy hook in case you do drop it it won't it won't you know bend and this one's made out of u which is one of my favorite british woods they used to make bows the famous english bows with you would and they get these beautiful spalted or burls in the wood hopefully you can see this so my spindle collection wouldn't be complete without a couple of vienna ashcroft spindles like a little butterfly [Music] all right i hope you enjoyed this tour of my spindles and i hope you have some nice fiddles in your collection and i'll link all of the makers in the description box below [Music] in this part of the video i'm going to show you how you can get started on your drop spindle and for this demonstration i'm using this carded preparation this is a coredale fleece it's a medium fiber that i carded on my drum carter in terms of beginner fibers i would recommend blueface lester falkland cheviot jacob would be good shetland would be good i also recommend a roving over a comb top but i don't it doesn't matter too much roving or a carded preparation has the fibers more jumbled up whereas a combed preparation has all the fibers aligned so this is this is hand combed this is hand combed top i'll show you some other here is some combed bfl with mohair which would also would be very nice uh here is a piece of a carded bat from inglenook fibers that would be very good yeah corydale cheviot bfl or anything that really makes your heart sing that you want to spin so i'm going to just pull off a piece of my roving here i'm going to take one of my spindles and i think i'm going to take i'm going to use my true creations spindle this is a 1.2 ounces all right so what i do to get started is i take my roving and i catch it on the hook of the spindle and then i start to rotate now i rotate clockwise i spin clockwise which is s direction and i'm just going to keep twirling and this is called drafting when you pull it out you're drafting out do this to you i get about 12 inches or so or 18 inches then i i pinch here and i walk the fiber back to the hook and i grab it now if i release the tension here the yarn is going to fall apart so i like to keep it under tension you can see this already a little twisty here and then you take your fiber your yarn and then you're going to wrap it around the shaft what's really lovely excuse me what's really lovely about his spindles is that they have four notches so they have one at 12 3 6 and 9. so you have a variety of places where you can put your put your um your yarn i like to put it right here at the bottom i guess they call that three o'clock and then i hook it on and now i'm ready to spin now another thing you can do if you're struggling with that you can just take a long piece of yarn you know commercial yarn and you can just tie it onto your spindle and then use that as your leader i i find that this is quite simple to do and just it saves that little bit of extra time of searching for a piece of yarn all right so the next thing we're going to do is talk about park and draft and then continuous spinning all right so so i've got my leader and i've got my fiber supply and so this is how you park and draft so what you do when you park and draft is you're pinching your this is where your yarn meets your fiber supply you want to keep your fiber out of the way so you want to maybe put it around your wrist and just keep it out of the way so the way i understand park and draft is that you hold you you pinch your yarn here you twist you're building up twist in this you see how kinky it is right in there you're building up twist in this part of the yarn then so you've you build up some twist now the twist wants to go somewhere and so where is it going to go it's going to go into the rest of your yarn so at this point what you do is you park it so some people like to park it between their legs some people will will park it you know in their in their armpit like that let me see if you can see this all right it's got all this twist builded up and built up in here so now i'm going to release i'm going to draft out watch what happens when i release all that twist went up into that yarn that was just that um basically pre yarn all right now what we're going to do is we're going to take this and wrap it around so let's do it again so we're going to build up twist and then draft sometimes you can get two drafts this is a very slow way of making yarn but it's it's a nice way to learn because then you're not worried about dropping your precious spindle this is one of the reasons i suggest you get an inexpensive spindle to start with so that if you do drop it you don't you know you're not too worried about about dropping it so i'll show you this again so there's your yarn here's your fiber supply you're going to hook you're going to build twist this time i'm going to park it between my knees here like this hopefully you can see this and then i i hit where my hand is pinching here holding the fiber i'm going to pinch it with my other hand now i'm going to draft out and release draft out and release so the the twist wants to go somewhere and it wants to go up into the fiber supply and then you wind it on i didn't learn park and draft i i just jumped right into regular continuous spinning with a lot of mistakes see so there i was able to draft quite a bit out there you know it's strong here wind it on and we'll do one more time and then i'll show you the continuous method build up twist park it here now we're going to draft one you can smooth the yarn depending i've got three three drafts out of that one spin you can test the twist in your yarn by doing a ply back sample it's a little bit under twisted there abby says in her book that it's better to have too much twist instead of too little so it's just a matter of practice so you can test your twist by doing a back apply back sample and see how you like your yarn alright next up is how to spin continuous all right so how do you join new new fiber make sure that you're leaving a little bit of fluff on the end of your yarn here and then you take your fluff of your fiber supply and you lay the fluff on fluff now we're going to hook put my yarn on the hook always keeping this kind of out of the way you're going to go ahead and spin so rather than park and dread off that you're you're you're going to just draft it out now while it's spinning and i keep an eye on the spindle as it starts to slow down i'm going to stop drafting and then i if you go up and down like this you can get it on your shaft a little bit faster all right it really is just practice all of a sudden it'll click it's just like riding a bicycle all of a sudden you knew how to ride a bicycle now ergonomics here let's talk about ergonomics so you see what i'm doing is i'm constantly lifting up my arm which can actually give you some shoulder pain so rather than lift your arm you can only dr draft with you know how far is comfortable like here and then do figure eight butterfly it and then from there put it back on the spindle you can also spin sitting down again you don't have to go all the way up here you can stop here and then grab your yarn and put it on your spindle all right so after you practice that for a while you you want to start thinking about how you can get this to spin faster and longer and so that's what we'll talk about in the next part of the video the good old thigh roll all right so so far all we've been doing is twisting with our with our hand and drafting the faster the spin the faster you have to draft that's again why beginners are often recommended a heavier spindle which spins a little slower so it just gives you more time to get everything coordinated all right this is my favorite way to get my spindle in motion so what i do is i take my my spindle and i roll it on my thigh clockwise this gives you a much much longer spin see it's still spinning and i've decided i've had enough twist in my yarn and so i just stop the spindle and then wind on again i just go up and down up and down there's different ways to build your this is called the cop and there's different ways to build the cop you can make it a center weighted like a football or you can make it like a beehive it just depends on how you know what your preference is so i'm doing this while i'm sitting so again i'm going to roll and then draft what's nice here is you can then stand up still spinning once i run out of arm i just stop the spindle and wind it on like so it does take practice but i guess all of a sudden it will just it will click here's my ply back sample it's a nice loosely applied this is a very strong fiber it's it's about the four inch staple so it's going to hang together quite well now if you are holding the fiber supply in this hand and you want to do the thigh roll right what you're going to have to do this time if you're holding your spindle in your right hand you want to spin your singles in the clockwiser s direction no i always say that wrong z z is clockwise okay that this time i'm going to have to roll it this way this way now i don't draft this way that's why i'm much slower doing it this way so in this part of the video i wanted to talk about different types of fiber preparation so there's lots of different ways that you can purchase your fiber for spindle spinning it's often nice to have a smaller package of fiber this is from hilltop cloud it's a it's called a backpack and it's just a 720 gram bundles of fiber so it's really perfect for spindle spinning i'm also a big proponent of farm roving this is some fin sheep wool that i purchased from walnut springs farm and i tend i tend to find that farm roving or farm products like this are very open and lofty and very easy especially for beginners whereas when you buy a hand-dyed comb top sometimes the fibers can be a little bit compacted and you'll have to open up the fibers or even do what they call pre-drafting in order to make it easier to spin so pre-drafting basically means you take a strip of your fiber and then you you kind of attenuate it out opening up the fibers a little bit and making it easier to spin this is nice to do uh when you have a commercially dyed top or if it's the fiber's been sitting around in your stash for a long time and got a little compacted and that's called pre-drafting this is a bfl top comb top from i bought this from village spill village spinning and waving and this is comb tap this is a very nice beginner fiber another one of my favorites for beginners is cheviot this is cheviot this is a carded preparation that's also nice to spin now if you're not into the white you you just need to craving some color you can buy prepared you know dyed fibers this is a this is a blend of coradal and some sparkle so pick a fiber that really speaks to you that you're going to enjoy spending some time with when you're learning because it's going to make the whole experience a lot more fun so this has got a little sparkle and then here is the small skein that i made from that fiber all spindle spun but i i strongly encourage you if you really are i think you're going to enjoy spinning i encourage you to prepare your own fiber this is some drum carded corydale and you can see how open and lofty this is and this is just going to be so easy to [Music] spin [Music] [Music] um [Music] um [Music] hmm [Music] so [Music] so this spindle is so light it spins very fast and a long time and i'm spinning thin so now if i tried to spin a thick yarn on a very thin spindle or lightweight spindle what would happen is the the spindle would start to back twist because a thicker yarn doesn't hold as much twist as the thinner yarn and so that twist wants to go somewhere and so that's why you would get a backspin this is combed bfl commercially prepared top and as you saw at the beginning here i had to do quite a bit of fiber prep before i started spinning so here it is it's it's pretty compacted it's pretty dense and so i had to take it and really fluff it out and then take a piece off and you can do whatever there's a whole nother video about color management but see i'm opening it up fluffing it out and then sometimes pre-drafting you pre-drafted just a little bit not a lot but just enough to to get it nice and open and ready to spin so now i have my my piece of fluff all ready to go always leaving some fluff on the end of your yarn here so that has something to grab onto i just pinch it here give it a little bit of a twist now make sure this doesn't go into the and twist just wants to it wants to go somewhere and it's going to go right into your your fiber again keeping that off of your out of your way there all right so what if you have a slub you know a thick spot that didn't get spun what i like to do is build up a little twist like you are like you would if you were going to park and draft and then working your way over to the slob so there's my thick spot right here so what i'm gonna do is take my left hand untwist open the twist going towards myself my body and this one this way the other the other direction and then i pull apart here and you can see that that slub is starting to stretch out and now i'm going to let that twist that i built up in there and now no more slub and wind it back on so that's your worst to draw with a worsted draw you always keep the twist out of the fiber supply so i'm controlling the twist with my hand here so when i give it a twirl i take this hand hold it where the twist this finger was and then i start to draft out and you can smooth it smoothing it is more of a true worsted when you pull back and smooth pinch back smooth pinch back smooth it takes up all the air out of your fiber and your yarn is going to be very dense and very drapey if you want to leave some of the air in your yarn again i'm pinching here giving it a twist switching places and now i'm just going to let that twist go up into my fiber but i'm not smoothing it so it's going to be a little bit more lofty so you get a semi worsted alright now i'm going to show you how to do the long draw with a spindle for the long draw with a spindle you want to have a carded preparation i avoid comb top you can do a long draw with a spindle with comb topping but you would have to probably do it over the fold which which is another video okay so i'm just going to take a small piece of my coredale uh roving nice and open and lofty so here we go with the with the long draw so what i'm doing is i'm letting the twist kind of dance over this hand here moving up into the fiber supply you get quite a long draw this way very quickly now one thing you can do is just take your elbow and grab the fiber like this so it's just like long drawn on wheel so you're drafting out sideways like this so you're going to get a lot of air in your yarn that take it takes a lot of practice but it makes yarn really really fast do it one more time so i'm just kind of doing a dance here with my fiber i got a little slub there take that off and there we go what i like about spindle spinning is it gets you off of your off your tush and standing if you want i'm just doing a long draw here sometimes i go back and pinch here to control the twist i do kind of this hand is very kind of goes everywhere up and down letting that twist into the wool and there you have your quite a long bit you can see i'm building up my cop pretty fast here so how do you when do you stop you know how how much fiber do you have on your spindle before you think you're done well i find that you really can't build a cup much wider than the whirl is so once the yarn starts filling up and getting to the edges of your whirl i'm i i'm pretty much done also if your spindle starts to really slow down and wobble quite a bit it's going to impact your ability to spin so it's really just personal preference again if you're worried just do it over a carpet don't do it over cement you know because you you'll be sorry if you drop your spindle and you break it see it's still spinning and then i've got my yarn all right in the next part of the video i'm going to show you how to apply i have my two i have my two cops here now i i would probably put more yarn on here but i'm just uh just for demonstration purposes i'm going to show you how to make how i make my blind ball so what i usually do is take take the two ends of my yarn okay so i've got my two threads here now you can you can start it you can wrap it around like um a coin or a little rock or something uh i don't do that all i do is i do a couple of figure eights here and then i just just let the spindles rest on a surface or on the carpeted floor all right so i've got my figure eight all right now i start wrapping it around the middle so you see how it's like a bow just move this over so it's like a bow and i continue to do that i wrap it around just as many times as i feel like it and once i get a little bit of a build up here and then i fold over the two ends of my little bow and i very tightly normally when you wind a ball of yarn for for knitting you don't you don't do it tightly you do it very loosely but for plying you want to make sure you do it really nice and nice and tight and then i just fold over again and continue to wind and then i just usually let my spindles uh gently you know rest on a you know a sofa or the floor just uh or the over the bed you put them on the bed and i just keep you can do this while you're watching tv and then every once in a while i rotate again but you want to be tight you want these two plies to have the same tension i didn't realize this matches my shirt now there are other ways that you can apply you can fashion a lazy kate to hold your two spindles again if you want more details on spindle spinning you can check out respect the spindle also maggie casey has a book starting spinning where she has this section there on spindling so you know you could certainly some people put these on a like a shoe box with holes in it and then they they apply right off of the spindles i think spanish peacock has a device that you could use to apply so i would encourage you just to do your own research this just is just what works for me and so yeah so i could just keep doing that and until i have my ball all ready to apply so you know typically it just ends up looking like this all right so next up i'll show you how to apply all right so let's talk about plying so i've made my plying ball and i have my my spindle my my little bit heavier and a little bit longer shaft spindle and so what i'm going to do is i'm going to take my end and i like to make a slip knot just like you do when you're casting on and knitting or crochet or you could just make a regular a regular knot and i fasten it to my my spindle so i just tie it on all right so i've got it tied on and now what you do when you apply is you want to spin the spindle in the opposite direction as your singles so i did my singles z twist which is clockwise so when i apply i'm going to go counter clockwise so i'm going to spin my spindle this way i've got a little bit of yarn built up there against my true creation spindle so i've got my yarn it's been this way and you can see what's happening is you're getting your two ply so there so there's my two ply and again now with this you don't you can't count treadles or anything like you do when you're doing on a wheel so i just give it a good turn and then i just look at my yarn like right now i'm looking at my yarn and i don't feel like it has enough ply twist it just doesn't look pleasing to me so what i do is i give it another twirl to build up a little bit more plying twist in there and now you look at your yarn to see what it looks like some people like a really tight apply other other people like a loose ply it's just personal preference don't be alarmed if it does this especially if your singles have been resting a long time you expect this to be a little twisty uh when you do your plying that's completely normal and again i'm holding the twist here i've got the the ball in my hand i'm trying not all the applying twists twisted go up into the fiber and then after a while you get into a rhythm and you know you you spin and you you let out the same amount of fiber from your from your plying ball and you might just have a look see what it looks like i'm happy with the ply twist and now i'm going to wind it on my spindle and again just try to be consistent so you know leave about the same amount here give it a twirl see what i'm doing is i'm just releasing you know three lengths of fiber now my spindle's still spinning but i'm going to stop uh it's quite a bit of twist in there so it spindling is more you know it's it's more of an intuitive thing it's more of the feel there's the the technical aspect of it is not as strong as with wheel spinning you know with ratios and twists per inch and so on it's just more you know what it looks like you know what your yarn what you like to spin with so i'm giving it a twirl with my hand again counterclockwise letting it build up there give it sometimes i give it a little more if i don't feel like there's enough twist and if you do the same movement every time you're going to get the same amount of ply twist throughout your yarn all right i'm going to show you how i do this standing up and that'll be the conclusion of this video so just like before i'm going to give it a thigh roll but i'm not going to go clockwise i'm going to go anti-clockwise so i'm going to go this way i'm going to and then i just release some of the yarn and again i'm going to look at it it looks good and wind it on you can see my my yarn is being stored on the shaft of the spindle this is why you like a nice longer shaft because typically when you apply your yarns a lot it's a lot thicker than the single so you can need a little bit more room to store the yarn one two three so after i get into a rhythm i'm always doing the same thing letting out the same amount watching the spin it goes quite fast of course if you have a wheel you can go ahead and do your plying on your wheel this is a wicked spin i mean it just spins forever true creations phenomenal phenomenal spindles [Music] so just do whatever is comfortable for you and then once i get um the whole all the yarn plied then i'm going to put it on the knitty knotty and tie it off tie it off give it a wash and you end up with a pretty skein like this so i had a lot of fun making this video i hope you found it useful i welcome your questions and comments in below the description box i will link all my resources down there i hope you guys have a wonderful weekend and we'll see you next week take care bye

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Keywords: handspinning, dropspindle, spinning, fiberarts

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Length: 57min 38sec (3458 seconds)

Published: Sun May 03 2020