I’ve hesitated about writing this post. In the same way I hesitate about commenting on YouTube videos that claim to be showing a certain spinning technique – and aren’t. But great…

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With this method of spinning and chain-plying in the same pass, you can ply your singles right on the spindle as you spin. Spin some singles, ply them, spin more, ply more—all without ever having to wind your singles off.

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The half-wit sat on the floor and laughed fervently as he pulled apart pieces of wool.-- Iceland's Bell, Halldór Laxness

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How to Blend Fiber to Make Rolags on a Blending Board. Make beautiful hand rolled Rolags for Hand Spinning. Make Handspun Yarn from your hand blended Fibers Using KnitPicks Wool of the Andes Roving.

How much recycled sari silk do you need to create a pop of color? Does a pinch of Angelina lead to a glitter-bomb batt? Riley takes a deep dive into carding ratios.

So I was really disgusted by that. Both of these instructors just made the class really unpleasant. Is that what all spinning instructors are like, because… I’m not about that life.

There are ma lot of different types of spinning wheels out there. In this post, I'm telling you all about the main types that can be found.

Looking for a spinning workout with Motley Crue, KISS, Twisted Sister, Iron Maiden, and more? This will give you a great workout!

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If you have ever tried spinning your own yarn before then you know just how fun and addicting it can be! We found 10 exciting spinning technique tutorials for you to try so you can stretch your spinning skills. Learn new things, try different techniques, and just have fun with it! Which of these yarn

Get ready for this challenging 80s Hip-hop and R&B spin routine with Run-D.M.C., Tone-Loc, Salt-N-Pepa, and more!

"Father" from the series "Spin Family (Bosons and Fermions)" 2009, steel and silk, 7" x 6" x 6". We've posted previously about physicist, software designer, and artist Julian Voss-Andreae whose…

Oskar’s Wooden Ark stocks a wide range of Mader Spinning Tops as well as other beautiful Mader toys such as skipping ropes, kaleidoscopes and yoyos. Each piece is made by hand in the foothills of the Austrian Alps from local wood sources - some requiring up to 20 different steps to reach completion. Mader Spinning Tops & Toys was founded by Klaus Mader in 1991 but these beautiful wooden toys only made their way to Australia through Oskar’s Wooden...

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Wednesday, July 12th, is the official end of The 100 Day Project. I have spun yarn, swatched with said yarn, and fiddled around with my drum carder to prep fiber to spin into yarn. There was one day at the beginning when I completely forgot to spin something until I was tucked into bed, but the othe

Give your students a fun way to practice notating and performing rhythms with this spring rhythm composing activity! Students will spin the spinner to complete each measure with the appropriate number of beats, based on the time signature. Then they can enjoy performing their rhythm composition for the rest of the class or for you! What is included in this spring rhythm composing activity? Full color set of pages Black and white set of pages Six spring spinners with a variety of rhythms Four notation sheets (2/4, 3/4, 4/4, and a page with all time signatures) Blank spinner pages so you can add any rhythms you like to suit your students' current needs. Plastic spinners are not included, but plastic spinners work beautifully with card stock. Paperclips spun around a pencil tip, and fidget spinners work great too! Using the spring rhythm composing activity in group piano or music class This spring rhythm composing activity is great for private lessons as well as groups! Students can complete the activity on their own, or as a team. Each group needs only one spinner page (plastic spinners must be purchased separately). Each person in the group needs his own notation page. A variety of time signatures is included, as well as a page without time signatures. The students take turns spinning the spinner, then notating the rhythm onto their notation sheet. After the rhythms have been notated, the students take turns performing their rhythms for their peers. To sum up, students Spin, Notate, and Perform! Using this spring rhythm composing activity in private piano lessons Student needs one spinner page and one notation sheet. The student spins the spinner, notates the rhythm, and the performs the completed rhythm for the teacher. Using the spring rhythm composing activity to write music! After students build their rhythm patterns, they can use the rhythms to create a truly unique and special piece of sheet music! Click here to learn how to easily turn their rhythm patterns into a fun and unique piece of sheet music! Performance tips for the spring rhythm composing activity Students should be creative when performing! Marching, tapping, snapping, performing in the style of the Cup Game, using Boomwhackers, classroom percussion instruments, the piano, and playing a clapping game are only a few of the many ways students can move to their newly created rhythm patterns. Most importantly, have fun! Teachers like you are saying… ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Deborah M. says, "My elementary kids loved this and from this product wrote a song for their classroom teacher!" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Amanda W. says, "I love that you made a few spinners, and included a few blank ones so we could develop our own. My kiddos loved this activity. Thanks!" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sarah Y. says, "My students loved this activity! I had them split into groups to clap their rhythms for each other and some of them even put all of their notation pages to create several measure-long rhythms." ❤️ Related resources you'll love! If your students loved this spring rhythm composing activity, they'll enjoy these spring and composition resources too! I Have, Who Has? Rhythm Game for Elementary Music Students Springtime Color by Treble and Bass Clef Notes Music Worksheets for Piano and Music Class Summer Vibes Piano Practice Challenge Charts Composing with S'mores: Guided Music Composition for Elementary Students _________________________________________________________________ Copyright © Melody Payne. All rights reserved. Purchasing this resources grants you a single user license for use by a single teacher. (Piano teachers: this is a studio license.) Purchase multiple licenses for multiple users (multiple teachers) at checkout. Having trouble with a file? Please contact me.

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My friend BG uses wool to make art. In her eyes, kempy old sheepswool locks and matted beige bits from dodgy plant dye experiments are just inspiring raw materials, which saves me grieving over foolish purchases and failures and generally makes for a happy symbiosis. Nonetheless, for Christmas 2014, I was sure her life would be enhanced by possession of a spinning wheel, if only I could find the right one, at the right price. BG's ideal wheel would definitely need to cope with big art yarn and minimal maintenance, so when a friend of ours pointed me towards this Ashford Mark 1 Country Spinner on eBay, I zipped in with a bid of £65, despite the seller's remarks about it having woodworm. My sister met a pack of big dogs living on the farm when she drove there, in the dark, to fetch the wheel home for me. Once it had had a good scrub, the wood looked scarred, but intrinsically sound. The damage looks more like teeth marks of a puppy, probably now grown up into one of those big dogs. The Ashford logo was clearly stamped on the front and the Ashford website listed this model under the name Indian Spinner, made between 1980-86, confirmed by the original assembly instructions. I used those instructions to take it apart and put it back together after applying three coats of Danish Oil, poured oil on all the moving parts and bought a new 10mm nut to replace the only missing bit. How smart it looked! I named it 'Twice Shy' (as in once bitten) and tied a leader onto the bobbin, ready to present to BG with a great Ta Da!! Small snag - I couldn't see how to get this wheel to spin yarn. I thought I must have reassembled it all wrong, because the mechanism baffled me. The one huge bobbin has a whorl fixed to its back and the weight of the big wheel itself actually hangs off that via the drive band. Unlike my scotch tension Ashford Traveller, the flyer has no evident link to the turning of the wheel, just a brake band running over the orifice. Though BG had to wait til spinning camp in March to have a confident tutor, this wheel did prove entirely functional, just treadle away and you soon get the hang of it. By Easter, she had spun a dozen balls of superbulky yarn and developed thighs like nut crackers. BG fed massive amounts of fleece into its gaping orifice and as I imagined, did love making wild, thick yarn, though apart from pure capacity, the Indian still seemed to me a rather daft wheel design. Not only is it heavy to treadle, there is only the one bobbin. Unless you know how to make single yarn (which I don't), a spun single has to be wound back off the bobbin and rolled into a ball, before you spin the second single. Then the second single has to be wound off and balled, before you can finally ply the two singles together and finish your yarn. It was only recently that it occurred to me to ask to borrow it, specially for a heavy weight plying job. Resolving to catalogue, organise and use up my stash of wool, I have so far only got as far as the very first fleece I ever spun. The Huxtable Jumper has not had much wear, being heavy, hot and well, the post-apocalyptic look is so dystopian. Once unravelled, I found the yarn was soft and weak with incredibly loose plying, which rather explained why the fibres were already pilling. I also rediscovered a half formed bag in hibernation. This yarn was a fascinating and thoughtful gift, a huge egg of tough, highly energetic Z twist single Karakul sheep wool, brought back for me from Samarkand. Maybe it was intended for warping a rug. Crocheting with it proved so hard on the hands, the original project got abandoned. With Roger, my Ashford Traveller, spinning clockwise on the 15:1 ratio, I took the S ply out of the Huxtable yarn and added plenty more Z twist. Pulling this straight back off Roger's jumbo bobbin and plying it anticlockwise with the Karakul yarn from the ball, the Indian Spinner did sterling duty. With both feet on the single treadle, I could spin the wheel til the bobbin was nearly half full. Doing this ten times gave me a good workout, though the effort it took suggested my core strength must be dismal. I simply couldn't get up enough power to shift the weight of a full bobbin. Close inspection showed the final yarn was around 5-6 wpi. The weight was shocking - 10m weighed 22g. No wonder that was hard work. Still, I now have a high grist yarn which ought to combine durability with all the colours I so admired in my first Jacob X Texel fleece. The latter has also added enough softness to crochet without taking the skin off my knuckles.

The Matchless Spinning Wheel is the most responsive spinning wheel available today. You'll appreciate our wheel's matchless capabilities. The Schacht Matchless Spinning Wheel offers double drive, Scotch tension, and bobbin lead modes of operation. Its 19.5" drive wheel and flyer shaft are supported by self-aligning bronze bearings for precise action. Each flyer is individually balanced and the bobbins and flyer whorls are trued on center for long and superior service.

Spinning is a fun & rewarding process of creating your own yarn. But before you can do this, you must first learn the carding process. This article discussing the carding process and the essential carding tools to get you started.

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