dragonlady7

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I want to do textile art like, all the time. Not just sewing, I want to embroider things, I want to spin and I want to learn to weave, I want to make things, I want to learn tambour embroidery, I want to learn how to put on sequins. I want to make garments and hats, I want to make wall hangings, I want to make quilts. Just, at all times, I want to do things.

But it’s hard to start projects, and it’s hard to keep track of them once they’re started, and no matter what I just never get to finish very many things. So that’s frustrating.

Anyway. I did manage to get my spinning wheel set back up last night, and I don’t have proper pegs for it but I managed to improvise one and get the rest put mostly together, and I got to spin probably three yards of yarn on it. enough to remember that however thin I make the yarn, I need to go thinner.

But while I was doing something else the other day I stumbled across this article about spinning embroidery thread https://spinoffmagazine.com/sublime-stitches-part-1-spinning-wool-for-embroidery/. What???! I know.

We can design our yarns to create different effects in our stitches. A two-ply yarn will tend to lie flat against the ground fabric when embroidered, while three- and four-ply yarns are rounder and add more relief to the stitch. A two-ply yarn is also suppler, which can be important when working stitches that require tight turns, such as chain stitch (opposite). In examples of Norwegian embroidery using woolen yarns from the end of the nineteenth century and after, a very soft three- or four-ply yarn was popular for filling in large areas with satin stitch. Softly spun, crimpy wool covers a large area with fewer stitches. When spun with low to moderate twist, the plies are less distinct, giving a more matte appearance to the motif.

God! Argh! Anyway, I want even more to not have to go to work adn to be able to just sit at home and spin things.

I have a mostly-white fleece; I may attempt to spin some of it and then dye it afterward. It seems easier to me to dye yarn than roving, but I should look into it.

I have dyes. I have wool.

Anyway– I’ve been slow at learning to spin because I don’t knit so it’s hard to get enthused about yarn, but now I’m like. Super mega-pumped on the concept.

But I have to learn to spin even finer……..