{"id":2921,"date":"2023-05-14T15:29:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T19:29:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2023-05-29T15:42:58","modified_gmt":"2023-05-29T19:42:58","slug":"prickly-pear-cotton-spin-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/2023\/05\/14\/prickly-pear-cotton-spin-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Prickly Pear Cotton Spin (2023)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fibre:<\/strong> Pima Cotton Sliver from Buchanan Fiber, Prickly Pear colourway (2oz of fibre)
Yarn<\/strong>:\u00a0 Approx 197yds two-ply, slightly less than sock weight. Also approx 3.3yds chain-ply.
Method<\/strong>: Madness! See below
Completed<\/strong>:\u00a0 May 14, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My first cotton spinning experience. I bought a few turkish spindles (wood and 3D printed), and a supported spindle. I wound up spinning a lot of it on a regular drop spindle. And then I finished the spinning on my Matchless spinning wheel. All of that over a span of a few years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, no — not so much with the consistent singles! But, by the end, I didn’t really care. I wanted it done. I found the turkish and supported spindles were a little to fussy and fiddly, at least for dealing with this prep. (The supported spindle was a delight with the sample fibre (wool) it came with). I was fighting with a drive band problem on my Matchless (the incredible growing cotton drive band… sigh). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

All that to say: I hope for better cotton experiences in the future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did ply most of it 2-ply. I was concerned that would make the colours pretty muddy, and it kind of did. But, I was not confident that I could successfully chain ply my singles — they were pretty delicate (poorly spun — see above). In the end, I did the last bit of singles using a chain ply. It was a struggle, but I do think the yarn worked out (all 3 yards of it). Mostly, it makes me want to practice my chain ply technique so that it’s a skill I can use more readily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Finished 2 ply<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Finished chain ply<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pretty singles!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The singles — including the turkish spindle used for one of the bobbins’ worth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The fiber, as packaged<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The sliver, unbound<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Samples — various spindles, and my wheel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Early singles, for plying <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Early sample<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Fibre: Pima Cotton Sliver from Buchanan Fiber, Prickly Pear colourway (2oz of fibre)Yarn:\u00a0 Approx 197yds two-ply, slightly less than sock weight. Also approx 3.3yds chain-ply.Method: Madness! See belowCompleted:\u00a0 May 14, 2023. My first cotton spinning experience. I bought a few<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-spinning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/IMG_9142-sm.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7fEfz-L7","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2933,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/2933"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.knitbot.org\/gallery\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}