Prepping and Spinning Merino Top

In Today's show we learn how to tame wild fly-away and frizzy fibers to make spinning so much easier then give you guys a breakdown of how I spin slippery Merino and Merino blends.

~~ skip to 5:45 for spinning ~~

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"Water LIly"
The 126ers

[emmagoff]

I'm a newbie and learnt just by having a go and seeing what felt good, when I saw you drafting I thought oh that's how I've been doing it! Kinda just sliding both hand back controling how much goes between my fingers... Now I want to learn a woollen drafting technique...

[Dorty_bongwater]

I've seen Grace Shalom Hopkins draft like that, her YouTube channel has been inactive and I seem to be losing fiber YouTubers I enjoy, so I hope you make more videos! I draft a million different ways, it just depends on what I'm working with and what it wants to be. I'm doing a Shetland roving right now, and it's like butter for short backward after it's been pre-drafted.

[jenniferbrighty]

Hi Kim, I hope you're OK xx ❣
Thankyou so much for this video.
Does the oil help with fibres that would be hard to draft, especially slightly felted ones???
Take care and stay safe
Love Jen xx 💖

[sadiesspincraft]

I love this video can you do more like this xx

[sadiesspincraft]

When I'm spinning my hands sometimes get sweaty at I struggle getting the fiber to attach to the yarn can u explain why and do u have any tips please x