Beyond Your Default Spin-Along Day 1: Default Yarn

There's nothing wrong with default spinning. Your hands and feet know what to do, and you like the default yarn you're producing.

But when you want to expand beyond your default, this series will show you how to create different types of yarn. We’ll show you how to adjust your wheel, your fiber preps, and your drafting style. Just a few tips and tricks will broaden the range of yarns you can make—it's like reinventing your wheel!

This first video provides a starting point by examining your default yarn and how you make it. What is your treadling speed? How do you draft the fiber? What are the characteristics of the yarn you usually make?

Once we know where we’re starting from, we can then make the adjustments to get to new and different results.

We’re using the Matchless Spinning Wheel in this series. Take a look at it here

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