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#Combing #GulfCoast #Wool #CombedTop #Roving #FiberArts

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https://youtu.be/2oTOPdAuN5k

A robin-egg blue nest of combed top held out in my hands.

Making Combed Top.

I lengthened the video and sped it up 4x. Looks like candy 🍫🍬🍭! 😆 #wool #CombedTop #Roving #FiberArts

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https://youtube.com/shorts/AWlsih7czc4

Dizzing "cotton candy pink" wool off a comb to make combed top for hand spinning yarn.

Hubby made me a new prototype #wool comb holder. Not beautiful, but fully functional! Game changer.

#CombedTop #Roving #FiberArts #Yarn

A flat piece of wood clamped to the table with a slot to insert the handle of the wool comb and a metal pin to drop through the handle of the comb to lock it to the wood secured to the table.

All done! I'm so glad that #roving is gone (it also had a lot of cat hair in it)! 😅 I finally conquered it! Now to make it into #yarn!

I have vanquished my arch nemesis! ⚔😌

#HandSpinning #Wool #ShepherdsCross #beginner

A close-up of a mostly full bobbin of single ply blue Shepherd's Cross wool on my spinning wheel.

Next project is my arch nemesis, the Shepherd's Cross #roving, which I #handdyed years ago but then never could draft (slightly felted). It frustrated me so much it made me give up trying to learn to spin many times over the past few years. 😤

Anyways, seems I've been able to show it who's boss since last night! 🤨😈

#HandSpinning #wool #FiberArts #Beginner #yarn

A spinning wheel bobbin with some blue single ply yarn on it.

All done! #wool #roving #hackle #CombedTop

A braided multicolor combed top or smooth roving.

Okay, that's all I've got of those two color #roving. I've got natural merino that I'm #HandSpinning now. (That's a trip. COMPLETELY different! Like driving a Nissan 300ZX compared to a Subaru. Geeze.)

This bobbin has 2.6 oz. single ply on it now.
Do we store single ply on bobbins? Why do I feel like I need more bobbins? 🤔

Any guesses as to how many yards 2.6 oz. would be?

I think when I'm done with the merino, I will ply that with this. Barber pole style.

#wool #yarn #FiberArts

The bobbin on the left has mint green and teal single ply yarn and the empty bobbin on the right is for scale.

I have to be careful doing laundry during the #PolarVortex because the washing machine drain pipe is in an outside wall & I dont think they insulated it. So, I have to make sure the inside of the garage and outside is above freezing and the afternoon sun is on this side of the house. (In past winters, I've had floods because I forget. 😬)

So, I just sat there in front of the machine until the first drain cycle drained successfully and #combed all the rest of this color #wool! #FiberArts #Roving

A collage of pics from top going anti-clockwise: a comb full of dyed locks and veg matter, a clean comb, a nest of lime green roving, and a diz, and, finally, a bag full of lime green combed nests of roving.

New #roving color as I ran out of the first color. No time to stop and #comb #wool! 😆 I'm on a roll! I'm determined to figure out how to do this! 🤨

#Begginer #HandSpinning #Yarn #FiberArts

A close-up of the spinning wheel bobbin with dark teal and mint/lime green yarn on it.

This has been one of my longer builds, not even finishing it on the same day!
The #LEGO #Lunar #Roving #Vehicle. Got it just before it went out of stock.
All photos are on my generic non-developer website:
https://casa-laguna.net/e-log/show/roving-the-moon

It's a little #Moon #Buggy.

Final result of the #Lunar #Roving #Vehicle, aka the Moon Buggy, build.

I have a plan for the #roving that I bought a few days ago so I ended up buying some bubble wrap that I'm sure I'll be able to reuse. In the meantime, I've made felted soap, which is a bar of soap wrapped in #wool. I've seen it at the market and I thought huh, that can't be dermatologist approved. I'm slightly grossed out by the idea but I'm willing to try it for science. The only thing that I can say for now is that if you're going to try it, go thicker than you think. It gets super sudsy, which makes it hard to tell where the thin spots are. I thought it was fine until it dried a little and I could see the thin spots.
@fiberarts #Felting #TextileArts #FiberArts

A purple felted soap in a white soap holder on a white bathroom wall.

30 New Songs Out Today
https://www.brooklynvegan.com/30-new-songs-out-today-37/

#brooklynvegan_category_music #Music #Arms_Length #Bad_Bad_Hats #beams #Blitzen_Trapper #Buffalo_Tom #Cadence_Weapon #carly_cosgrove #Corridor #Cumgirl8 #Damper #Dehd #Earth_Flower #Gouge_Away #Gravedweller #holiday_ghosts #Ibibio_Sound_Machine #Jacques_Greene #Jim_White #LUMP #Marisa_Anderson #Mike_Lindsay #morgan_wade #New_Songs #New_Tracks #Philippe_Melanson #Roving #Ruth_Garbus #sam_gendel #Stand_Still #Tunng

Thinking of making a 10m delta loop for both horizontal and vertical polarization. Maybe with spreaders and pulleys to use with my sotapole. Any ideas? Comments? Who has done something similar! #HamRadio #HFantennas #roving

Okay, all combed and dizzed into #roving. #wool

A black cat with yellow eyes sniffs a wool comb full of combed yellow wool.

A birds nest of finished roving next to a set of wool combs.

I'm working on a Hobbes yarn for the Calvin & Hobbes #DataVisualization and can't escape the uneasy feeling that the orange #roving is something like the corpse of #Gritty. 😳