{"id":2300,"date":"2012-11-26T14:24:02","date_gmt":"2012-11-26T14:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=2300"},"modified":"2012-11-18T14:38:55","modified_gmt":"2012-11-18T14:38:55","slug":"spinning-sampling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/26\/spinning-sampling\/","title":{"rendered":"Spinning sampling"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the end of October the Hampshire guild held a Wingham<\/a> sampling day which I went along to. Similar to the one organised by the Kennet Valley guild that I attended earlier in the year, the idea is that you bring your wheel, pay a fee, and for that fee you can try as many bits of different fibres as you would like during the day.<\/p>\n

Here are my samples knitted up, with the fibre they came from lined up below:<\/p>\n

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The two samples with no fibre next to them are tussah silk on the right, and possum\/merino on the left (it came out a bit thicker and is distorting the knitting). The others are merino, or merino\/silk. The merino\/silk are the ones with the shiny white flecks.<\/p>\n

I have really enjoyed seeing how the colours change as you progress from fibre to spun yarn to knitting. It has been a very useful experience, and I am starting to get more of a feel now for how colours mix together and what I do and don’t like. I am looking forward to having a play with my drum carder soon and making my own mixtures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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