Knot Knecessarily Known Knitting

Gale Evans of Gale's Art was kind enough to do a carding party during The Whole Nine Yarns regular Monday night spin night on 8 February. This worked out well for me, as I needed to learn to use my Strauch wool hand cards for things other than experimental mohair. The fact that I didn't have a drum carder also kept me from going completely crazy. I should note that 5 of 6 spinners who did bring a drum carder had the same model of Strauch drum carder. I was able to watch these in action. When I'm ready to move up to a drum carder, I'm going here . Gale brought older roving samples that she is retiring. There were lots and lots of colors, so it was a fun opportunity to play with blending single-color fibers to produce more luminous colors. This sort of visual blending is similar to what happens when you look at an Impressionist painting. Some woven fabrics also take advantage of the technique -- plaids are an example. Anyway, amongst my bounty was about one ounce