I recently bought a spinning wheel, and of course I started spinning with wool! I am still deciding on my style. With my first yarn, I fluctuated between the worsted technique (different from worsted yarn, though I did spin worsted/bulky yarn--weird how the definition changes from knitting to spinning!) and folding the fiber over my finger. Worsted feels more natural to me, but I suppose I will adjust my technique depending on the type of yarn that I want to spin. Perhaps when I am more advanced, I will cringe to read that I used multiple techniques to spin one yarn, but it spun, it's holding together, and I used it to knit. Below is the journey it made:
My brown correidale in a single ply.
Here it is plied with white wool.
Off the wheel and onto the knitty knotty
In a warm bath with wool wash.
Poorly twisted into a skein, but it made me so happy because it looks like yarn!
The two hats that I made from the yarn I spun. They don't look as "professional" as my other hats with commercially made yarn, but they still look fine.
Happy knitting and spinning!
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