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Wednesday, July 05, 2006
Noils in Charge
Noils in Charge
Of our yarn day and night
Noils in Charge
Of our spinning so right
And I sing, I want,
I want Noils in Charge of me.
Anyone remember Charles in Charge?
I've got Noil fever. And I got it so bad it's good.
Since I have the big bad noil fever I thought I'd talk about spinning a good noil filled yarn. I've read forum posts and heard people complain about noils. Well, they have a point. You can't always do what you want with Noils. Sometimes as in the title "Noils in Charge".
It may be in charge but that's not always a bad thing.
Take this stuff (all pictures can and should be enlarged):
Good carding/blending takes several passes through the carder. With the batts above I added the noils in at the last time through the carder. This meant the noils weren't broken up and sat on top of the yarn. This type will never be a fine yarn. Well, I should qualify that. You can take all the fun out of spinning it and force this batt to be a yarn that you want. The batt will want to be novelty. The little sample that I spun up is a novelty single thick and thin, which is what it told me it wanted to be.
Now here is this stuff:
The multicolored noils were added in the first pass. They're much smaller and will make a more normal yarn. I spun it woolen so it has lots of loft. In fact, it wanted to be lofty. I could have spun it worsted but it would have lost some of the tweedy look making the noils pop a bit more.
Finally for today I'm showing this stuff:
The white silk noils were added in the first pass. Again you can see they're much smaller. I sold some roving with this batt. As in the yarn I showed off a couple of weeks ago, this one has one ply of noily yarn and one ply of straight up wool.
The yarn I spun last week will be for socks. The noils are small enough not to be novelty and force you into a certain yarn but add enough interest to be a fun yarn. Doing one ply in a plain wool makes for a solid yarn.
Do you want to spin noils yet?
Or have I turned you off from Noils all together?