How the spinning wheel works

[lemonsongii]

Thank you so much. I needed this so much. I'm having a very hard time with my wheel and knowing what is controling what. I surely need to get a stretchy band for my main wheel but now I know how to adjust the spin and ratio and even figure OUT the ratio! Thank you so very much.

[chicksinrubber]

Glad it helped you, Ratios only really matter in that it helps you not work too hard, when you find that you are having to wait while the twist develops before re drafting then try a faster ratio. I have had folks on workshops before who thought that the ratio grooves were fancy turning made to make the wheel look pretty!

[aemrivera]

Thanks for addressing tension. So many demos don't and, being new to spinning, your video was very helpful.

[chicksinrubber]

I am glad you found it helpful, it is one of the things that can really screw up your spinning and make you fight the wheel instead of controlling it.

[pattijohayes]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge...well done!

[deepcut71]

Excellent, thankyou.

I am into electronics as a hobby and i have to wind a lot of my own coils by hand so am in the process of designing a winder to ease the manual labour involved and reduce the time it takes to wind a coil.

The spinning-wheel looks to be perfect for this. I ahve some questions :

1. Where is the yarn that is being spun actually 'loaded' ?

2. Am i right in thinking you can twist seperate threads together ?

Thankyou.

[chicksinrubber]

The yarn is stored on a bobbin which is attached to the wheel, for every revolution of the wheel you get whatever the ratio set up gives you in twist, so for a given length of wire on a 5:1 ratio say you would get 5 twists. It is possible to ply many different threads together.

[hairechest]

Brilliant - nice to see someone addressing the basics in a way I can understand. Just got my first wheel and this helps a lot! Thank you!

[chicksinrubber]

You are welcome

[prettyyounggirl1918]

wonderful dear thank you

[chicksinrubber]

Glad you like it

[56TonyT]

Bless your heart that will be wonderful! I have no income and no hope of receiving anything that might even look like money so if you are selling those videos I will not be able to take advantage but it sure is wonderful to know that someone out there cares enough for the craft to keep it alive in the way of the old timers way such as you are doing it! God bless you and yours and thank you for returning a reply so quickly.

Yours in sprit

Tony

Tampa bay Florida

[56TonyT]

Kudos! Finally someone has made a video of the spinning wheel that makes since! I have had a burger of a time trying to get my big fat head around that flyer! Do you have any video on the flyer assembly construction and the Mother of all assembly (Up close and in great detail) Please?

Blessings to you and yours for this New Year

Tony

Tampa Bay Florida

[chicksinrubber]

Hi Tony, glad you like the video, I am planning to make a series of videos for commercial sale, these will include pretty much everything I can think of so that even the most basic beginner to the advanced can get something from them, I will post details on here when done, but won't be at least until September ish I am thinking. Will try in the meantime to get pics of flyers up.

[grubeci]

Sue,

My grandmother has a big wheel and I thought it would be cool to sell a video on how they worked. But, apparently, its all been done for free elsewhere. Also, I wanted to know in case I had to a make a large Irish sweater by hand for date night.

[AmySogle66]

Sue,

I am new to this- my uncle gave me some wool and I have a handle on cleanig it (yuck), but am not sure about carding or combing. I do have some carders from my mother-in-law from her attemps, but they are different sizes and am having difficulty. Could you recommend a brand/type of carders and combs? I don't want to spend to much if possible. The drop spindle works well for me,its just the carding/combing that is giving me fits. Thanks for any help

[chicksinrubber]

Hi Amy,

I use carders which are curved backed, the teeth should be medium weight, ie not cotton carders and I prefer ones which do not have the teeth obviously paired, they should have some flexibility into the backing cloth. if this makes sense. Ashfords are ok, I get mine from P&M Woolcraft in the UK, I know they do mail order.For combs I like the Louet Mini combs with double rows of teeth, though they are expensive and not suited to heavier/longer wools such as Lincoln, Wensleydale etc.

[shawnhawkins]

turn it around

[chicksinrubber]

sorry don't understand, what do you mean?

[ochagirl]

Thanks for explaining the flier/flyer. This is one very educational video. :-)

[chicksinrubber]

Thnk you all for your feedback, I have been running spinning workshops here in Scotland at our B&B for the past 2 weeks and it is nice to see people go away with a skein of wool which is of good quality from the start, it is so much easier to see how things work in person than to read a book which is often lacking important though seemingly minor things like adjusting bobbin tension.

If anyone would like to organise a tour for me to come to USA ot Canada, would be most interested.

Regards

Sue

[knittingdragonflies]

Thank you, this is very informational, and now I understand. Excellent video.

Vicki

[Sheepdogmom]

Sue all your videos are wonderful for a brand new spinner to view and learn the basics of spinning. Is there anyway you could show new spinners how to avoid over spinning our wool and making what I refer to as "worms" - I am a brand new spinner and I seem to be over spinning the thread. I have a brand new Lendrum single treadle wheel and am having trouble with over spinning and losing the working end. thank you for making such wonderful and helpful videos. - Sheepdogmom aka - Martha

[chicksinrubber]

Hi Martha,

I am so glad you are finding the videos useful, I am hoping to do another next week so will include something about overspun yarn. In the meantime, make sure that you are actually letting the yarn go onto the bobbin, if you keep holding onto the yarn once the twist has run in it will just keep building up.

Regards

Sue

[chrisroid]

Hey Sue,

This has been a great inspiration! All i ever wanted to do was Spin. If i was made out of wood, i would like to be shaped like a "wheel" so that you could spin me right round- baby- right round like a record baby, right round, right round!

Yeah!!! lets rock and spin! my world revolves around, dear love. forever yours,

sweetcakes.

rach says hello, but i dont know who she is.

until judgement day, the robots will rule. we will overpower.

cauliflower x