Carding and Pulling off the multi colored roving 1B

This is the 2nd part of my series on dying, carding and spinning a multi colored roving. The spinning is actually incidental but this video shows how to card the alpaca (or wool etc) that I dyed in video 1A into a batt that can be pulled from the drum carder into a continuous rainbow roving.
While I plan to spin this and knit an Elizabeth Zimmerman Baby Surprise Sweater/Jacket - this type of roving can be used for many things.
I measured and gauged things rather "formally" for a very informal blonde. You do not have to be this measured - I simply wanted to show one way, now it's up to you to "invent" and color outside the lines for yourself.
I'm now off to spin so I can work on the final video in the Coloring outside the lines seried - 1C - spinning.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• alpaca
• carding
• drum carding
• roving
• dying
• colors
• rainbow
• Super card
• louet drum card
• drum card
• spinning

[Spin2Weave]

What can I say, I like cheap and easy. ;-) I have a cow horn diz and several sea shell dizzes (shells work really well - but hard to come by in AZ) but they all have very tiny holes. These don't work for a full batt of fiber, but they are great (as are milk tops with TINY holes) for drawing a very thin roving IF you only put a little bit of fiber on the drum. Good for very fine fibers like dog, angora rabbit or super fine wools

[Spin2Weave]

Made the diz out of a milk bottle top - washed it and then heated a large needle and "poked a hole" in the plastic. I have made several in different sizes. LOTS more fiber pulls through the hole than you imagine, so if you use a large wool darning needle your hole should be plenty big. If you get it too big easy to redo cuz the equipment is so cheap. ;-)

Real diz are made from cow horn, but now most are metal, wood, shell or - - my bottle top. Good luck.

[Spin2Weave]

I am nearly finished with the sweater I made from this yarn, will be posting a few photos soon - the baby is due this week so I'd better get busy. Thanks for the kind words.

[Spin2Weave]

I was trying to keep each color separate rather than feeding them in so that they spread all across the drum carder. I wanted a little "sliver" of each color all across the drum, so I controlled how I inserted them doing it one at a time and feeding it so that they made a small strip on the drum. I did all 6 colors and then pulled off with the diz. Very different from layering the 6 colors (which I have also done) - and different effect when spinning. One day will post other carding ideas.

[Spin2Weave]

I bought my super card used and it didn't come with the accessory that was used to draw off a roving, so I punted and made this up. I started drawing off rovings from my Louet, so this should work on any carder. Hardest thing with the Louet is that the drum wants to move more and the handle pulls it away while I draw the roving so I have a helper (my husband) turn the carder "backward" while I draw off. Works very well.

[TOIA43]

Fantastic!! Where can i buy a carding machine like yours becouse in Portugal i didnt found anything like this! Can you please give me some adress???? Thank you for your atention and sorry my english!!!!!

[elariel01]

This was so much fun! I can't wait to try it myself - maybe wait till next summer though, Scotland's winters don't really encourage one to dye!

[Dryad1954]

A superb video demo = you have a great style and manner when talking to a 'student'. Many thanks

[kazsev]

Fabulous, I wish you were in Australia to give us this lesson.

[emily91ify]

Ah! A heated needle to make the holes...very clever and I love that it is so inexpensive...one can make all the dizzes they want!

[hilltopbeader]

Thanks for your great videos. I'm new to carding and they are very helpful.

[Cantrix1]

Gorgeous roving!

[spankses]

@Spin2Weave buttons have a variety of sizes in their 'holes' and are fantastic for a diz....cheap too....