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There was a spinning competition at the wool fair<\/a> I visited today.<\/p>\n

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Competing yarns. Winner 4th from the right, third prize to 5th or 7th from the right, I can’t really tell them apart in this picture<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Another set of competing yarns, mine 4th from the right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I love spinning competitions. The competition today was about spinning a yarn (beforehand and send it in), any kind of yarn, from Swedish sheep and adding a recycled material. Also, you needed to describe what the yarn was intended for. A really nice idea!<\/p>\n

One of the reasons why I love spinning contest is that it gives me a chance to widen my horizons. I am forced to think outside my go-to yarn box. And this contest in particular. In the crafts section of my book shelf I have The spinner’s book of yarn designs<\/em><\/a> by Sarah Anderson. I have learned so much by reading it and there is one yarn in particular that I always have wanted to try to spin, but I have never thought of a proper use for it. And now I had my chance. It was the pigtail yarn. You Z-spin two singles, one with more twist that the other. As you ply, you let the overspun single ply back on itself at suitable intervals to make intentional pigtails. You can also add pre-strung beads to the ends\u00a0of the pigtails.<\/p>\n

So, I spun thick singles from hand-carded rolags on my Navajo spindle. The wool was from the finewool sheep Engla from \u00d6verj\u00e4rva g\u00e5rd<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Josefin
Spinning singles on a Navajo spindle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At first I was playing with the idea to pre-string\u00a0the overspun single with washers and add them to the top of each pigtail, but I realized that this would be too difficult. After all, I have never spun an art yarn before. My wool traveling friend Ellinor\u00a0suggested chicken feathers instead. And I loved the idea.<\/p>\n

I had planned to ply the singles on the Navajo spindle, but after a while I came to my senses and used the wheel instead. Plying was a really mad task. The yarn was too heavy and too voluminous and the bobbin wouldn’t pull up the yarn properly (probably because I had the wrong tension). And the pigtails were quite difficult to get right.<\/p>\n

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Plying intentional pigtails<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When the singles were finished, I was left with a bobbin with disastrously stiff phone wire. So, I let the yarn go through the wheel again in the opposite direction to unwind the overply a little. And it worked!<\/p>\n

Ellinor sent me a packet of beautiful feathers from her chickens.<\/p>\n

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Chicken feathers with chicken postage stamps<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After experimenting with different ways to attach the feathers to the pigtails, I ended up sewing them through the core of the feather and onto the ends of each pigtail and it worked out perfectly. But it took me three weeks to sew them on. At least they won’t fall off!<\/p>\n

\"Close-up
Attaching feathers onto pigtails, one by one<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I imagine the yarn being used as knitted-on\u00a0edge on a collar on a cardigan knit in a bulky white yarn. The feathers will make it look almost like a lion’s mane. Hence the name \u2013 The sheep, the chicken, the pig and the lion.<\/p>\n

\"Josefin
The sheep, the chicken, the pig, the lion and the spinner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The sheep is the Swedish finewool sheep Engla who provided me with the fiber, the chicken is the previous owner of the feathers, the pig is the model for the pigtails and the lion is the look of the wearer with the yarn in the collar.<\/p>\n

So, there were about 27 yarns in the competition.<\/p>\n

The contestants had been very creative in their yarns. They had attached fibers from clothes, cassette tape, buttons, silk flowers etc. The winner was a beautiful core spun mohair yarn with hand dyed silk fibers and hand crocheted silk flower buttons. The third prize was wool spun together with human hair, also beautifully done.<\/p>\n

And how did I do? Well, I came in second!<\/p>\n

The yarns were auctioned for charity. At this moment I don’t know if anyone bought my yarn. But I’d love to see it in a project!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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