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The proud bronze medalist in the Swedish hand spinning championships 2017<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I just won the bronze medal in the Swedish hand spinning championships 2017!<\/p>\n

It is a competition where the prize is really valuable feedback on all the contestants’ spinning and an opportunity to give yourself a spinning challenge. The Swedish championships have been running for three years now and I have participated in all of them. Every year there have been two different categories \u2013 one regular and one advanced \u2013 and contestants are welcome to enter one or both of them.<\/p>\n

This year I participated in both categories. All the contestants got the same fluff sent home together with instructions and the finished yarn was sent to a jury and the winners were announced at the Swedish spinning and wool championships festival at W\u00e5lstedts spinning mill in Dala-Floda. More about the event in a later post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The rules of the game<\/h2>\n

The regular category was a 3-ply yarn. We received batts of two different colours with which we were allowed to play with as we liked. Originally I had planned to spin a gradient yarn, but when I got the batts I realized that the colours were too similar to each other to make a good gradient. Yet, they were too different to work with singles spun in the different colours without looking too speckled.\u00a0So I simply pre-drafted from both of the batts similarly to get both of the colours in each singles.<\/p>\n

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Batts and singles for 3-ply competition yarn. Supported spindle and spinning bowl from Malcolm Fielding<\/a>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Spinning for the championships<\/h2>\n

The different batts had slightly different feelings to them, I think one of them was undyed. I don’t spin from batts very often and I’m not very used to spinning fluff without lanolin. I spun the singles with long draw on a supported spindle to get as much air in the yarn as possible, and plied it on my wheel. And it turned out nicely. But not the best yarn I have spun and not my favourite spinning either.<\/p>\n

I did not get any prize for this yarn. However, I got some very constructive feedback from the jury. They said that it was evenly spun, but a bit overplied in some areas.<\/p>\n

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Finished 3-ply yarn, spun woolen from batts on a supported spindle, plied on a spinning wheel<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The advanced category was a cabled yarn, spun with two different colours of fluff from batts. I really like these colours, both individually and together.<\/p>\n

\"Two
Coloured batts for advanced category.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This time I chose to spin three of the singles in one colour and the fourth in the other colour. I dizzed the fiber through my needle gauge to get an even pre-draft. I spun the singles woolen in hope of a soft and airy result.<\/p>\n

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Dizzing with needle gauge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The spinning required lots of focus, again because the lack of lanolin and my not being used to it.<\/p>\n

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Cabled yarn spun woolen from dizzed batts on a spinning wheel. It got me a bronze medal in the advanced category.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The jury’s verdict was “An attractive combination of the colours in the cabling that gives an exciting speckledness to the knitting.” It was a real challenge spinning it and I’m very proud of my work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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It was a wonderful day. I met lots of people, cuddled with heaps and heaps of fleece and got the people's choice medal around my neck.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Spinning techniques"","block_context":{"text":"Spinning techniques","link":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/category\/spinning-techniques\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Four wool balls in white with brown and dark grey stripes.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_9030.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_9030.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_9030.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/IMG_9030.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":86,"url":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/spinning-with-the-sheep-in-the-pasture\/","url_meta":{"origin":302,"position":4},"title":"Spinning with the sheep in the pasture","author":"Josefin Waltin","date":"June 5, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"In October 2016 I made a video in the pasture at \u00d6verj\u00e4rva g\u00e5rd. Anna helped me with filming and we both had trouble moving our fingers due to the cold. Sheepwise, we didn't know quite what to expect. But two very friendly and curious ewes kept us company all through\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Spinning techniques"","block_context":{"text":"Spinning techniques","link":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/category\/spinning-techniques\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_8812.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_8812.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/IMG_8812.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":1974,"url":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/swedish-fleece-championships-2018\/","url_meta":{"origin":302,"position":5},"title":"Swedish fleece championships 2018","author":"Josefin Waltin","date":"September 22, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"I wrote earlier about the Swedish spinning championships 2018. This post is about the Swedish fleece championships 2018. A new dawn for Swedish wool?On the one hand, it is sad that so much of Swedish wool goes to waste. Over 80 % of Swedish wool is wasted (here is a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "For the love of"","block_context":{"text":"For the love of","link":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/category\/for-the-love-of\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_4725-e1537262704731.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_4725-e1537262704731.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_4725-e1537262704731.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/IMG_4725-e1537262704731.jpg?fit=900%2C1200&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":936,"href":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}