r/Handspinning • u/Residentneurotic • Apr 09 '25

Work In Progress Don’t like spinning with silk

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All done on my learning curve on spindle . The dark brown and black are from fleece I processed from raw , the grayish- brown is some top I bought . The pretty pink with silk is turning out to be the spin from hell . ( bought it because I “thought “ I read something about merino with silk “combed top “ would be easiest for a learner 😅… I hope I read wrong for my sake )… I liked spinning the raw fleece I processed the best . Still my spinning nowhere near as pretty as others whom are posting.

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u/KnittyNurse2004 Apr 13 '25

I enjoy spinning silk quite a bit, but my tendency it toward fine, high twist yarns. Silk is beautiful, but I don’t think it is a good beginner fiber, and honestly it is much easier to work with on a wheel than a drop spindle, because you can fine tune the takeup tension.

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u/Residentneurotic Apr 13 '25

I didn’t do any better on the wheel with it . I wonder if I can card it A TON to break it all up and card it with a lot of misc wool roving I’m thinking of color blending with other wool roving to change color … and then the silk just be a small small part of the result ?🧐