ThePaintedTiger | February 15, 2010
Hello! I’ve been busy busy busy dyeing between the Mystery Shawl Along, and getting ready for Sheep in the City (which is next week already, yikes!). I’ve also been making batts while the skeins of Zephyr for the shawl along have been rewinding (1200 yards at speed slow…..zzzzzzzzzz). I’m particularly proud of these (so much [...]
ThePaintedTiger | November 21, 2009
Today’s photo tutorial will focus on making a layered batt, which results in a multi-color roving when pulled….either straight from the swift of the drum carder, or made later by zig-zag tearing the batt. If you haven’t joined me for one of these before, the carder is a Big Tom from Ron Anderson at Fancy [...]
ThePaintedTiger | October 30, 2009
For today’s Fiber Friday, I’m going to take you on another photo adventure with my Big Tom drum carder by Ron nderson at Fancy Kitty (no affiliation, just a happy customer). Up to now, I’ve been carding medium domestic wool, and it has done a great job. Big Tom currently comes standard with 120 tpi [...]
ThePaintedTiger | October 2, 2009
For today’s Fiber Friday, I’m going to focus on my new drum carder, Big Tom. I’m not going to call this a review, since I don’t have any way to test this out side by side with any other carder. Instead I’ll call it a ‘tour’, and you can join me as I put Tom [...]
ThePaintedTiger | September 24, 2009
One of the fun bits of being in the fiber business is that you get to receive very large boxes of stuff. I know my children appreciate it, as they get to make a number of box cars, space ships, etc. Well today is my birthday, and whether I subconsciously worked it out this way [...]
ThePaintedTiger | April 29, 2009
Ready for more drum carding photo blogging? This time I’ve taken some mill ends from my Brown Sheep box. This is the same fiber that is spun into Lamb’s Pride. 85% wool, split between mostly red, and a bit black, and 15% white mohair. Some of this pile has very long fibers, and other areas [...]
ThePaintedTiger | March 27, 2009
Never thought I’d get to actually spinning this, did you? Well, here it goes. I discovered that my diz made this huge honking roving that was just way too huge to spin from directly (at least for me, and for trying to get the two color layers to be taken up somewhat evenly), so I [...]
ThePaintedTiger | March 24, 2009
Here’s the part where I actually end up with roving!!! To catch you up….here’s where I left off. One batt of pale green, and another batt of pale blue, carded up on my Fancy Kitty Kitten drum carder. I ripped these both in half and set one half of each aside. Then I slowly fed [...]
ThePaintedTiger | March 10, 2009
Here’s the second half of that top I am working on. This time, the blue pile. This first picture is fairly accurate on color. You can see the ribbon of mohair being kinda shiny running down the top. One benefit to carding…..it gives you a chance to find and pick out the occasional sheep hair. [...]
ThePaintedTiger | March 6, 2009
Armed with my trusty Deb Menz book, Color in Spinning, I have decided to play about with some of my dyed top. For my first victim project I have chosen this pale green and blue top which is an 85% wool and 15% mohair blend from Carol who carries the Brown Sheep mill ends. I [...]
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