Sunday, February 26, 2012

first jo bobbin

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at last! it seemed like i  spun on this forever!  i’m told a full jo bobbin is 6 oz., but with the chip, let’s call it just under that.. i wound off the 25 or so wpi singles onto three storage bobbins and determined to ply two of them.DSCN3320

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but then i discovered jo doesn’t like to reverse!

i managed about 18 yds. on jo before throwing in the towel-- which is too bad, because look how nicely balanced it is.

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all  washed up it looks like this, 19 wpi, or just fingering weight.

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so, after much assistance from the ravellers, it was determined that plying might better be done on liz.

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and it was a breeze and i stuffed the bobbin

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but i was amazed to find that i’d used up almost all of each one!

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and when i wound it off, it only came to 178 yds.,

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and twisted Z quite badly.:(

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it’s not as soft, either, being over plied, i guess (i treadled 4 twist and 4 takeup, but perhaps i should have stuck with the 3/3 i did in jo; i thought i’d need to compensate for her smaller drive wheel…)  but we’ll see what happens after washing.  i weighed it on my highly accurate kitchen scale (!) and it came  to only about 3oz.

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so that means that the whole bobbin was barely 5 ozs?  and that will give me around 300 yds. per bobbin, is that right?  actually seems pretty close to what i was getting on liz, alone, or so it seems to me.

more practice!

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