Mittens made of sheep or dog hair, a hat made of delicate rabbit down will always warm your baby. Therefore, try to learn how to spin and make wonderful threads with your own hands, in which a piece of your warmth will remain.
Instructions
Step 1
Prepare the wool. To do this, carefully sort through it. Throw away very tangled pieces. Comb the coat. To do this, use a sparse, blunt-toothed comb. Put on it in bundles of six and stretch in different directions. Fold the resulting strands and comb again. Do this until most of the wool fibers are aligned in one direction. Next, roll into a tow and tie to a spinning wheel. You can use the back of the chair.
Step 2
Take a spindle and sit on the bottom of a spinning wheel or near a chair with a tow tied to it. Tie a cotton thread about 50 cm long to the bottom of the spindle (heel). Next, make it several turns clockwise and secure with a sliding knot.
Step 3
Pull some wool out of the tow and tie it with cotton thread. To do this, stretch six fibers and twist together with the thread, while turning the spindle several times clockwise.
Step 4
Now start spinning. Hold the spindle with three fingers on the upper part (toe) with your right hand, you can use your left hand, as you like, and rotate it clockwise. Simultaneously pull the hair out of the tow with 2-3 fingers with the other hand.
Step 5
Be careful, the string should always be connected to the tow. If it breaks, then eliminate the break by putting the fibers on top of each other and making a few turns with a spindle.
Step 6
After you get a twisted long thread, wind it around the spindle. To do this, remove the loop of the knot, wind the yarn and secure it again with the slip knot. Continue spinning in this way until a large skein forms on the spindle and becomes uncomfortable to work with. Roll the threads into a ball and start spinning again.
