Thank you to everyone who bought me a virtual coffee last week. I love helping people learn about fibre arts... I also have to pay the bills! A lot of work goes into these videos so if you found it helpful, please consider supporting the channel by: joining my Patreon: www.patreon.com/TinyFibreStudio or buying me a ‘virtual coffee’ via my Ko-Fi account : www.ko-fi.com/tinyfibrestudio Thank you! Electric Eel 6 rewinding device www.dreamingrobots.com/eew-3d-printed-parts/ (follow the link to 'get files we've designed') 00:00 Intro 00:57 Irish tension/bobbin led 01:09 Louet S10C 02:46 Schacht Matchless Irish Tension 04:17 Double drive 04:33 The Herring Wheel 05:25 Schacht Matchless double drive 05:51 Creator message 06:19 Scotch tension 07:08 Schacht Sidekick 07:55 A Schacht Sidekick discovery 08:30 Ashford Traditional 09:20 Wheels I wouldn't recommend 10:01 eSpinners and other options 10:44 Conclusion
You had asked for us to add our wheels to the list of wheels that can be arranged to run a single onto the bobbin. I don't know if any commenters have mentioned the Ashford Kiwi 3. However, I have one, and I was able to figure out how to make it work so only the bobbin spun. I ran the drive band over the back of the bobbin, and the rest of the drive band ran on the middle groove of the wheel. I tried it around the smallest wheel groove, which was closer to the bobbin, but it was slipping off, so too loose. The Kiwi 3 is set up so that the back of the bobbin and the wheel are "almost" on top of each other, so no real danger of damage to my wheel. Thank you so much for sharing this video!
Hi Diedra, thanks for your comment. Unfortunately the ‘quick’ preface would have been as long as the video itself since there are so many potential reasons. As mentioned, that’s all in the previous video czcams.com/video/BzisQqB6bPw/video.html Hope that’s useful.
Oh yeah! I do this all the time. I use this technique to count my yarn and wind it on then take another bobbin and wind off half to that bobbin then use those two bobbins to ply with onto my other bobbin and I already know how much I will have when done and I don't need to count when done. All my wheels will allow me to do this. Figured this out years ago.
Loved the itty-bitty violin :)). I have a Kiwi 3, and I usually just stick a dowel with duct tape at one end into the orifice, put an empty bobbin on it with a binder clip over the dowel in front of it to hold it in place, and treadle away. Not quite as easy as on an Irish tension or DD, but pretty simple and works well enough. :)
I have this wheel too, I wondered if it would be too much stress on the brake to tighten so that it does not twist as your treadle. I've done it a couple of times (!) and just worry about the spring on the brake knob-tension system wearing out too fast. @tinyfibrestudio- I would love any thoughts you have on that!
You can use a ashford Traditional to rewind yarn. Take the maiden off and then use a round chop stick or something similar to put through the bobbin and then attach the drive band to the bobbin.
I haven't tried this yet, but I have a Lendrum DT scotch tension wheel and I was thinking about taking the flyer off and using a 5.5mm straight knitting needle as a shaft so that the bobbin will be better aligned with the wheel....I will be careful!
I think you are about the best spinning teach out there! When we rewind a bobbin, does it then make the yarn twist in a different direction? So if we spun 'z' then rewind, is the yarn still spun 'z' and can then be plied "S"? or it is now 'S' spun and needs to be plied "Z"?
❤️ Thank you for the huge compliment! Great question. The twist remains in the same direction so you don’t need to change anything about your plying. This fact messed with my head when I first started spinning but if you write a ‘Z’ or ‘S’ on a piece of paper and turn it upside down, the diagonal remains in the same direction.
Thank you to everyone who bought me a virtual coffee last week. I love helping people learn about fibre arts... I also have to pay the bills! A lot of work goes into these videos so if you found it helpful, please consider supporting the channel by:
joining my Patreon: www.patreon.com/TinyFibreStudio or buying me a ‘virtual coffee’ via my Ko-Fi account : www.ko-fi.com/tinyfibrestudio Thank you!
Electric Eel 6 rewinding device www.dreamingrobots.com/eew-3d-printed-parts/ (follow the link to 'get files we've designed')
00:00 Intro
00:57 Irish tension/bobbin led
01:09 Louet S10C
02:46 Schacht Matchless Irish Tension
04:17 Double drive
04:33 The Herring Wheel
05:25 Schacht Matchless double drive
05:51 Creator message
06:19 Scotch tension
07:08 Schacht Sidekick
07:55 A Schacht Sidekick discovery
08:30 Ashford Traditional
09:20 Wheels I wouldn't recommend
10:01 eSpinners and other options
10:44 Conclusion
You had asked for us to add our wheels to the list of wheels that can be arranged to run a single onto the bobbin. I don't know if any commenters have mentioned the Ashford Kiwi 3. However, I have one, and I was able to figure out how to make it work so only the bobbin spun. I ran the drive band over the back of the bobbin, and the rest of the drive band ran on the middle groove of the wheel. I tried it around the smallest wheel groove, which was closer to the bobbin, but it was slipping off, so too loose. The Kiwi 3 is set up so that the back of the bobbin and the wheel are "almost" on top of each other, so no real danger of damage to my wheel. Thank you so much for sharing this video!
Thank you!! I managed to do it with an Ashford Kiwi 3 which is a Scotch tension.
That Herring Wheel is really neat. I want one. I love the design. Nice piece of functional furniture. Also a visual piece of art work.
A quick preface as to why and when you would rewind a bobbin would have been helpful to me. When I figure that out, I’ll rewatch!
Hi Diedra, thanks for your comment. Unfortunately the ‘quick’ preface would have been as long as the video itself since there are so many potential reasons. As mentioned, that’s all in the previous video
czcams.com/video/BzisQqB6bPw/video.html Hope that’s useful.
Thanks so much. I'll watch and learn. 😊
All new information to me. Thank you so very much.
I agree!
Oh yeah! I do this all the time. I use this technique to count my yarn and wind it on then take another bobbin and wind off half to that bobbin then use those two bobbins to ply with onto my other bobbin and I already know how much I will have when done and I don't need to count when done. All my wheels will allow me to do this. Figured this out years ago.
Loved the itty-bitty violin :)). I have a Kiwi 3, and I usually just stick a dowel with duct tape at one end into the orifice, put an empty bobbin on it with a binder clip over the dowel in front of it to hold it in place, and treadle away. Not quite as easy as on an Irish tension or DD, but pretty simple and works well enough. :)
Hi. I'm very interested to see a pic of that as I have the same wheel.
I have this wheel too, I wondered if it would be too much stress on the brake to tighten so that it does not twist as your treadle. I've done it a couple of times (!) and just worry about the spring on the brake knob-tension system wearing out too fast. @tinyfibrestudio- I would love any thoughts you have on that!
It's so good to see you again. Your videos are always so interesting and useful.
I just had a quick look at my Kiwi 2. I think it could work if I had a slightly looser drive band than the poly one it comes with.
You can use a ashford Traditional to rewind yarn. Take the maiden off and then use a round chop stick or something similar to put through the bobbin and then attach the drive band to the bobbin.
I have a double band wheel and frequently use it for winding bobbins before plying. Good video👍.
Wonderful information! Thank you for the detailed explanation.
So brilliant!
Thanks Andrea! 🧶❤️
I haven't tried this yet, but I have a Lendrum DT scotch tension wheel and I was thinking about taking the flyer off and using a 5.5mm straight knitting needle as a shaft so that the bobbin will be better aligned with the wheel....I will be careful!
I think you are about the best spinning teach out there! When we rewind a bobbin, does it then make the yarn twist in a different direction? So if we spun 'z' then rewind, is the yarn still spun 'z' and can then be plied "S"? or it is now 'S' spun and needs to be plied "Z"?
❤️ Thank you for the huge compliment! Great question. The twist remains in the same direction so you don’t need to change anything about your plying. This fact messed with my head when I first started spinning but if you write a ‘Z’ or ‘S’ on a piece of paper and turn it upside down, the diagonal remains in the same direction.
The tiny violin took me out 😂
😂 It had to be done!