Great video ~ I’m a new spinner and this was very helpful.

This is such a great and clear video! I'm freshly out in the wild with my first Turkish spindle (also my first ever spindle) and my next goal is chain plying!

Hi Sara, thanks for the demo about the support spindle angle. I really helped. I have a questions about 3-ply, which you might have already answered since I'm fairly new to your channel. With 2-ply, if I have some spun fiber left, I can make a ply ball and finish plying that. With a 3-ply, what do you do when you have different bits left on one or two of the bobbins? Is there a way you can integrate them on your 3-ply, or is it bound to become just leftovers? Thanks again for you patience and your amazing generosity in sharing your knowledge with us.

You are a wonderful teacher. This was just what I was looking for, thank you!

I just started learning to spin this week and this video is sooooo unbelievably helpful! Thank you so so much 😭❤️

Thank you for sharing! ❤

Hi Sara, I enjoy your podcast. Could you tell me about your spinning bag on the wheel?

Just found your site and really enjoyed the video today. Your camera work is excellent making everything you’re explaining clear. As a possible future topic, I’d be interested in hearing your ideas for living with an antique or vintage wheel that only has one bobbin. What ways are there to store The spun yarn while you’re working on the next bobbin full in order to ply. I’ve been winding it onto a ball winder but find tensioning the yarn for plying not as successful as I would like. Thanks again, great channel!

Thank you so much for this info, I found it interesting and helpful. Your videos are always so clear with great detail.

Thanks for those demonstrations! And every single one of the upcoming videos/topics you mentioned I am 100% interested in. I can’t wait!

Hello, I am a new spinner going on 3 weeks. Trying to watch different videos to try to teach myself since I can’t find anyone here to take classes. Your video is very helpful on my thick and thin strands and to get enough twist in the thick parts it makes the thin parts a kinky mess. I have subscribed to your channel so I don’t lose this video. Thank you so much. Is there a way to show on the thicker sections about how much twist is enough to hold the yarn? So I don’t under twist or over twist? Thank you so much for your help. 🥰

Cool!

This really helped it click for me as a beginner spinner! Thank you!

What a wonderful video. Thank you. I understand how to do a ply-back test for a two ply. But what is the equivalent for a 3 ply (is it to do a chain ply sample?).

It soulds like building a temporary cop is to some spinners what swatching is to some knitters.

This is new to me n I understand it fairly well but I do have to ask two things. One why would someone want to spin their own yarn? And once you reach the end how do you go about reattaching another batch?

What is meant by a 'slippage'?

do you have a vid on how to remove your spun fibre from the cob? Thank you Sara XXXX

I have truly loved all of the boxes from this club.

Because you asked- I really would like to see any of your final spun fibers from the fiber club

I've been thinking about joining the seasons fiber club.

Really pretty colors again. When I saw the green braid I too said, “has she gotten green every time?” 😂

Hi Sara, I hope you're OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️ Thankyou so much for sharing this Unboxing video . I love the colours in all the Braids. We had our first Autumn Frost , this past Saturday morning, in the part of England where I live. ❄️ Now its poured with rain all day today ( Monday).☔️ Hope you have a Wonderful Week 🌟✨️🌞 Happy Spinning Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐈‍⬛🫂

Love the color way!

Can anyone tell me what BFL is? I’m new to this, maybe I missed it? 😊

Thanks for this excellent description of drafting. 👍👍I’m a new subscriber 🧶🧶🧶

Hi Sara, awesome video!! I learned so much from splitting the fiber (never seen this method) to plying from center pull ball (again never seen this method). And your finished yarn is beautiful! Looks like you didn’t pre draft or diz your fiber. Was it easy to draft? Does any pre drafting depend on the fiber? Thank you so much for the video!!

Hey Sara, Thank you so much for answering my questions! I looked up the Majacraft and I'm green with envy. The answers to the two other questions I had were equally illuminating. I always learn something when I listen to your episodes. I wouldn't have been able to learn how to spin ( including on a support spindle) without your wisdom. Thanks again.

That's definitely one way to minimize waste. I just weigh out my fiber on a scale before spinning, and since I spin consistently I'm usually super close on the two bobbins. In the rare event that one bobbin has enough left that I can bracelet ply a few yards, I just do that.

Counting yardage: for people working with the metric system, it’s a lot simpler to figure out how much yarn you have. Generally, a niddy noddy has a known amount of centimetres one full revolution equals to. Amount of revolutions (wraps) x centimetres per revolution = total centimetres. Total centimetres divided by 100 = how many metres you’ve approximately got. Generally, the skein is formed before finishing which means you’ll lose length after finishing. The only way to find out a more precise approximation is to re-wind your skein after finishing. If I really, REALLY want to bother I’ll finish my yarn, ball it up using a ball winder, re-skein and re-do the math. But I will only do that if I’m not sure I’ll have enough.

Great episode thank you

I'd be so curious to know, if you could demonstrate on a skein of yours the "final" yardage by both methods to see the difference. As in just counting the loops and knowing the length of your niddy noddy (how I always do it) versus measuring from the middle, times 2 divided by 36. Maybe I'll give that a try next time I finish a spin to see how it compares.

Thank you for this video. New spinner (February of this year) and I have been able to get thinner and thinner (last yarn I made was approximately fingerling when 2-ply) and I couldn't figure out how to get thicker again! This is a huge help!

I am just getting started with support spindles and one thing I have not seen a good video on is exactly what you are doing to wind the yarn onto the temporary cop. It almost looks like it goes on automatically like on a wheel but I haven't been able to figure out how to do that.

The BEST joining video EVER!!! Thanks!!! ❤

I recently bought my first support spindle and am watching lots of videos to see different techniques. It’s hard for me to see where you are positioning the yarn at the tip when the spindle is spinning. It looks like the yarn is horizontal to the tip rather than off the tip as the spindle is rotating. But doesn’t that stop the spindle from spinning and therefore cause the yarn to wrap around the shaft?

Yes you have totally enabled me. I signed up for the greenwood box of the month, and just received the first box. I love the colors, and am excited to spin this brown and blue bfl. How are you going to spin yours?

I grew up in Utah, but have lived on the East coast for about 5 years. Antelope Island is in the Great Salt Lake and truly has bison galore. I LOVE Greenwood’s BFL. I hope you do too!!

So much fun to see your process. This has me eyeing a braid of Wound Up fiber in my stash and itching to get my hands on it. I am going to be disciplined though and finish plying the 2 pounds of morritt Shetland currently on my bobbins! 🤣.

I've gotten many bfl from her and I love it!! You'll love it.

I told you I didn’t hate her BFL 😂 Those are beautiful colors too!

Extremely Helpful! Thank You 😊

I see you are also a nail polish fan! Is that Mooncat I see? 😆

Hi Sara, thanks for the video. I always learn something from you and you've improved my spinning (wheel and spindles) tremendously. I have sooo many questions, but I'm going to limit myself to two (or maybe three): what was the name of the wheel you spun on? The transcript says "rose" but I imagine that's not its name. Is there any reason you used only one bobbin instead of two for plying? And do you count your turns on your niddy-noddy to know how much yardage you have? Thanks again for all your great videos.🙏🙂

This is so beautiful! I am a beginning spinner and also self taught. The way that you spin is exactly how I do it. It made me feel much better about myself, I must say! Thank you for sharing your process. It is very inspiring!

It's beautiful!

I’m a beginner and want to say thank you for your detailed videos! I understand so much better what I was doing right and what I was doing wrong. I really want to try supported spinning now! ❤

Hu Sara, I hope you're OK xx ❣️❣️❣️ Thankyou so much for sharing this video podcast, and your process from "Start to Finished Handspun Yarn " It looks amazing and so beautiful. You made me chuckle when you took that "stray bit" out showed it to the camera and then quickly throw it down. Also thanks for sharing your Centre Pull Cake/Ball technique. I usually only make them for small amounts of 2ply Handspun but will definitely be using your technique in future. Thankyou so much for sharing your expertise, you're very much appreciated, for sharing everything you do. ✨️🌟🌞🌞 I don't mind what videos you do has there's always something to learn from them.🙂🤔😊 Hope you have a Wonderful Weekend🔆✨️🌞 Happy Spinning Fibre Friend 🎡🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love and Big Hugs Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🫂🫂

Than you thank you thank you!💜 I've been trying to find a video that explains this for a few months now and this just randomly popped into my recommendations! Instant subscribe! Now off to see your other videos 😄