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Blending a wool gradient using ‘linear blending’

Kathryn Craftmehappy 1,072 3 years ago
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This video accompanies a blog post I’ve written, explaining a method I'm calling 'linear blending' You can read more about it here - https://www.craftmehappy.com/2022/01/linear-blending-wool-gradient.html. I may or may not have invented a method for easily blending my own gradients or ombre yarns using a simple method of reading the required percentage value off a graph. Here, I’m using a pair of mini wool combs that I made myself. You can read how I made them on my blog here - https://www.craftmehappy.com/2021/12/diy-3d-printed-mini-wool-combs-spinning.html Chapters or timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:29 graphing out the colour ratios 0:54 showing the colours needed to blend a pastel peach colour 1:19 Loading the mini wool combs 1:40 combing the merino wool on mini wool combs 4:07 drafting the pastel coloured merino wool off the mini wool combs 5:03 demonstrating spinning blended fibre to make a yarn that will be equivalent to a 4ply/fingering weight yarn 5:31 showing the Hansencrafts Minispinner rotating 5:46 Finished singles on the Hansencrafts Minispinner 5:49 A chain plied ball ready for adding the anti-clockwise ply twist 5:46 The finished gradient yarn 6:03 Finished gradient yarn wound into a cake ball

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