Complete the following activities:
1. Discuss how to determine the amount of twist per inch (2.54 cm)
and its relation to twist angle.
2. Discuss the importance of determining the number of yards per
pound (meters per kilogram).
3. Discuss how spun size and finished size varies from fiber to
fiber among yarn styles.
4. Describe how the handspinner determines how much yarn to spin for
a particular project.
I hope I am not the only spinner in the world
who learned to spin and lived over 15yrs of her spinning life with no
concern for any of this except for #2. Obviously you need to
know yards per pound right? But on a real life basis, if you know
what type of yarn you want and you know it will work for your project
because you've spun it a hundred times before......do you really, daily,
fiddle with gauges and measures and calculations.....or do you just
spin???? I think this became the crux of my difficulties in
completing the COE work. In retrospect several months post
submission, I realize they were asking me in some instances to explain
things that I do but not on a conscious level.
Well, I got full points for the written work.
The actual duplications......ouch. While my duplications would
probably work, they were not exact causing deductions. Note:
I submitted my COE using U.S. weights and measures. One of the
examiner's was weighing in metric. It probably would have been
better to have submitted my work using metric weights and measures--I
might not have given up some points. Other comments from the
examiners included differences in fleece properties between the wool I
chose to use and whatever kind was in the commercial yarn. I tried
to stay as close as possible to grade but the variances in loft and
bulking cost me points.
