#Barberpole

[abuddyforeveryseason]

Gif! This is the Buddy for August 24th, and it's a gif! Continuing the chain of monstrous Buddies, this Buddy has monstrously short hair.

There are two interesting things about today's drawing - first, it's animated, and the way I animated that barbershop pole was by having a pole twice as long on a layer under the main drawing, with the pole itself being the only transparend segment. Then I lowered the pole until the upmost segment on the first frame was at the lowest point on the pole. It's funny because barber's poles spin in a way that makes it look like the stripes are moving in one direction and disappearing, but for the gif, I actually had the stripes move down, to make it look like the pole is spinning in that familiar way.

The other thing about this drawing is the trees in the background. I'm usually pretty lazy about drawing backgrounds, and the worst part is, I find it hard to draw realistic backgrounds. I've been going to barbershops my entire life, and there are even several shops in my neighborhood, but when it was time to draw something that was identifiable as one, I just gave up and put the trees there. Is the barbershop in the middle of the woods? Is it like a magical thing, where people need to brave a forest to get a nice haircut?

I should just have used a picture reference.

[tenthousandtangles]

Tangle A Day Calendar 2024 - January 14

Pattern - “Barberpole” by Suzanne McNeill

[andredias95]

838. CigarKings Dos Colores Limited Edition 2023

Gifted by Philipp Kugler, owner of CigarKings. Location: This review was made indoors in a cigar lounge.Information:Wrapper: Ecuadorian Connecticut Shade & Ecuadorian Sumatra Colorado Binder: 2x Nicaraguan Jalapa CorojoFiller: Nicaraguan Jalapa Corojo Seco & Estelí Habano 2000 VisoOrigin: Nicaragua Factory: Undisclosed (Nicaragua)Box: Sold in 12 count boxes. Release: 2023Availability: Limited…

[st-louis]

the heritage collection

[milkweedman]

you seem to do a lot of natural dyeing, so i was wondering: is it better to dye wool as roving or after it is spun? im new to spinning but not to dyeing, but ive only ever dyed pre spun wool

it's entirely a matter of preference. dyeing in different preps can give you different options for how the yarn turns out, and some people prefer to dye one way or another because they're worried about felting or because it seems like less of a hassle.

dyeing as yarn: easy to speckle (just tie resist bands). the fiber is in a pretty robust state and many people feel it's less likely to felt. the fiber will be white (or whatever undyed color) as you spin it, which some enjoy and some do not.

dyeing as roving: the fiber is already colored when you spin it (again, for some this is preferable and for others it's not). not super difficult to modify using the rest of your stash as you turn it into yarn (for example you could dye a red roving and then whilst spinning add in occasional bits of blue). you may end up with sections that are darker or lighter and can rearrange them to make different effects if you wish.

dyeing as washed fleece: the fiber is colored before processing and dyeing it. you will end up with darker and lighter sections of fleece which can be neutralized or enhanced. you can easily add in more colors or textures if you have any tools (a pair of hand cards is an absolute spinning game changer and can never be introduced too early, and they're the cheapest fiber tools to start out with).

there are a few other considerations, such as: you will typically get deeper and more vibrant colors when dyeing in the wool vs. in the yarn, but in my experience it's not a huge difference. and i always end up with tangled yarn no matter what i do, but you can't tangle a fleece (and can just pull apart roving to untangle if you manage it). other considerations might be if you plan to throw the dye material in with the fiber--it's a lot easier to pick leaves out of yarn than out of fleece soup. and on very delicate fleeces or fleeces with really beautiful distinct locks i might wait to dye until i've already processed the fleece, since dyeing can jumble fleeces and cause locks to lose their distinctness.

and this is just wrt natural dyeing in a dye pot (as that's what I do and it's what you brought up). if you do acid dyes you can get lots of different effects dyeing one way or another. or you can dye locks one color at one end and a different at the other and get somewhat iridescent yarn because each individual fiber is a different color at each point. you can even dye as top, rolags, or batts. you can paint roving or yarn, each to different effects. you can dye a fleece multiple colors at different points. etc.

TL;DR: there isn't one correct way or one better way, there's only preferences and desired effects. you should experiment with all the different ways to dye as a spinner that interest you and find out what methods you enjoy and what methods are better kept as something to do only because it produces the desired effect.

[viciousvales]

riddle spoilers under the cut

has anyone figured out the answer to "who defeated silas birchtree--?"

silas has a pamphlet on the CULTS page. The most logical "answer" i can get it to accept is "ciphertology" which results in either "keep an open mind" or "curiosity"

i also entered the cipher on the page - "say baaaa" - which brought up a creepy poem, and Another cipher that read "black sheep". but typing in black sheep just brings up "a test of patience" which is... staring at a barberpole waiting for bill to "come back"

[startenthousand]

Y'ALL.

A little more barberpole than I was hoping for in some places but LOOK AT THIS OMBRE IT IS GORGEOUS and it's a proper fingering-weight too I am in LOVE 🥰

Fingers crossed that the second sock's worth comes out as nicely but I am very encouraged and very pleased.

(Ignore the lighting change, I don't control the rate at which the sun sets)

[disgruntled-lifeform]

So my current wheel spin is this Merino/Silk blend and it looks lovely right?

Well, I need some help from my fellow spinsters(affectionate).

I have noticed that the lovely blue silk has a tendency to get hidden and muddled in the spin.

I try to hold the fibre with the silk more top-facing and it sometimes barberpolls when I do but mostly it ends up somehow as the core of the spin.

When I draft too thin, the silk just gets muddled but I don't want it too thick as I'm aiming for a 2 ply worsted for my final product.

I have been pulling sections from the braid and then splitting that section in half and spinning with it that way so that I don't thin the silk out too much.

Does anyone have tips for coercing your fibre to present in a certain way?

Am I even making sense?

[raychelsnr]

A stunning "barberpole" low-precipitation (LP) supercell thunderstorm in central Nebraska near Oconto. June 2020 While it may appear innocuous it dropped three-inch hail in the area.

[gold-from-straw]

Dyed some scoured wool with blackberries (grey) and elderberries (a surprisingly bright pink), then prepared and spun them in stripes. I’m hoping to get a mix of barberpole and stripes when I make a 2 ply!

[spatsandcravats]

I finished plying my new trans yarns :)

The major spin is a 2 ply. It was supposed to follow the blue/pink/white/pink/blue repeat twice, but I just eyeballed the fiber instead of weighing it so I have one good repeat and then the second one got very barberpole-y which is fun. I think I want to make some sort of small triangle scarf, but it's only 140 yards, so we'll see.

I had a couple of test bobbins so I chain plied those singles with mixed success. I'm still struggling with chain plying on my espinner. :p No idea what to do with these... dice bags maybe?

[andredias95]

731. Leonel Barber Pole Limited Edition 2022

Bought at YXTobak in Borås, Sweden.Location: This review was made indoors in a cigar lounge.Information:Wrapper: Honduras & USA Connecticut Binder: Honduras Filler: Honduras & Nicaragua Origin: Honduras Factory: Undisclosed (Honduras)Box: Sold in 10 count boxes. Release: 2022Availability: Limited Production Size: 6×54, ToroWrapper: Milk chocolate brown and with streaks of lighter brown. Oily and…

[guardevoir]

Alrighty! Decision hour, part 1!

Bonus info: I don't have a project in mind yet, and these 100g are all I have and all I'm ever gonna get; the dangers of getting the last braid for cheap alas. I do love barberpole striping and colors coming together, but I'm admittedly more fond of long gradients in finished projects.

Bonus info for the uninitiated: Fractal spinning.

[st-louis]

i can’t believe tricolore sports is doing this to me

[milkweedman]

I'm packing and found a piece of longwool fleece that I remember dyeing with foraged blackberries and homemade copper mordant. Just a small piece, probably less than an ounce/20ish grams. And like yeah look I in fact have over a dozen fleeces I've naturally dyed sitting around BUT each piece is a little bit precious. By the time it's spun up it will have been worked on with hands for like well over 24 hours, all told. That's a lot of effort.

Anyway, was worried I would forget what it was and just blend it into random stuff. I really try not to do that and to keep my naturally dyed fleece separate from the acid and rit dyed fleeces. So I carded it into 5 rolags and carded 5 more from an older jacob fleece that I love to death. Not sure how I'll do it yet but I'm thinking 2 ply barberpole to make another bag. We'll see !

Don't know if I'll do it for TDF or when I'll spin it. It looks fun, but carding 10 rolags was a very bad idea lol.

[snd-arts]

Speaking of spinning decorative spider webbing, and ornaments:

A couple years back, around easter, a dollarstore near me had packages of "basket filler", which was basically just that fake spider web stuff but not white. So I spun up the yellow, pink, and green into singles and barberpoled them together. It's a soft yarn, ~bulky weight, lots of fuzz and little coils coming off it. Never really had anything I wanted to make with it since I just spun it to see if I could.

So I crocheted this snowflake the other day, finally using it up. I should probably block it out but I haven't gotten around to that.