How to avoid Spinning Mud #3 Close up of Spinning from the fold to avoid optical blending

This video accompanies my blog post on exploring different spinning and fibre preparation methods for spinning a multicolored blended top. If you’ve ever spun a blend of fibres that contains colours from all the way around the colour wheel, you will know that it is very easy for your yarn to turn out muddy, or grey if you don’t spin it using a method that intentionally keeps the non-analogous colours separate. In my blog post, I explore 9 different methods and I made videos of my 4 favourite methods. To read more about this, and other methods, take a look at my blog post here - Timestamps 0:00 Introduction 0:12 Breaking off a short section to spin from 0:20 Opening up the top to separate out the colours 0:26 Wrap it around my finger 0:34 Beginning to spin from the fold 2:59 The final yarn
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