untonuggan: a drop spindle and the products of my first week of spinning (7 balls of yarn in various colors) (spinning week 1)
lizcommotion ([personal profile] untonuggan) wrote2013-02-14 10:21 pm
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UpGoerFive: Spinning Edition

For those of you wondering what, exactly, one does when spinning, here is the best UpGoerFive version I could come up with (that is, using the 10,000 most commonly used words). There are many details that are lacking, obviously, but I think it gets the basic idea across...

I put a piece of animal hair on a thing that turns. I turn the thing and the turning goes up the hair. The turn makes the hair smaller and stronger. When it stops turning, I put the animal hair around a stick on the thing that turns. I do this for a long time, until I have a very long piece of small and strong animal hair. Then I can call it finished, or I can make it more strong by turning two or more animal hairs together on the thing that turns. When I decide it is finished, I have to make it wet. If I don't, the turn can come out. I put the long, strong, animal hair in hot water with a thing that cleans it and make the water move around. Then I take it out and hit the animal hair against something. After it dries, I can use the turned animal hair to make clothes or other things.

[personal profile] indywind 2013-02-15 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
up goer 5 + spinning = win