I decided to break out my Hitchhiker spinning wheel to ply my 2025 Pigskin Party spinning project.
I got all three bobbins situated on my lazy kate under small but of tension. I chose my Hitchhiker because it came with a jumbo flyer and bobbin.
I rarely use this wheel as it is single treadle and not as intuitive for me to use. And this go around I ended up needing to replace the tension spring before I could go very far. Eventually I got going and consistently in the correct direction.
I am pretty sure I have enough fiber I will need to fill this jumbo bobbin and let it rest to take off the first skein before I can do the second. I am confident 12 ounces is too much for this.
Happy Spinning!!
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It’s nice to have a wheel with a jumbo bobbin, I broke down this year and bought the jumbo bobbin set up for my Kromski Polonaise wheel for plying, it’s hard to to even put 4 ozs of plyed yarn on a reg bobbin anymore without it feeling like it will overflow. It seems to hold 2 ozs fine with room to spare but when you ply it’s sluggish to get the 4 ozs on the reg bobbin.
Looking forward to your finished ply 🙂
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