r/Handspinning

I am starting my first sweater soon. It will be a Combospin with mainly merino but also a bit of Corriedale, BFL and Polwarth. The Merino has a very low staple length (5cm; 2 inches). I am used to a ratio of 10:1 with one treadle per draft. I suppose I would have to be a lot faster with the merino.
How do you spin your merino? Ratio, treadle per draft…
Would be really thankful for answers!

Hi all!

Newer spinner here. I am interested in learning to spin different types of fibers, such as silk, rose fiber, or cashmere.

Where do I find reputable sellers of such fibers? I see such different prices across websites that I'm not sure who is legit or overcharging.

I am located in the US

Beware of grieving pet owners wanting their dog’s fur spun. I was trying to do a meaningful favor for someone I trusted as a friend from Instagram. And I learned a scary lesson that has included being threatened and harassed by tons of accounts they sent after me after spreading malicious lies. I have already refunded the money in full as soon they started threatening me this morning after and told them I will ship it multiple times as soon as I can. I sent a photo proving it’s not damaged and asked them to stop posting lies and inciting their followers to come after me or I will need to file a police report if this continues. The email response was basically they’ll blast me if they want to as it’s my fault for being online.

I spent around 60hours picking vm and dog waste matter by hand from 70oz of fur and weighing it all plus weighing 4lbs of Rambouillet into 2 oz for batts. because I was too scared to wash it and felt it. They switched personalities over night on my birthday the 29th and started coming up with ridiculous lies like I said I could process spin and knit 70oz of dog hair in less than 3 months. The lies have been much scarier and threatening and I had to make my long time insta account private and block and screenshot a lot of threats before I figured out how to do that stop the messages.

I’ve never been involved in a large online harassment situation and it brings me a lot of extra fear and anxiety surrounding safety that I don’t need added in top of already being out on FMLA surgery for endometriosis and fibroids and trying to stay positive with the care for monitoring a rare STUMP tumor found during surgery. I’m only 2 weeks post op and this started on my birthday.

It’s okay I am stupid for doing this I know and will only spin for myself from now on.

I would love to hear any stories anyone else has had spinning for a friend or customer that you really regret.

I used the gender neutral pronoun to describe the friend/customer to make it more anonymous. I don’t need their cruelty getting more views but they obviously don’t care about that. I don’t care about being believed just venting with people who know how long fiber arts takes and have also learned hard lessons before.