DIY Diz!

This week I learned something new:  it is possible to pre-draft wool fiber through a diz!  What is a diz?  It is some small flat or curved "thing" with different sized holes in it which you can use to pull roving through or pull smooth fiber off wool combs to turn it into roving.  I wondered if I could use a large button to pull fiber through.  Yes, you can!

This is a plastic button that is about 1.25" in diameter (is diameter straight across?  I seem to have forgotten some of the fine points of math!). I used a 2.5 mm crochet hook to pull a little end of roving through one of the holes.  I then pulled the fiber with my left hand and held the fiber on the other side with a bit of tension on it to pre-draft the roving and make it easier to spin.  This worked like a charm AND the spinning is much more consistent.  Makes me happy.

This is what the "nest" looks like after dizzing it off:

So light and fluffy!  It makes really nice yarn.  Doesn't this make you want to take up spinning?!!!

NOTE:  If you want to watch me actually using this diz, I do a short demo on The Country Wife From Vermont  YouTube channel which will post on Saturday, 26 July.    This link might take you there, or you can just look for it by name.

This is the address for last week's episode:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzy5keNE5_c