Ch-ch-choices
Should a spinner control the gauge and style of the yarn or should the fibers dictate how the yarn turns out? (Aka: Letting the yarn decide what it wants to be.)
The debate rages on.
I’m all for appropiateness of purpose. I personally cringe at bulky cotton singles, but if that’s appropriate for the final use so be it. I’d rather not deal with yarn that breaks or pills, and for my purposes spinning multiple plies and then plying them together is worth the extra effort when dealing with fine fibers.
Spin and let spin, I say.
There’s of course the school of opinion that claims a proper spinner makes yarn that she wants and doesn’t let the fiber decide what it wants to be.
That’s all fine and dandy, unless you want yarn that is actually suitable for use. I can make underwear from burlap but would anyone want to wear it? For all my love of Lincoln, I’m not in the least disappointed when it doesn’t turn out like Merino.
What’s with all this “proper spinner” stuff anyway? Unless I missed a memo, I thought a proper spinner was one that produced usable yarn in appropriate fibers. I thought proper spinning had something to do with yarn and spinning.
Silly me. I really must try to remember the secret handshake.
I’m so done with snobs that claim their way is the only “right” way. In every pursuit there seems to be a group of people that are determined to put themselves above the rest by some completely irrelevant arbitrary way– be it materials, status, tools or technique.
To those people the words of the immortal Reginald “Red” Forman sums it up best: “I know, it’s difficult to hear with your head up your @ss.”
Repeat that phrase liberally when confronted with yarn snobbery.