It's almost time for the 1st Sunday spin-in! It's this Sunday at 5pm pacific.

Since we just dropped the 5th episode of the 1st season and it's all about drafting, let's talk about drafting! Feel free to post any questions you have about the episode, drafting, or the guild in general and we'll do our best to answer!

Can't wait to see y'all!

Topic: PLY Spinners Guild Spin in - first Sunday of the month 5pm pacific

Time: Jan 7, 2024 05:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
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I'm not sure what to call my drafting style: semi-woolen? with a side order of double drafting out the fat bits. I also pull it sideway instead of straight out in front of me. Don't know what to call that. Then I loves me a good chain ply. This is my go to draft if I have nothing special in mind. Right now I'm doing a solid short forward smoothing down high twist deal (and high twist ply) for spinning socks. Can't wait to get back to my draft mojo

@mamaknitty, now I wanna know exactly how you're drafting, lol. and yes, sounds like you're spinning perfect for socks!

I’m loving the new sessions so far (I’m only through the second video). I can’t wait to hear all the questions about drafts on the zoom. If you are in Jillian’s patreon, one of the bingo squares this month is about exploring your least favorite draft, so I’m going to be exploring more into the different ways to spin from the fold.

@mamaknitty yay spinning for socks! I can’t wait to hear all about it!

any chance of having the meetings at an earlier time, so that we folks in Europe can attend? I love spinning but not enough to stay up till 1 am :)

The next one (January 21st) will be at 10 am pacific and hopefully that will fit your schedule a bit better. We do record the zooms and you can find them with the other videos.

I got an error that the zoom had reached a max of 100 participants and no additional participants can join. Anyone else having that issue?

Try now Karrie, we just had some people leave

Thanks Laura & Jacey for hosting tonight’s spin-in. It’s especially nice to connect with other spinners during these dark, drab Winter months when I’m starting to feel even more like a shut-in than usual. 🤣So enjoyable to set aside some uninterrupted spinning time and see what everyone else is working on.

In the beginning of the zoom there was a discussion about how when yer at a festival and people are all wearing the same sweater and it sometimes feels like a cult. We knit the same sweater from the same designers using the same yarn. I think it was Laura who talked about the similarities to the Cup fetish happening right now. and I saw this article I thought might add to that discussion:

https://frederickjoseph.substack.com/p/are-we-this-far-gone

So let's try making things from newbie/POC/different designers/indie-dyers/etc and break out of the cult

mamaknitty: I'm totally with ya!!!

So glad to be here! My first day. We used to have a spinners' guild in my remote rural village but everyone from that group is now gone. Perhaps this guild will lead to rejuvenation of a local guild as well as fellowship in a much larger community.

Thank you for making this guild happen!

I just joined Guild. Please let me know where to find info and who/where I could go for help.

The into film says two Sunday spin-ins a month at different times to accommodate different audiences.

I wrote for help and got an answer from Google that said my 2 day old membership had expired. No answer from Ply.

Please help. I want to spin, not fight computers.

Thank you for any possible assistance,

Sincerely,
Eve Trook