After you have carded your wool and it is still on the drum you might like to have it as roving instead of a batt. This will show you how to use a simple diz to do that. You can make a diz out of almost anything. mine is a piece of plastic cut from the side of a plastic sour cream container, it has a hole in the middle for the wool to come through. you pull a small bit of the carded wool through the whole and turning the drum backwards slide the diz around the drum pulling the wool through in a long rope as you go. the diz rest directly on the drum. You control the amount of wool in the rope by how fast you slide it across the drum as you go around. If its too hard, you are trying to pull too much wool through the hole.
Ann
Great idea! So simple, but I never thought of it. Thank you
Howdy! You make this look so easy! I’ve seen this done before on one video, but I like how you keep the diz close to the carder drum and sort of slide it off and through at the same time. Thanks for posting this, can’t wait to try it! BTW- have you seen the “feed the locks in sideways” video?
Thanks Dane. I havn’t seen that one. I will have to look it up.
Never seen such a good demo – thank you for posting
Glad it was helpful Lyn.