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About Wizzard Yarn Hair Falls
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 Racks I got when a local fabric store closed. This was free, but not the $230 I spent on yarn even at 70 percent off!
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The 'Factory': Receiving, Cutting and Racking
Factory is in quotes above because yarn has slowly taken over my apartment. It roams across 4 of the rooms of my place roughly corresponding to 4 steps in making yarn hair falls. It looks like I should have a half dozens people tucked in corners working away sweat-shop style.
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For the most part, I am making falls in 2 sizes-the sizes of the 2 flat boards that are wrapped here with pink yarn. Cutting with sharp sissors in the open crack gives me 2 bundles of yarn.
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The Living Room in the front of the apartment became the pre-assembly cutting & storage area. My computer/TV room became the factory floor where I blend yarn strands and assemble the falls. The middle bedroom (and occasionally part of the front room) holds final storage space which may sound trivial, but has required a certain amount of creativity as the number of completed hair falls has climbed. Finally, the corner of the kitchen has turned into the seamless backgroud/photo area for shooting the product photos you see elsewhere on the site.
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One of my early hardware cloth drums rotating overhead to store clumps of pre-mixed yarn. |
I initially was taught to make hair falls by picking the various yarn types desired and winding them all-maybe dozens of strands at once-at the same time around a board until enough bulk is achieved. This made sense when I was making one or 2 sets for myself in a limted number of colors and a dozen or so skeins of yarn.
As I started collecting literally hundreds of different varieties of yarn, I found it better to cut yarn to specified lengths and store it in clumps organized according to the spectrum (rainbow colors) and then pick colors as I went along. [see images below]
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 Long Hair clumps-about 19" x 2 (since they are doubled over). |
The cardboard tubes were left-overs from the large format printing paper from my day job. |
Since they come in 2 diameters, I was able to make a rack system that lets me move large collections around easily-draping yarn over the double-length, smaller diameter tubes and cantilevering the end of the tube out of the secured larger tubes. |
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 Short Hair clumps-racks of their own-about 13"x2 long. |
As the obsession grew, so did the overhead unistrut support structure that I started a long time back as a chin-up bar. |
I am using a hanging rack system I designed of individual length small diameter cardboard tubes and welding rod hooks to hold the much shorter 13" clumps of yarn. |
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