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Ow. I spent the day spinning cotton. Long draw is bad enough, with the castle wheel I tend to do some nasty things to my hands. I had to pull out both wrist supports and they aren’t perfect. But now my knees hurt. The Insanely Fast Flyer is really nice, but it’s hard to treadle at the highest ratios so I tend to use one of the lower ones and treadle more. All day long: treadle, treadle, treadle. I spun about 30g of fine cotton. It goes fast if I don’t care how even it is. This is for a 3-ply with eyelash sort of thing.

I also did some samples and carded fiber for another one of the blends. I started this thing with cotton and silk noil and I’ve finally given up and declared it dead. I hate spinning it and I don’t even like the yarn all that much. Technically, it’s fine, but it looks like forty year old drapes. I skeined off what I had because I needed the bobbin. The replacement is also cotton and silk but this time I made punis. Huge punis from putting far, far too much fiber on the cotton cards. But it works, both the fibers are already combed so I just need to mush them up together a bit and make the batts. White silk and brown cotton. I get to use up some of that nasty brick with the short staple length. One thing this project is good for is using up stuff I don’t like.

Now off to bed. I’m not even going to update the changes so it will be tomorrow sometime before you get to read this. I have a really early meeting in the morning and then I will be able to get back to fiber stuff.