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I’ve spent several days updating and adding various COE topics. I still have a good bit of writing to complete so it’s best I get on with it. I spent all afternoon today researching the properties of protein fibers. This is pretty dull stuff; I will assume that if you care to know, you can find the COE index page on your own. I’ve got another misfit yarn but I don’t have it written up yet.

After many false starts, I’ve found something I like with the new cotton/silk blend. I’m still not thrilled with it but it’s working, I like it best as a fine slubby two-ply. It’s a little tedious to spin but nothing like the previous attempt with the noil. This is something I might actually be enticed to use, although I’m not likely to want to spin any meaningful amount of it. A castle wheel is just lousy for long draw and I’m doing my best to get it over with.

Some people might say that spinning tiny yarn is hardly getting it over with, but that’s me. I just don’t like big yarns. And a big cotton yarn is hardly practical. I would get this COE spinning done a lot faster if I made all the “at the discretion of the spinner” yarns big honkin’ things, but then I’d be embarrassed to admit that I made some of them. I can’t do everything in Corriedale and make it all look like lopi. Or Colinette Point 5. I’m already doing more textured yarns than I personally like because I don’t have a drum carder to do all this blending.