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I set aside the cotton spinning for a while and returned to the forlorn looking spindle of lace weight alpaca. Ah, spindling where have you been? This is the same red/brown baby alpaca that I was spinning. It so lovely and soft. It’s weird how wire hard singles can turn into the loftiest softest yarn [...]

I was trying to change some things and I ended up deleting my last couple of posts and the comments that went with them along with the rest of my blog. It’s okay because I’ve been fairly faithful in making backups so I was able to restore most of it. There are days when I’m [...]

I decided to go easy on myself with this next bobbin of cotton yarn. I’m using the unsupported long draw method so the single is about 3 times the diameter of my first cotton yarn with roughly half less twist. The spinning is still slow, a little faster due to the bulk of the yarn. [...]

I put a vegetable steamer in the bottom of the pan and then filled the pan with water, so yarn wouldn’t rest directly over the heat. I’d read that green cotton needs some alkaline action in order for the color to develop fully so first I tried using a little homemade soap. It darkened just [...]

Before you judge me by my ugly tablecloth, you should know something. That’s my skirt. I love it when I ply yarn from two independent balls of single ply and come this close to equality. One end is just three inches longer than the other. There’s just something so satisfying about it. Want to see [...]