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Yesterday I had the pleasure of a visitor who spins and we spend many hours chatting and spinning. I managed to finish a skein of cormo/romney laceweight, 650 yards.

I have finished spinning singles from the rainbow batt but I’m planning to fill up three bobbins worth of BFL/alpaca before I ply so I can make the most of the switch to the plying head and be a little more efficient. I still have the green merino/angora waiting to be plied as well.

Once the Rossling socks were done I was ready to get back to some spinning. The merino/angora roving in green is all spun up and waiting on bobbins to be plied. I thought I’d spin up the rainbow batt as well before I get out the plying head for the wheel. I stripped the batt into colors and made little balls of strips in order to try and preserve the color progression. I’ll Navajo-ply the singles when they are done.

My pictures are a little sketchy of the festival this year. I was able to go with Mom and I was more engaged with showing her around and learning my way around the new location than taking pictures. I was sad to miss out on Miss Tarragon’s fleece this year. She had weak spots and was too full of VM to be useful to a handspinner. I did pick up Pumpkin’s twin, Plum (well the fleeces thereof) which are both lovely cormo fleeces. Shale, a BFL, was only a pound this year so I grabbed Dora’s BFL fleece to go along with. I’ll be boxing those up and mailing them off to Spinderella’s Creations very soon.