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I'm finally spinning the rest of the fiber that became a felted dog toy. It's...challenging. I couldn't find the right settings for my wheel, so I pulled out a drop spindle for the first time in months.

Now when the fiber is clumpy or suddenly breaks it's no big deal. (Although I hate having this not-cheap spindle hit the floor.)

This stuff has little blobs of short fiber in it (neps). You can either obsessively pick them out, or make lumpy yarn.

It's neps all the way down. Let's just call it rustic texture and admire the colors. something i saw

spinning, dammit. i have some other things i'm itching to make, i'm just trying to be a grownup and finish out this bobbin before i pull out some more exciting fiber.

there's nothing wrong with this stuff, it's a nice merino dyed by Socks That Rock, there's just 8oz of it and i'm trying to make fingering and it goes on forever and ever. one ply down, second ply done sometime soon if i can choke it out, and then the third ply can wait - the inlaws got me another Akerworks bobbin for Christmas.

it's fractal spin, which was interesting to set up and will be interesting to ply. but at the single stage, boooooring.