Yesterday I had a House of Cards marathon while I worked on the blue polwarth, and now I'm very close to being done spinning it. I'm still refining my technique, this time trying something new after having watched one of the ladies in the local knit group using a drop spindle. The polwarth drafts better if I break it down into even thinner sections than I was doing before, if I pre-draft it a bit. I'm really looking forward to going to the Makerspace group soon, hopefully someone there will be able to tell me what I can still do better.
I pulled the dark blue corriedale off the niddy noddy to wet-finish just now. I'm not sure what I'm going to knit with it yet. Maybe socks? I know you're supposed to let it dry under its own weight to retain the elasticity, but it's a bit overspun so I'm letting it dry stretched horizontally over the baby gate we use to separate the dogs. There's nothing I can do about it being overspun now anyway, and I'm the only one who cares since I'm using it for my own project.
One thing on my to-do list today is watching some videos about throwing pottery. There are a few wheels at Makerspace, but there's no class for using them and I haven't done it in more than ten years probably, so I need to do a crash course online before I try anything. One guy was able to recommend a local ceramic supply that sells clay, and boyfriend used to work at a craft store that sells it as well, so I should be able to get started pretty soon.
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