At a recent spin-in, I planned to sit next to the spinner we all consider the best and have her show me how she pre-drafts, but she was knitting, not spinning, that day.
The roving I brought to work on is a bit felted and is producing a very dark, unattractive yarn. So the spin-in was not a very satisfactory session for me. I plan to run the rest of the roving through the drum carder with something else, to see if I can lighten (and loosen) it up.
Knitting: Inching along on the socks.
Spinning: See above.
Weaving: See below.
I wanted to warp a set of log cabin towels before the next rigid heddle weaving study group since the topic was to be color weaving. Following the directions in an issue of Little Looms, I worked my way across the loom, but when I reached the end, I realized there was a mistake. The error turned out to be near the beginning - it's hard to see white yarn against a white heddle - and I debated on how to fix it. In the end, I UNwarped the loom and started over.
Now I find that all that abrasion on the yarn has produced a couple of broken warp threads. *sigh*

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