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This weekend I:

• Refined a knotwork design I've been working on for a woodworking project, graphite-transferred it, and completed the first pass of burning the outline.
  
• Wound ~120g of falkland singles into a plying bracelet, plied it (god that took 4 hours), wound it into a skein, soaked it, rinsed it, fulled it slightly, and hung it to dry.
  
• Spun a basket of fiber-tufts each morning on my new-to-me antique (~1900) german spinning wheel (!)
  
• Finished spindle-spinning one of two plies of polworth (~2oz) and wound it into a plying ball, which is a new technique for me. It gave me a hand cramp; I think next time I'm going to use something for the core of the ball.
  
• Split the rest of the polworth three ways, which will be joined end-to-end for the second ply. The idea is that if the color sequence of the whole thing was ABCD, then the first big ply will go AAABBBCCCDDD, and the second ply will go ABCABCABC, so when you ply them together you'll get AA, AB, AC, BA, BB, BC, CA, CB, CC -- so some solid bits and some barber-pole bits that blend nicely together. It's called "fractal ply" since the color sequence is the same at multiple scales.
  
• Made stir-fry (I think endive is a keeper as a cabbage-substitute)
  
• Made polenta, with a mixed-veggies side to go with it of spinach, carrots, parsnips, and chopped walnuts.
  

Imma eat dinner and then add pictures to this.