Down at the tiny (tweed) house, I have been dyeing, carding, spinning, writing tweed recipes, and figuring amounts in micrograms for small tests. These micro batch tests are a perfect job for the hand carders, drop spindle, and mini niddy noddy, which photographs the test batches of handspun so well! I had some left over bits of carded fluff from several tests and decided to blend them all together for this small 10 yard mini skein. The great thing I’m finding, and now getting pretty good at it, is using the Turkish spindle, and once the spindle and cross pieces of the whorl are taken out, the ball is left as a perfect little center-pull package to bring each end together to ply back on to the spindle … I just love that about this spindle. I just love everything about the small tools, really, which seem to insist that I focus with diligence.