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Prepping the next 50g of Apollo and thinking about The Process

What do you like to do that improves your spinning from the fold?

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No spin, pay attention to Cranberry

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Making headway on braid 2/5 of the Apollo fibre and spinning from the fold is for sure the way to go with this blend.

It risks muddying otherwise

@quoteyou-onthat I think I avoided the worst of the muddying and the pops of silk from spininng from the fold are luxurious to handle

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I got a book charkha yesterday. It fits in my bag and is also small enough to use on an airplane.

This is the 2 ply and 3 ply thread that I made during my flight.

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Poll is almost closed, I appreciate everyone's input

I've been thinking through my pricing strategy for when I go to hawk my wares to local shops and so far, this is what my formula looks like for those curious about the pricing process:

I settled on $.03/m after trying out a few other options based off of things and stuff idk I'm not a mathemdoctor or w.e

So I assume those looking at this post will have an opinion on the cost and I would love to hear it.

By my calculations, I can spin approximately 755m/150g of 75%merino/25% silk blend 2ply

If I charge $.03CAD/m then my labour cost for 755m = $22.65CAD

I pay $28.00 for 150g so my mat cost is $28CAD + $22.65CAD

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I've been thinking through my pricing strategy for when I go to hawk my wares to local shops and so far, this is what my formula looks like for those curious about the pricing process:

I settled on $.03/m after trying out a few other options based off of things and stuff idk I'm not a mathemdoctor or w.e

So I assume those looking at this post will have an opinion on the cost and I would love to hear it.

By my calculations, I can spin approximately 755m/150g of 75%merino/25% silk blend 2ply

If I charge $.03CAD/m then my labour cost for 755m = $22.65CAD

I pay $28.00 for 150g so my mat cost is $28CAD + $22.65CAD

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Hey, my friends and I are considering Vintage Story as a game for the regular gamenights. What's your take on a party of 4? I see there's no "streamlined" hosting, and I dunno how those numbers work out for the kind of game it is. Thanks for your time!

4 people is a great party size imo and as for how streamlined the hosting is, I'm not exactly sire what you mean by that but it is very simple to set up.

The subreddit and discord as well as the #vintage story tag are full of very excited people eager to info dump who will know better than I >.<

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Brain gremlins got me down bad today and my body needs a rest so instead of spinning progress you get to see Poe

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the tables have turned: my cat is ill and he's not a very good patient

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Have faith in your fingies!

It took some focus but I fully believe you can spin thick or thin with enough slowing down and observation of your drafting

Trying for consistency on the drop spindle and every picture I see online shows much thinner singles than what I'm achieving.

Is it user error and I just need to draft thinner, or is it a lack of twist?

Maybe Tumblr just has a penchant for only sharing skinny singles and my plump little threads are just fine as they are?

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Yeah, life is good

Spinning by candlelight

@quoteyou-onthat I'm almost finished filling 1 bobbin ^_^

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I've been thinking through my pricing strategy for when I go to hawk my wares to local shops and so far, this is what my formula looks like for those curious about the pricing process:

I settled on $.03/m after trying out a few other options based off of things and stuff idk I'm not a mathemdoctor or w.e

So I assume those looking at this post will have an opinion on the cost and I would love to hear it.

By my calculations, I can spin approximately 755m/150g of 75%merino/25% silk blend 2ply

If I charge $.03CAD/m then my labour cost for 755m = $22.65CAD

I pay $28.00 for 150g so my mat cost is $28CAD + $22.65CAD

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Spinning by candlelight

@quoteyou-onthat I'm almost finished filling 1 bobbin ^_^

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Some Pokesona sketches!

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Oh no I'll have to figure this out for when I mail those commissions.

Any info regarding how to handle this would be appreciated

Quick update, though I’m sure you’ve been hearing this from many small businesses. I am temporarily removing the US from the places I ship to because of all the shit that I’m sure you’re all aware of.

Basically, instead of the customer paying custom fees when receiving a package (the way every other country handles imports) the US has decided that their new tariffs are everyone else’s problem and custom fees have to be pre paid before shipping (meaning it’s on the small business to sort it out). And most shipping companies do not have pre-paying custom fees as an option (because it’s fucking stupid) so none of us can actually do anything until they figure it out.

Royal Mail is working on it, and have said they should have something in a few weeks. So hopefully this is only temporary and I can resume shipping to the US in a few weeks (in time for the next biome box fingers crossed!)

It will mean I have to increase shipping prices to account for the fact that I have to pay the tariffs.

So anyway. That’s the shitstorm that’s happening to non-US small businesses this week