Okay, so my new favorite way to use up little scraps of wool, which I save in gallon-sized plastic bags and then obsessively sort by color, is to draft them out a bit and then roll them into little balls. I pop them in a zippered pillowcase, toss 'em in a hot-water load of towels for some agitation, and *poof*!! I have myself a bunch of cute little felted bauble babies! Some of them get a little deformed in the process and look like wee lil' snowmen, which makes me laugh. They're each unique and fun to spin onto yarn. One of my favorite spinner friends, Abby from Folktale (http://folktale.etsy.com/), showed me how to thread them onto a slice of roving with a tapestry needle, and then spin them onto the roving you're working with. Of course, you have to have a bulky flyer for this to work. They spice up any handspun yarn!
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