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I inherited an old spinning wheel from my husband's Grandma and it's been an ambition of mine to be able to spin on it. I can master the basics but I am trying to gradually improve my consistency

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Keep at it! Consistency comes with practice. But don't obsess over it. You're not trying to reproduce a commercially spun yarn. Inconsistency is part of the charm of handspun.

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Thanks for the review of Chain Gang All Stars; I’m going to want to pick this up. Actually a number of prison systems in the US are already run by for-profit companies, which really seems to me to be a bad, bad idea. 😞

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Once upon a time, I worked a few Saturdays at “The House”, right outside San Quentin prison. The women who dropped off their children, or stopped in to change from their wired bra to a clean, wireless loaner so they could visit their loved ones, gave a whole different perspective on our prison system. As much as I’m not usually a fan of children, my heart broke when listening to the ones with fathers on death row. There are so many people outside the system who are affected, sometimes even more than those on the inside.

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Provocative about the prison system in this country; a topic worth consideration at a time when the justice system seems to divert from the principle of "equal justice for all" to become a political tool for the corrupted.

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