Soft and Hard

 I had the idea of using up the remaining blue and beige strips from the log cabin triangles 

so I made some rail fence and log cabin squares.

  I will combine these and see how many I can get from this little pile for a lap quilt.

I have been spinning up the batts of Southdown I carded last week

 and it has bugged me that there are so many nepps in the wool

 so I dug out the combs (lethal weapons!) and combed strips off the batts to make some lovely top.

There was a Lot of waste-the short miserable bits that I didn't like spinning-

so I carded them up again to finish the bobbin I started. 

 And this will be spun on a new bobbin to compare how this will spin. 

It was a good lesson in combing!  

I enjoyed pulling the fiber off the combs into roving-very relaxing!

 Then after lunch I headed out to take the grout residue off the tiles. 

 Not an easy job of it.  

After two hours, I only had half of the job done. 

 The new grout has plastic in it because it just doesn't rub off like the old stuff.  

What a work out! 

 I will definitely try a new technique on the other sides-

so much for following directions on the grout bucket!