#also unrolling the ball works much better than doing what one livejournal told me which is unrolling layering two together stretching

[david-box]

I'm figuring out cotton spinning on an in-hand/supported spindle and I ***thiiink*** I've figured this out. Normal techniques for in-hand/grasped style don't work like you see online because this fiber (.... Or at least the cotton balls I have....) Does Not Glide Over Itself without force, but you can either spin and draft with two hands with force (which would work better with drop spinning and also not what i want to do) or basically add twist with one hand and *untwist* it with the other while pulling, which is kind of cool!

Problem is is that I don't know if that's actually right. But anyhow, iirc the people who spin this on a wheel pull the fiber out fairly fast which functionally is the same as untwisting it (of rather, distributing the twist down) but I would need to hold the fiber very lightly before I do that and I don't know how yet, so we'll see!