Well. April, etc Crafting Update and July Goals

April Goals (and May, and June)

• Spin something and ply the Montadale - I spun 8 oz of purple mystery wool and plyed 4 oz of purple with the montadale and then plyed the other 4 oz together. I also spun 4 oz North Ronaldsey roving which is going to be some sort of weaving thing combined with a fleece I have for rugs, just trying to decide if it should be 2 ply as warp or singles as weft. Also starting spinning through a bunch of samplers of cellulose fiber 25g each and writing some notes about them. I spun mint, ingeo corn, banana and soybean top so far. They're similar but not all the same. Also spinning a pound of roving on my CPW, which I'm done with 8oz and onto the next braid.
• Work on tablet weaving - worked on it! almost done
• Get Romney on the loom - got it on! need to make a whole post about it, but also got it mostly woven and off
• Knit sweater - almost done! I have a sleeve cuff left to knit. It's now a 3/4 sleeve very light sweater
• Process alpaca fleece (I want to try and get this done quickly to start another fleece for an event but we'll see) - I ended up pulling the other fleece out just for the event, prepping and spinning about 4oz on my CPW at the event which was very fun. I'm debating whether to switch to carding the alpaca fleece instead since I'm not enjoying combing it. I want it to be 2 ply warp for a blanket so combing would be better. Maybe I can card it into sheets and spin from those
• Crochet mittens - done!
• Other (not specified at the time) - mended a pair of pants with dragonlady7 's guidance, wound new warp to go on the loom, garden got in the ground and I have a lot of happy dye plants

Life sure happened and I didn't write these posts. I was busy.

Spinning!

This is the Montadale (white) and mystery wool (purple) plyed up. I'll need to skein and wash. No plans for these but it's more rustic, so good for mittens and things.



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July Goals (I wish I had time/energy for Tour de Fleece but I don't usually so I'm not going to push it)

• spinning - work on Pansy Pandemonium. I doubt I'll finish the 10oz in July but that's okay. maybe spin some more samplers on the eel wheel
• knitting - finish the sweater and get B to take actual nice photos of me wearing it
• finish the tablet weaving
• warp and weave the wool singles cloth
• process fleece - now that I typed that all up above, I think I'm going to switch to carding the alpaca and comb a sheep fleece
• dye something????
• wash a fleece