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October goals
Weaving! It's a 2.5 yard warp, so not super long and it wove up pretty fast once I got rolling. The neat thing about this pattern was that if I had threaded it in 1-2-3-4, and treadled the pattern, it would have made herringbone. But because of the threading pattern 1-2-3-4-3-2-1-4-3-2-3-4, when I treadled it, it came out as diamonds and I love it so much, easy treadling to remember too. It still needs wet finishing.
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November crafting goals
- Spin alpaca and wash, skein and label yarns - spun another bobbin of alpaca, making progress. didn't do the other stuff. Did spin 10oz of Icelandic fleece (that I sheared!) that was carded to combine the inner and outer coats. Need to decide if plying or leaving as singles.
- knit sweater - worked on it
- crochet mittens - worked on it a little bit
- weave on the big loom! maybe get it all woven? - WOVEN and off the loom! not wet finished though
- process indigo plants - did this, mixed success I think. I might not have fermented enough but I have a lead on a book that should tell me how this works
- finish blog post - lol no
- work on a fleece - I carded the 10oz Icelandic fleece and started combing the Cotswold/Dorset cross fleece that I have a lot of
- warp a tablet woven band to try weaving words (Please Weave a Message is the book title) (the words will be swear words because why not) -started this! I wove to the letter h so far, need to flip cards and finish the alphabet. Figured out how to tell if needing to go forwards or backwards by sight rather than by drafting on the graphing.
- Other things done but not planned for - cut and hand basted jacket muslin, decided to make a button down shirt from the mohair fleece I was given - the goal is to finish it by next Rhinebeck if possible so I could wear it
Weaving! It's a 2.5 yard warp, so not super long and it wove up pretty fast once I got rolling. The neat thing about this pattern was that if I had threaded it in 1-2-3-4, and treadled the pattern, it would have made herringbone. But because of the threading pattern 1-2-3-4-3-2-1-4-3-2-3-4, when I treadled it, it came out as diamonds and I love it so much, easy treadling to remember too. It still needs wet finishing.
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November crafting goals
- spin alpaca, skein, wash and label yarns
- knit on sweater
- crochet mittens
- chart tablet woven bands for gifts, finish current band and start gift bands
- warp new weaving project
- process fleece
- wash one sheep fleece and the mohair fleece
- Work on jacket
