December Reading List

Not a ton of reading in December but I was very focused on sewing and fiber projects, that post coming soon

Read in December

• The Red Stained Wings by Elizabeth Bear - second in the series, I love this world so much, it's so cool
• Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse - the final book of the trilogy. it has been so long since I read the first two that I couldn't remember who anyone was or what the writing style was, so the first half was a slog. there was so many people talking bleh
• The Origin of Storms by Elizabeth Bear - final in the Lotus Kingdoms series, so good!!! There was intrigue and stuff but it was in between all the action and it was relatively quick
• The Shoestring Theory by Mariana Costa - this book is a wacky one, but kinda wild. people do lots of shenanigans with magic

Reread

• The Goblin Emperor by Katherine Addison - it's so good
• The Scholomance series by Naomi Novik - this is a once a year re-read because I like it so much

December Crafting Update and January Goals

December crafting goals

• finish the color spin I've got and get back to working on the alpaca. spin some other stuff - finished the color spin, spun another 14 oz of yarn and finished a bobbin of the alpaca, plyed some things too
• finish knitting the hat - finished!
• crochet a dice bag for my sister - crocheted two!
• sew the purse for my mom - did it! she loves it!
• work on coat mockup - got it all cut out, interfacing attached, just about started piecing it
• weave rug - worked on it!
• process fleece - worked on it!
• Other - sewed a bag for my SIL, mostly wrote the waistcoat post, wove three tablet woven bands, two for the bags. Prototyped my Dad's gift of ratchet strap bags and made gift bags out of fabric for all the gifts

Color spin! It was 2 ounces each of six color of roving from Green Goat Ranch in their A Midwinter's Nights Dream colorways, which are grey overdyed to make the colors a bit muted which I loved. I don't know what I'm doing with it yet, I think some kind of weaving project, but I didn't spin it for weaving as a single, so I'd need to ply it if it was to be used as warp and I don't really have a ton of it, so I'd need to add some other yarn which I don't have. So it's taking up bobbin space right now and I need to figure something out.


( this is a ton of stuff and pictures )

Whew, that was a lot.

January Crafting Goals

• spin alpaca and finish plying the stuff sitting around
• Figure out what to do with all the samples I've had sitting around forever that I'm not looking at
• Knit sweater
• Finish woven rug and warp new project
• process fleece
• work on coat mockup
• sew other projects