January crafting update and February goals

January crafting goals

• finish weaving yarn inventory - spreadsheet already set up and entry started - entry all done except for two cones that I found well after the fact and still need to enter
• get loom into crafting room - done! and started putting a project on it already
• spin! and ply the two things I've got languishing - I have been spinning, but no finishes. I've done three bobbins and almost done with the fourth of the big spin on my CPW. Also been working on spindle projects
• knit the sweater, maybe try and finish it? I've got two crochet projects that I want to make - ugh, I was making progress on this until I hurt my finger
• finish the coat?!?!?! - okay, this was ambitious, but I'm now working on buttonholes, so I'm getting clsoe
• hang some art on the crafting room walls - hung three pieces of art!
• other - wound an 8 yard warp and have been tying it onto the previous warp that I left on there so I can just pull it through the heddles and reed. My tensioning sucks on this warp, so I'll have a lot of adjustments to make. But I'm mostly done tying on and I'm getting very good at the knot.

Weaving yarn inventory! This was really good to do. I found a bunch of things that are very similar and I can use together in projects and a bunch of weird stuff that I might give away. I took each item, weighed it, figured out fiber content, yardage or estimated yardage, yards per pound, and recorded some other useful information (handspun, where I got it, haloing, etc). I had to burn test some cones since there wasn't labels and there's a bunch where I estimated yardage because I couldn't actually tell what weight yarn it was. But I can now sort by color, ypp or anything else and get a bunch of yarns that are very similar. I also tagged them all with numbers and sorted them into two boxes, one of synthetic yarns and one of natural yarns. I also included a bunch of lace weight knitting yarns in here because I'm not going to knit or crochet with lace weight. Probably not. So they would make a great weaving project all together is my guess. Total number of weaving yarns: 73. Technically more since I haven't entered the current projects yarn but shhh

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February goals

• hang up more art
• weave!
• finish coat?
• spin - finish the big project? ply and clear some bobbins, I need to free some up for big spin.
• Knit sweater
• fix blanket that my aunt wants me to fix, big problem is that none of the yarn I can find will color match it and it is 50 years old.