April Crafting Update and May Crafting Goals

[unicornduke]

April Goals

• weave tablet weaving project - did some weaving!
• spin a third of the purple roving - did this! one third left
• flick the fleece I'm working on - try and finish it? - flicked! And started combing
• get contact info for the people with the alpacas - done! fleeces acquired
• carve down new spindle shaft - not done
• knit something - I frogged the sock I was working on because it's been 8 months and it was wrong so I'm now crocheting a pair instead
• start a new crochet project? - started socks!

Not a lot of pictures to post this time other than the fleece samples. I'll make a bigger post about them soon. I have about 40 pounds of fiber all combined, I weighed and tagged the bags so I can at least know what I've got. I got some produce crates (the farm no longer uses them and they just have a pallet of them sitting behind their barn and they're happy to let us use them) with holes in the bottoms and sides and they fold up. I'm going to get some bins that they can fit in and hopefully be able to wash a fleece at a time with about a pound of fiber in each crate.



May goals

• weave tablet weaving project
• spin final third of purple roving
• comb romney fleece
• wash as many fleeces as possible
• crochet socks

Comments

[graydon]

Not a photography complaint! I can see individual strands just fine, so it really is that bright.

It's just a notably definite contrast/the washing went really well sort of remark.

[unicornduke]

Oh haha, they aren't washed yet! The white I washed over the last few days actually seems to glow but I think this photo was a camera trick.

[graydon]

If that's what it looks like unwashed I now want to know if someone irradiated that sheep!

[unicornduke]

The magic of modern technology haha