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unicorndukeOctober 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.
Pile of Icelandic fleece, carded into rolags. This fleece was interesting to work with because the undercoat was so short that it wasn't really possible to separate the coats. The sheep was having a struggle that year but the fleece was still nice. It turned out a little thick and thin but it was fun to spin. I need to decide if I'm plying it or leaving it as singles, I don't have a plan for it.
Tablet woven writing!
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.
Pile of Icelandic fleece, carded into rolags. This fleece was interesting to work with because the undercoat was so short that it wasn't really possible to separate the coats. The sheep was having a struggle that year but the fleece was still nice. It turned out a little thick and thin but it was fun to spin. I need to decide if I'm plying it or leaving it as singles, I don't have a plan for it.
Tablet woven writing!
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
