April Crafting Update and May Goals

[unicornduke]

April Goals

• finish the mohair, ply and cone up - done! technically I did the cone up today (5/2) but shhh.
• finish the purple spin - done! now I need to ply it. Also spun 4oz of white clun forest and started a new spin
• Skein and wash spins, cone up weaving yarns - nope
• finish the current alpaca fleece processing - yes, done!
• start processing a new fleece? - worked on a fleece that has been set aside for a while
• knit sweater - worked on it
• finish crochet mittens - just the thumb! - done!
• work on tablet weaving project - no clue if I worked on it, I don't think so
• get mohair on the loom? might be a stretch - nope
• Start muslin for vest - ...bought the pattern and printed it

Mohair! Singles on the bobbins.



And two ply yarn. Measured and on the cone today, so it will be heading to the loom soon. This is for my fleece to garment in a year project



Purple singles that took a very long time. Finished these while I had covid and was bored. I need to ply it now that I emptied all the bobbins.



This is the Clun Forest spin that went extremely fast. Long draw, extra squashy. I'm just going to do a 2 ply and set it aside for weaving weft. I'm amassing a collection of 4oz amounts of different breeds of coarse wools that someday I will throw on a sturdy warp and make some rugs or something.



No pictures of gloves, they're the same as the pair in this post with less tension to make them a little larger. And no pictures of the alpaca fleece, it's brown and squishy. That will be blanket warp someday.

May crafting goals

• spin! currently 4oz of Romney on the wheel, maybe I'll do another weaving yarn, high twist for warp? (write about cotton spinning)
• ply, skein and wash yarns sitting around
• knit sweater
• start a crochet project?
• wash a fleece?
• process fleece
• work on tablet weaving project and get it off the warping board
• Get weaving!
• muslin of waistcoat - needs to be done before weaving finishes so uhh

Comments

[reedrover]

Plenty productive! I’m happy to see the mohair looking so nice!

[unicornduke]

It's beautiful! I'm very excited to get it on the loom!

[annofowlshire]

I am impressed by your spinning quantity, and the sheer amount of bobbins you have!

[unicornduke]

To be fair, I've been working on the mohair since January, so it took a while!

Since I spin primarily on antique wheels, I decided to do storage bobbins for my yarn management strategy and get a bobbin winder, instead of getting a ball winder and doing balls to ply from since I don't feel they are very sturdy. So I've got about 12 storage bobbins for singles and the electric wheel I have for plying has six big bobbins. I could purchase more if I wanted to since they're 3D printed, but having a limit on bobbins does make me empty them.

[annofowlshire]

Ahhh. Interesting system. I have 5 bobbins and one wheel (that works). I figure that's the ability to do a 3-ply, and a spare.