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December Crafting Update and January Goals

Wed, 01 Jan 2025 14:09:05 GMT

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

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April Crafting Update and May Goals

Thu, 02 May 2024 21:55:41 GMT

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.

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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

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Well. April, etc Crafting Update and July Goals

Sat, 01 Jul 2023 13:06:53 GMT

April Goals (and May, and June)

Spin something and ply the Montadale - I spun 8 oz of purple mystery wool and plyed 4 oz of purple with the montadale and then plyed the other 4 oz together. I also spun 4 oz North Ronaldsey roving which is going to be some sort of weaving thing combined with a fleece I have for rugs, just trying to decide if it should be 2 ply as warp or singles as weft. Also starting spinning through a bunch of samplers of cellulose fiber 25g each and writing some notes about them. I spun mint, ingeo corn, banana and soybean top so far. They're similar but not all the same. Also spinning a pound of roving on my CPW, which I'm done with 8oz and onto the next braid.
Work on tablet weaving - worked on it! almost done
Get Romney on the loom - got it on! need to make a whole post about it, but also got it mostly woven and off
Knit sweater - almost done! I have a sleeve cuff left to knit. It's now a 3/4 sleeve very light sweater
Process alpaca fleece (I want to try and get this done quickly to start another fleece for an event but we'll see) - I ended up pulling the other fleece out just for the event, prepping and spinning about 4oz on my CPW at the event which was very fun. I'm debating whether to switch to carding the alpaca fleece instead since I'm not enjoying combing it. I want it to be 2 ply warp for a blanket so combing would be better. Maybe I can card it into sheets and spin from those
Crochet mittens - done!
Other (not specified at the time) - mended a pair of pants with dragonlady7 's guidance, wound new warp to go on the loom, garden got in the ground and I have a lot of happy dye plants

Life sure happened and I didn't write these posts. I was busy.

Spinning!

This is the Montadale (white) and mystery wool (purple) plyed up. I'll need to skein and wash. No plans for these but it's more rustic, so good for mittens and things.

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July Goals (I wish I had time/energy for Tour de Fleece but I don't usually so I'm not going to push it)

spinning - work on Pansy Pandemonium. I doubt I'll finish the 10oz in July but that's okay. maybe spin some more samplers on the eel wheel
knitting - finish the sweater and get B to take actual nice photos of me wearing it
finish the tablet weaving
warp and weave the wool singles cloth
process fleece - now that I typed that all up above, I think I'm going to switch to carding the alpaca and comb a sheep fleece
dye something????
wash a fleece

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November Crafting Update and December Goals

Thu, 01 Dec 2022 21:02:19 GMT

I did so much??? For some reason, November felt wildly busy.

November Goals

Spin grey Romney fleece - 4 out of 6 bobbins done and the blobs in the box are getting quite low
Finish tablet weaving project? - DONE WOW. turns out when you work on something, it is easier to get it done
knit sweater - still working on it, I have a crop top sweater now
process fleece - I think I worked on this once
finish 4oz test comb for timing - done and did a second one of Teeswater
start a crochet project - hat and scarf for gifts? - did a crochet hat and a knit hat, no pictures because they aren't 100% done. I need to put a lining in the crochet hat

Other things: big loom weaving!
Pictures!

Grey Romney! I think I've finally earmarked this fleece for a big snuggly cardigan that I can wear over other layers. I will either do a 3 ply or 4 ply depending on what weight I want. Two more bobbins to go since this is a little over 20 oz, with another 10oz to spin. I shouldn't need extra yarn but if I do, I have 10 oz of carded combing waste from the same fleece.

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December goals

Finish Romney fleece???? - I would need to wait to ply since a friend is borrowing my electric wheel for a while. That's okay, I can at least finish the singles.
Start tablet woven band
fix and finish weaving on big loom
Process alpaca fleece
Ball navajo churro yarn for weaving next - to do over holiday break at my parents
Crochet something - start building my crochet tolerance back up now that my wrist feels better
Knit sweater

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Quarantine Sweater

Wed, 14 Oct 2020 01:12:00 GMT

I started with two braids (8oz total) from Llady Llama Fiber Co, colorway was Clockwork on their Targhee base. I went looking for the pictures of the braids and I took those March 22nd. I pulled apart the braids, spun them as a gradient and made a 2 ply fingering weight yarn. I crocheted it using the pattern of Blurred Lines by Deanne Ramsey, completely ignoring the colorwork and some of the minor details. I liked the shaping and neckline (why so many wide neck sweaters pattern writers?).

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I made a sweater!

Sun, 08 Mar 2020 13:32:53 GMT

It was fun!

I took Llady Llama's Targhee base dyed in Manta (white to dark blue), 8 ounces of it in two braids.

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Fiber fiber fiber stuffs

Sat, 28 Dec 2019 19:13:22 GMT

This is from the past month or so, I haven't been posting about projects because I've been busy busy.

So this scarf was the first major project I started on, technically back in September. I bought the roving at the sheep and wool festival because it reminded me of persona 5, which is one of Jade's favorite video games. I bought it, spun it on drop spindle and then crocheted a scarf for her.

At one point, I restarted making the whole scarf because I originally started with a single crochet but it made it very stuff so a third of the way through, I pulled it all out and did it with a half double crochet and it turned out very well.

( this is a lot of photos )

All in all, a lot of fiber stuffs!

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Current works

Thu, 07 Nov 2019 00:29:08 GMT

I made a whole bobbin of yarn on my spinning wheel. I finally got it off and here's a picture. There's some definite variation but that roving is actually kinda hard to work with for some reason. I can't figure it out but it's my test roving for everything. If I learn to spin on it, then moving to other types is easier. I have no idea what it is, I constantly lose what things are. I counted out the turns on the niddy noddy and then calculated it out, and it may or may not be about 270 yards, which is a good amount. I'm not plying anything because that's a pain in the butt and I don't want to.

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Wed, 06 Mar 2019 01:32:21 GMT

finally finished another blanket

it had been living in my bed because I'd been working on it last evenings when I would go to bed early but not sleep. I made it specifically to use up all the super bulky yarn I had, which I did use them all up. Now I just need to keep working on all the other yarn lol

but it's super heavy and soft and it's larger than the original plan, which was another lap blanket. It's so heavy that it isn't very useful as a lap blanket so I'm just going to enjoy using it more like a weighted blanket.

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