It is a mystery

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

July goals

• Spin the CVM - done! Just finished it on the 30th, it took me about a month to spin 3oz. Started another spinning project that is 4oz of combed top to spin on my electric wheel around. Also just started 8oz of Romney roving on the CPW. Did some Tour de Fleece spinning, where my goal was to spin every day, which I did, mostly on my spindle spinning of cotton
• Knit sweater - worked on it a tiny bit
• twist fringe on shawl for guild sale - did the yellow one, working on the pink one, bought a fringe twister because it was getting tedious
• finish weaving on the loom and start warping next project - finished! Got the sample for the next one almost on the loom
• work on tablet weaving - cut the project off the loom, it really wasn't working, don't weave with upholstry thread, wove three other little bands
• Sew the waistcoat - almost done! just buttons to go
• wash a fleece? - nope
• process fleece - worked on it
• engage in shenanigans (already happening >:) I went out and collected some nettles and invasive phragmites from the swamp this morning) - no more shenanigans but I might do this again soon. And I acquired a great wheel :) :) :)

The fluffy clouds of 3oz of CVM that I combed, I bought it from Clemes & Clemes Good Clean Fiber. It's just got a little bit of variation of color, which is neat although it's really only noticable in the yarn. Spun extremely fine which was kinda fun even though it took all month. Don't have yardage yet, I'm going to put it on a cone for weaving to see what kind of fabric a singles finewool will make. 64 wpi.


( so many pictures! )

August goals

• spin things!
• knit sweater
• weave sample and get the main project warped
• twist fringe on pink shawl for sale
• finish the waistcoat
• work on great wheel
• woodwork a few things - pegs for great wheel, tall storage thing for weaving supplies

October 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

Pictures!

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.


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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