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July Crafting Update and August Goals

- August 3, 2022 | January 1, 2023 - admin

I got a lot done in July surprisingly with everything going on. Maybe I’ll make a post about it all but it is going so fast and I am so busy.

July goals

  • Spin something – I have exchanged spinning wheels with dragonlady7 and I want to fiddle with her wheel since it seems to be cranky and not spinning correctly. maybe go wild and spin something on my electrical wheel that is thicker – wheel fiddled with and the conclusion is that we probably don’t have the time to fix it on our own and I will take it to the wheel fixer at some point soon. I started spinning Navajo Churro roving on my electric wheel that I bought a couple weeks ago and immediately have a plan to spin half for weft, half for warp and weave a plaid idek wall hanging or something. Just plaid. It will be cool.
  • Skein purple yarn – it’s a pound of yarn and it took me so long to ply and now I need to skein it. ugh. someday I will own a skein winder. – Skeined this yarn, skeined other yarn, labeled and washed and just organized things a bit that had been sitting around.
  • build fleece drying rack – I need to buy lumber but should be a fast build and then I can get back to washing the alpaca fleeces – built! it has removable legs so it can be stored easier and I washed one fleece and have another drying right now
  • comb romney fleece – I really want to finish this! – done and the combing waste is carded! 3.7 lb fleece after washing and locks flicked produced 30 oz of combed fiber and 10 oz of carded rolags. Not sure what the plan is yet, but possibly some 3 ply yarn.
  • crochet – keep working on the handspun shawl I started,  it’s very pretty – completed! See photo below
  • knitting – sweater? socks again? I doubt it but lets see – started a sock again for some reason but also ordered the smaller needles I need for a sweater.

Romney fleece

A cardboard box with the sides taped up is at the top of the photo and it is filled with round blobs of combed fiber that has been rolled around itself. Below it is a brown rectangle basket filled with rolags of carded fiber. All the fiber is a shiny grey color.

And a terrible photo of the shawl

A teal auqamarine color shawl with ridges of stiches radiating outward is flopped over a porch chair and only half of it is visible.

August goals

  • Start knitted sweater – I have 2/3 skeins of yarn balled for this and just waiting on the needles to come
  • Spin half of Navajo Churro roving
  • Wash 4 fleeces
  • Start processing some fiber
  • Work on tablet weaving project