April Goals Not a lot of pictures to post this time other than the fleece samples. I’ll make a bigger post about them soon. I have about 40 pounds of fiber all combined, I weighed and tagged the bags so I can at least know what I’ve got. I got some produce crates (the farm no […]
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Fleecy Adventures
On Saturday, I met up with a friend and we went on a grand fleecy adventure. My boss finally put me in contact with a friend of his who had rescue alpacas and we met up. She had 12 or 13 fleeces, none of spectacularly great quality but okay and some bits that weren’t much good for […]
March Crafting Update and April Goals
Goals for March: I made cloth! This was the big project and I’m very pleased with how it turned out. I wouldn’t go wider than that just because of the difficulty managing it, this was about 30 inches wide. All handspun 2 ply yarn, Jacob was the dyed warp and grey Gotland to keep the […]
Monthly Crafting Goals
I saw on a forum that they did monthly goals of their crafting and I like the idea. I may not be consistent but I want to try. Goals for March: Purple roving
Misc
Other than the incredible yardage I’ve been plying for a little bit at a time. That is taking a while. That project is the Lincoln longwool (4oz) and Coopworth (8oz), that I got as washed fleece, combed and spun incredibly fine in matching thickness to be for future tablet weaving projects because the lincoln is […]
Happy Pride!
My fiber arts stuff has slowed way down as work is busy and I’m busy. I think I knitted a hat recently and I’m 2/3 through my current spinning project which I’ve been working on for a while. Oh well. But this! Oh what fun! So this tablet weave is made with Maysville carpetwarp and […]
Fiber Roundup
This is a bunch of stuff I’ve done in the past few months. This is a project that was mostly practicing different techniques, I warped up two warps per heddle loop so I could do a 2 by 2 pattern. I also did pickup techniques which is what the V pattern is at the top. […]
Tablet Weaving!
I like it! I used mercerized cotton that I had in my stash from ages ago. I had only bought two colors since it was for baby yoda but I ended up using a different yarn. All the guides recommend mercerized cotton to start so that’s what I did. I watched many many videos of […]
Electric Wheel!
It arrived!!! I’m making this post two weeks after it arrived but hey, whatever. I backed the Electric Eel Wheel 6.0 Kickstarter back in June 2020. From what I can tell from the updates, for the most part everything went smoothly with production and there was only a month delay from the estimated delivery due […]
Minor Revelations
If using wool and you spin it with twist, you need a ply to even the twists out and not get something that crinkles in knitting or weaving. If you do a low twist single, you won’t need the ply but it is generally a thicker yarn that is used for soft garments and won’t […]