Acquisitions/Stash Management

I felt a bit blurgh this week, so I couldn’t resist a little retail therapy and ordered 200g of BFL (70%)/Alpaca (15%)/Seacell (15%) from Hilltop Cloud. I have wanted to try her dyed fibres for a looooong time and have some Christmas money left.

The alpaca should give nice drape and the Seacell (a cellulose fibre made from seaweed) will give it some shine and who doesn’t love spinning Bluefaced Leicester?! Sounds perfect to me for spinning and a nice change from all these natural coloured wools I’ve been spinning this year.

Felting

I made a start on some baubles during a committee meeting on zoom, but they need more work before being ready for the shop.

Knitting

Shawls

I have made a tiny bit more progress on my Easy Goes It DK shawl.

Spinning

I finished spinning the yucky Gotland sample and plied it and the disappointment continues. It doesn’t hold the twist well, it plied very awkwardly and seemed to not have any energy to twist itself. When I spin the other sample of this I’ll do it on one of my Ashford manual wheels and see if that makes any difference.

To get my spinning enthusiasm back up I thought I’d spin something dyed and a breed I know I enjoy. So I started spinning some Shetland I dyed a year ago. It’s deep green but not solid. Again I’m using my EEW Nano 2 to spin it on and Traditional to ply.

Part way through spinning it I remembered that I’d dyed it this deep green for my lampshades as it’s pine forest-ish. Ah well, it’s being spun up now and I have some fibre on order to dye and have some fleece to wash and dye too. I see lots of colour ahead.

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Other News

I’ve had no energy this week, perhaps I just over did it last week or I’ve had a bug. We have had very high air pressure here too and I do wonder if that affects me, it certainly coincided with the return of my right ear humming a deep tone. I’m not sure I’ve seen our barometer go as high before.

So not much crafting done but a few more things picked out to donate and some organising of the shelves and drawers in the craft room wardrobes.

My plan this week is to do some more Shetland spinning, work on my shawl and perhaps cast on a pair of socks. I shall be taking a break from decluttering for the next 7 days.

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This is a Year of Projects post.  Officially the Group is in its 12th year, but this is my 5th year participating.  If you would like to find more about the Year of Projects Group on Ravelry. 

Year 12 list.