Felting
Well it has been about 7 months since I have done any wet felting, but a customer who has previously bought one of my lampshades has requested two more in the same style…so I have finally got back on the felting horse!
They wanted seascapes like the shade they already have, one with sparkles and the other without. I am still to construct them but hopefully I can get them dropped off at the gallery on Tuesday for them to post out to the customer.
I have 5 other 20cm lampshade fibres all laid out so maybe I’ll do some more this week!?
Knitting
Accessories
I have a plan to make some leg warmers, my thermal long johns have shrunk a bit and I like shorter sock so that leaves a gap that gets cold under my trousers…so I thought leg warmers. I may get these started and then save them for the long train journeys I have at the end of the month.
Jumpers/cardigans
I haven’t added anything to my jumper since last Sunday evening, but I will add some more rows tonight.
Other/household
I’ve added 18 rows to my Gansey Afghan.
Spinning
I plied 2 of my advent baby camel and silk colours. I have another colour spun on 2 bobbins ready to be plied and have 1 bobbin of another colour that needs its buddy to be spun and then plied. I think during January I may actually finish spinning all these advent colours!
Other News
I have got back to doing some decluttering and moving around of furniture pieces, basically to try to make room in the guest room for my Scalextric track.
Slowly I am creating a pile for donation. I also managed to declutter some things from the kitchen corner cupboard and a drawer. “Diane in Denmark” on YouTube keeps me motivated with her weekly declutter along and fly lady cleaning videos.
.I did manage to walk to work a few times as the weather hasn’t been too bad. One morning it was very frosty black ice so I was a bit Bambi on ice going around one of the corners. I think they had only gritted the footpath as far as the bus stop. Luckily I got some new walking shoes for Christmas so I wore those on Friday and was fine.
There is a whisper we may finally get some snow this winter. I absolutely love snow so have been jealous seeing my friends in the American mid-west and there many inches or feet of snow. ❄️ ⛄️ Stay safe friends, I’m sure it’s not amusing having to get out and about but the photos are all beautiful so keep sharing them on your blogs.
This is a Year of Projects post. Officially the Group is in its 13th year, but this is my 6th year participating. If you would like to find more about the Year of Projects Group on Ravelry, as you’d be very welcome to join us. (There are 53 Sundays this YOP year, it happens sometimes!).
HighlandHeffalump 
Glad you didn’t get hurt in your Bambi reenactment. Your handspun yarns are really pretty. Glad you are back on the lampshade felting mojo. They are so beautiful. I LOVE the sparkle addition idea.
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Thank you
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Wow, those lampshades! And the spinning is just gorgeous, must get myself an EEW 6 too!
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Mine is a Nano 2. Much cheaper and ideal size for minis.
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You certainly got a lot done this week. Those lampshades are going to be awesome. I am liking your gansey design on the blanket. You are making great progress on the spinning too. I love to declutter but hubby not so much. Kind of makes it hard lol. I am getting stuff put of the house and he is bring stuff in!
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My husband last week agreed to getting rid of a few things he’d said no to going in 2020 so it’s worth re-trying. You’d barely know my husband lives here, my hobbies occupy so many rooms 😱
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Your wet felting lamp shades are always so pretty. Those marled skeins are beautiful, love the marling on yarn! I bought my son the EEW6 and he is enjoying it, but if you don’t need the bigger skeins (could the Nano 2 spin a bigger one?), why pay more. You have a standing wheel tho, right?
I hope you get your snow but that it melts off the streets fast :P. They put salt and sand on our streets after the big plows go through. That makes you have to wash your car periodically during the winter tho because salt will cause rust on your car, I do that whenever we have a day in the 20’s or higher.
Leg warmers are nice, they add that extra warmth. Love the Gansey afghan, Gansey designs are some of my favorites.
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Thanks very much, yes I have two normal wheels too, Ashford Traditional and Traveller. My Traditional has the jumbo flyer fitted for doing plying nowadays so I spin on either the nano or my traveller. I have woken up today with proper snow on the ground, only looks an inch but complete coverage not a dusting so that’s exciting.
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I had a traveller, loved it, but it was neglected before I got it and needed a lot of repair so I ended up giving it to someone who would do the repair and love it. It spun nice until the repairs started showing, the Traveller was not finished and the the wheel over the years had warped and would shake and that make the long screws in the maidens eat the wood up and the maidens got wobbly, the wheel would have cost about $150 to replace and then finding someone who could fix the wood to re-screw in the maidens. It was my first wheel and I didn’t realize the problems. It was gifted to me so I wasn’t out anything, just sad. I really need to get a jumbo flyer for my Kromski Polonaise!!! My bucket list wheel is the Golding Glory spinning wheel :P.
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Meant to say, glad you got a little show, would be happy to send you more :P.
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Beautiful and perfectly sea-like colors you’ve chosen for your felting projects! They are lovely.
I love seeing snow and I love cold weather but I don’t love driving in it so much. We’ve had an active snow winter (for us) but nothing like what they got in the northeastern part of the US this last weekend!
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As always, lovely projects! Nice to see you doing some lampshades again – they are so cool 🙂 Your gansey blanket and spinning are beautiful!
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