Acquisitions/Collection Curation
I managed to give away some of my stash yesterday, including some sari silk, throwsters waste silk and some sari cut ends waste. All suitable for others to use in a project, just bits I know I won’t use and are taking up some space.
Air Dry Clay
I have made more Minions! There is still tons more clay left, so suspect you may be seeing some more. I have also thrown in a Mike Wasawski…although he is missing arms and legs but he looked not quite right so I thought I’d save some green for a better attempt. I also had a go at making a rose too!
Fluffy the unicorn with Dave sitting on top, the Evil Minion and Bob holding Tim the teddy-bear were officially in the kit, the others I just had a go at copying other minions in my collection. I would say I definitely haven’t mastered it yet, especially the eyes but it is fun. Once it is used up I can’t see me buying more.
Knitting
Don’t faint folks, but I have actually cast on a new knitting projects. It is a Hitchhiker shawl by Martina Behm (my 4th). I had started one a few weeks back with superwash wool but I just don’t like the feel of superwash yarn in garter stitch. So I am using the handspun Jellyfish Sprite blend that I finished in week 30, Bluefaced Leicester and Mulberry Silk. I have only just made a start on it so will save the photo until there’s a bit more progress next week.
Whilst I had my swift, yarn length measurer tool and ball winder out, to turn this handspun from skein to cake ready to knit with, I caked up most of my handspun. Am I sure that all of that yarn I caked up had been soaked and had its twist set? Nope 😬
Spinning
Yesterday, at the Guild, I attended a Luxury Fibre spinning workshop. It was a really nice day and we had a go at spinning a variety of fibres: Dehaired baby camel top, bleached camel down, Angora rabbit top, Angora rabbit cut fluff!, some carded alpaca, mohair curls that we combed ourselves and then some prepared mohair top. Then we moved on to silk preparations including degummed cocoons, silk hankies and tussah silk top.
I haven’t managed to ply it all yet, but I have chain plied the silks and mohair so far. I shall chain ply the rest later today.
Other News
This week flew by and as I write this I am struggling to remember where a lot of my time went…certainly not on laundry which will need climbing ropes to get to the top of that pile soon. I also didn’t manage to find time to read everyone else’s blog posts from last week, but I will catch up. Where the heck did my time go? I am sure it will come to me as soon as I click publish.
See you next week!
This is a Year of Projects post. Officially the Group is in its 15th year, but this is my 8th 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.
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