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Did I just spend weeks making a fancy cat bed??

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Wet Sheep, ready for drying!

100g of Southdown/Zwartbles/Viscose Tweed came out at 133m, so it is on the chunky side as I had hoped.

Turned out a little less consistent than planned (I ALWAYS manage to start out thinner on both bobbins, even with a sample/plyback tied to the wheel) but eh, it‘ll do!

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Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops

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Progression of mushroom skirt

MUSHROOM SKIRT. MUSHROOM SKIRT.

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Are you a left-handed knitter? Do you knit the normal way or mirrored? Continental or English style?

Let me know by answering the poll. Also feel free to share your experiences in the comments.

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Dyed some fabric for the snail plushie

The yellow one is for the body, the pink for the house/shell. There is also a blue one that still needs to cool down, to have the shell blue/pink striped

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Tomorrow is the dot dye workshop at the guild, prepare for pictures of Poorly Dyed Fibers

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Gute sheep/gutefår. Värmland, Sweden (March 28, 2020).

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Sudoku puzzle blanket!

I came up with this idea when I was thinking about how to properly randomize the colors in a granny square blanket.

You'll need 9 different colors (I used white + 8 shades of purple) and 9 squares of each color. Assign each color a number 1-9. Get a completed sudoku puzzle (or solve one yourself) and start assembling!

I had my squares organized in this bin while I was working and kept this picture saved in my phone with the sudoku puzzle picture to make sure I didn't mix any of the numbers up.

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IT IS DONE

Does anyone remember when I started these? I don’t remember other than it was the beginning of January. I’m so glad it’s finally over though. Ravenwing batts = spun.

I was hoping for at least 1000m, and the final total is 1150m so we are perfect for the lost coast shawl.

I won’t be starting the shawl right away. I want to finish the two pairs of socks I’ve got going, and the shawl I started last week. Plus me and the ravenwing yarn need a little break from each other in order to become friends again

I’m so happy with it though, the colours are beautiful and it’s super soft. If you have the means, I 100% recommend these batts.

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Fiber arts update: lots of WIPs

2 out of 3 singles for the weft of my next weaving project are done:

this is Polwarth/Silk/Yak. Very nice and chill spin, all things considered. Not as easy as that amazing grey merino I spun before that, but honestly still pretty harmless by luxury fiber standards. Bit fuzzy, somewhat prone to slight clumps, but generally very fun.

Before starting the third single, I got my next bunch of fibers in, so I elected to experiment for a bit:

This is a sample of roving that I bought 100g of ages ago and haven't yet figured out what to do with:

The bigger thing is 3-ply with the fiber split into thirds by color, the smaller one is just the whole thing spun with a short forward draw as a 2-ply. I actually prefer the uncontrolled blending over the more controlled, barber-pole look, I think; the surprisingly small amount of green should keep the spin from getting too muddy. It's gonna be a royal pain in either case: There's silk in this one, and it's in two big strands. So, so impossible to work with.

Then, I got myself some cotton:

just slapped on the supported spindle overtop of a red merino practice spin because I'm lazy. Honestly, on the supported spindle it's the easiest spin I've done so far, because the short fibers are actually manageable with an unsupported long draw. I'll give it a try on the wheel at some point, too, just in case it works and is faster, but I wouldn't mind relegating it to the supported spindle if it doesn't; fuck knows the thing isn't getting enough use right now anyway.

And, the highlight of the haul, a baby camel/silk sample:

This stuff is beautiful. A wonderful light caramel kind of color, shimmery as anything, and soft as heck.

it spins up into an almost violently shiny single that looks just as expensive as the fiber is:

Unfortunately, I'm now also 56% tiny, fine, short silk fibers by volume, and I'm pretty sure I have camel hair stuck up my nose.

I'll have to get the second half of this sample spun quickly, before my entire room gets covered in silk fuzz.

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Why, yes. I am knitting a sweater. Why do you ask?

Pattern is vashisht, and it's fun and challenging!

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Giving a thunder stone to your eevee be like ... Kaboom ! Yeah, pokemon again... I like pokemons but it take time to animate them.

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sometimes a braid is destined to be a gradient, even if the dyer didn't think so at the time. (nighttime photos are weeeeird in the saturated yellow light of the office...)

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I've had this giant shawl/wrap thing in my que for a few years now. And as I got ready to do some planning for this year's knitting, goals and wishes and such, I looked over the yarn I had for the project. And realised that part of the reason I was procrastinating starting it was the color of the yarn. (One reason, there are many more. Like I'm designing a lace border for it, never done that before. And then casting on 567sts along that border. Knitting it from the outside-in so to speak. So the rounds become shorter and shorter.) I'm using handspun shetland, a moorit color. So a very nice middle brown. But I've knit and spun so much brown wool the last few years I'm just... I'm done, tired of it. I don't want more.

So ofc I decided to dye the skein. Never dyed brown wool before. Was nervous about it. Because the risk of felting is real. Not so nervous about the color, worst case I could overdye it all black after all. So it's taken me... Many many months to get my butt off to dye it.

Now it's done! It's been through two dyepots though. Because the first one didn't really do anything. I probably used too little dye or something. But now it has this green tone that in some lights look brown, in some green and I kinda love it? The little floof of yarn next to it is the original color, for reference. Because I had already swatched some and I forgot to add that bit to the pot :p But oh well. I'll corporate the little bit of brown into the shawl somewhere. It'll be fine.

Now onto designing that lace border...

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I have not been motivated to spin for a few weeks. But yesterday the motivation came back full force, so know I have a new project on the e-spinner, and 2 projects ready to ply on the wheel.

Here is the progress on the new spin so far: