Lena Makes Stuff

I have two main goals: spin every day, and finish my treadle wheel WIP.

I have a few stretch goals, for which I earn a little treat (<$10) for completing. These are spinning at least 200g, combing wool for the first time and spinning it, and trying a new breed/fibre. That last one can be earned multiple times, but not for the same project. I'm actually very bad at rewarding myself, so I have a little list of things to pick from (Twix bars, fancy donut, fav panini).

I have a list of 6 projects to work on, so I'm not floundering on what to work on next, but there's no pressure to finish anything except the ongoing WIP.

That means the espinner is totally freed up for TDF!

Made a Tour de Fleece calendar! Graphic design is not my passion, but feel free to use it. I would've liked to have more space to write in each box, but, uh. I don't know how to do that. I'm probably just going to put stickers on the days I spin.

“I can finish this spindle spin today, there’s only a couple rolags left—”

Guys. Spindle spinning takes so long. I need to lock in.

Aside from my ongoing treadle wheel project, I’m probably going to use my espinner exclusively for Tour de Fleece. Yes, I found the cross spindle extremely valuable last year for getting in just a couple minutes of spinning to check off the day, but. Ultimately I don’t want to spin a large quantity on a spindle and I’m not interested in spinning small quantities (<100g).

I somehow managed to bruise both sides of my arm??? I think I hit the pallet that broke my fall with one side and the box I was trying to get down fell on the other.

This gave me trouble, but it’s done. Just needs wet finishing.

This was three 50g batts of BFL/alpaca blend that I got from the fibre festival in March. The first batt went great, not a lot of problems though definitely some VM. The second two batts were FULL of nepps and second cuts. And VM.

I skipped the social crafting drop in (where I have been the only one there the last two times I tried) yesterday to go pick up that wool from a seller on FB Marketplace, but I figured that was fine because I was going to take a knitting class today a city over.

There is no way I could deal with the pressure of that. I am sure that some people can do a bingo without pressuring themselves but I’m not one of them.

My main goal is to finish my treadle wheel WIP. I have plenty of other ideas, but those are more idle daydreams than goals…

About 1.5 kg in all, for $60. This is a terrible picture but it’s hard to showcase flat bags of undyed wool in a way that makes it seem impressive. Most of it’s unlabelled, and some of it’s labelled as two different things, so. It’s difficult to know how to add it to my stash tracker.

But! At least it’s all vacuum sealed so it doesn’t take up much space!