al dente crafting

Some little pride hearts I made to give away at a local pride event! I made several rainbow and trans hearts and dropped them off at the table for my local pride org to give away alongside the free stickers they were alrady giving out. Then I made the nb one while I had some coffee at the event and dropped it off too!

TdF day 2: I managed to fill my spindle with the Icelandic fleece, so rewarded myself with starting this beautifully soft wool that’s just labelled ‘Chilean’.

This is my progress so far, I'm loving this spin even though the wool has a fair amount of vegetable matter in it. Im in love with this color (called Sea Glass) 😍 and it's spinning up beautifully

25mm (approximately) lasercut chipboard tablet weaving cards. I have 25 of them, and they need to be cleaned off before I can use them.

Tour de Fleece days 1-3! The cool toned bobbins are getting plyed tomorrow. They’re a cultivated silk blend that was extremely challenging to spin. I’ll have notes on their finished post, that’s for sure.

A few weeks ago I admired tiny spindles and @ofchaosgoddess offered to send me one... but she sneakily sent me TWO and also a gorgeous squishy batt!!!!! The batt is romeldale + rambouillet + silk; unbeknownst to her (I assume), romeldale is possibly my favourite wool and also difficult or impossible to find here in England. The spindles are 8 grams each and I've never used a cross-arm spindle before so I really need to look up how to wind the cop. They are gorgeous and perfect and fun to use and I feel they will fly away if I breathe on them.

How tiny are they? THIS TINY:

2) Full spindle! This is, uhhhhh, 5 grams. I estimate it took between 5 and 10 hours of spinning. Ran it through the yardage counter as I chained it into a plying ball and it claims 200 metres. Yikes.

I have 7 or 8 grams of the batt to go. I think I will carry on making singles and then ply the whole lot onto my 18 gram spindle, which I used to think was so small!

TdF Day Five: A Teal Unicorn Barf

~160g/275m, spun and plied today from a John Arbon limited edition falklands corriedale.

I found this jelly roll on sale when I was out of town and it’s so pretty.

Imma chop it up and make something with it!

TdF Day -1: Pink/White Singles Happy Tour de Fleece! I had zero chill so here's my TdF Day -1 entry for some pink roving I had kicking around.

I went for one super fine single (spun Z) and one slightly thicker single (spun s). I've spent too much time staring at Sarah Anderson's Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs and got it in my head that I wanted to try a boucle so... yeah. Expect a lot of little textured samples this first week of tdf.

We have achieved full rowage!

Now for the columns. Not sure I’m going to make a whole 5 columns with my next colours, but by the gods we’re going to try…!

Had an online class today (voluntarily; trying to keep my skills fresh while working on my dissertation), and I think old monk handwriting goes great with some spinning.