al dente crafting

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.

Tour de Fleece day...6? (July 9)

I only managed like 20 minutes today, but it still counts as spinning every day! Please ignore the piece of my hair just hanging out in the fiber supply

Instead of more spinning, I decided to play with acid dyes on 10g strips of eider fleece.

The results are very pretty, and the dyes exhausted well, which I was relieved about. (The right hand strip of plain fleece is totally a control, and not me running out of spoons for a third test)

I've been on hiatus from this project for a few weeks now while I work on other things, but I am partway through carding and processing the tunis fleece I washed last summer. Not sure yet what I'll end up doing with it, but I'm very pleased with how it's spinning up so far.

Also still working on spindle spinning my Woolen Wytch batt (photo from day 1 as I'm in the garden and cba to walk in to the house to takea new photo).

Not spinning quickly but spinning every day which is what I really wanted to achieve!

Spun another ~13g to finish off this bobbin. Found the backup bobbins (or at least some of them) so I can avoid a dual spin/ply day for a while longer. 2-3 days until this spin is done and I have to start rolling dice.