a knit stitch a day keeps the boredom at bay

Say hello to my new little friend. He doesn't have a name yet, because he's to become a Christmas gift to my dad who had wished for a little frog friend this year. I love him anyway. So cute it's ridiculous.

Finished! I have some dark brown corriedale that should pair well with this and I'm considering this sock pattern for it

Look at this. Green and pink is simply the best colour combination in all its variants.

Obviously this fibre wants to be a fractal spin. I'm gonna do a 2-ply to get some decent meterage; I split it 1:4.

Corriedale is one of my favourite wools, and combining it with silk is a stroke of genius. Look at that shimmer 💖

Typical for Corrie, the wool was an off-white prior to dyeing. The darker hairs are still visible if one looks closely. I love this, wool should not be too uniform, it is grown by living creatures.

sowing: I learned how to use a handspindle with a distaff recently (like you see in historical pictures) and it's SO easy, it's literally so easy, I never really got the hang of hand spindles before but this is so easy, the yarn almost spins itself, I could go through this entire 200g braid in 3 days, I could spin enough to make a whole garment!! Bow before me! I am the king and queen of fibre crafting!!!!

Time to spin and knit me a peach!

But oof, I am rusty, I spun it too thin...

They got their bath last night, so they should be dry enough to start knitting!

2nd attempt at this I will not rest until I get the colours in my head onto the wool perfectly.

(This attempt is looking very promising honestly)

This is probably the first time I've gotten the dye to (mostly) do what I want it to!

A bog coat! @bookshelfdreams, how'd it go?

I have become obsessed with bookbinding again and subsequently abandoned all my fibre crafts; I had originally planned to put in a few more details & decided to skip those (only did 1 inside pocket, no additional embroidery, etc. Also, forgot to line the outside pockets). But my obligation to Killie was sufficient motivation to at least finish the damn thing. Genuinely thank you so much for all you're doing, it had been laying around unfinished for months.

Here it is:

This is, of course, not a classic bog coat. It's more of a jacket for one; my fabric was too narrow to do the actual pattern. But it's still minimal waste, making the pattern follow the fabric instead of the other way 'round.

Embroidery on the sleeves that I definitely planned to put there from the start. This is not just an attempt to cover up the seams from tacking on additional fabric after I made the sleeves too short like an idiot.

The sleeves on this thing are disproportionately enormous but at least they won't crush my puffy shirts.