*cackles* I managed to get 400g of ‘ice cream’ merino & milk fibre singles on my bobbin. I’m planning to measure off 3 equal lengths of singles to 3 ply with a sparkly silver thread.
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Eeeeeeeeeee! Look what arrived yesterday! The largest fibre order I have EVER made and the currency conversion was horrific, but these colour ways are just. so. gorgeous! I have no regrets. Fibres are handdyed by Fossil Fibres.
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I present ‘Prince Johnny-Seed’ the apple themed barong.
This sculpt was so damn fun to paint and I have lots more fruit themed ideas for this sculpt. I have decided this one is going to stay within my personal collection for now.
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Completed crochet cowl made from cormo & merino.
I ended up adding additional edging details because the cast on and bind off didn’t visually match. I might do this again with different handspuns.
Base pattern is by CrochetTheHighway.
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Fibre washing day 2 was a roaring success. This time with parrot supervision (he knows “hot” and “careful” means don’t go near things). White is Leicester from two different farms, black/grey is merinoXleicester.
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First lot of scouring completed! This is 2 Leicester fleeces; one from NSW and one from Victoria. Also had some space in the bags to do some of the dark LeicesterXMerino fleece.
It’s shocking how filthy sheep is & the transformation from yellow/grey to white is astounding! I’m going to have to somehow clean the remaining dirt off the lock tips after they’ve dried though.
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After proof of concept worked, I went to town fussy cutting & carefully, selectively sticking washi PET tape to onto the saddle. Some of the stickers were really hard to get wrinkles out of because of curves in the sculpt, some I just had to accept.
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Randomly decided to make a bunch of wax food wraps & got my partner involved. It was really fun, got rid of a bunch of fabric from my stash, & was incredibly sticky because of the pine resin mixed into the beeswax.
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Finished handspun shawl.
This ended up being washed/blocked multiple times because unknown to me one of the black welsh skeins still had dirt in it, which distributed dirt throughout the shawl when initially washed. There’s still some light staining in parts of the marled yarn, but it’s much much better than before.
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Completed cross stitch lighthouse. This came out so pretty, can’t wait to get it framed.