Day 1 of the WoW christmas fibre advent. Today’s fibre is a flax mohair blend.
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Paw assembly is under way. If you look closely you can see the slits for the finger escapes.
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Complete cornflower blackwork.
This represents approximately 50ish hours of work.
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Stitching up a quick little project – a tiny chickadee gardener bird!
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A friend had been wanting a set of my paws for a while but didn’t want to ask because they knew how much work/$$ goes into them. So I decided that would be their Christmas present this year & got them to pick out fabrics from my stash. They’re gonna look sooo cute!
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I patterned & made up a little cover to protect my new wool hand carders. It came out so well that I’m considering making a few to sell.
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Massive disappoint and frustration. When I was finishing this handspun I noticed that the purple colour was bleeding A LOT in the cold water washes.
Bleeding yarn is bad as any wool you knit with it will get bled into the next time you wash it. So I attempted to fix the issue. Hot vinegar baths set the purple but did nothing for the red bleeding…so I went hardcore with RIT dye fixative…which did nothing, meanwhile the white parts of the yarn were getting more and more purply-pink!
I gave up & contacted the fibre club about it, as I certainly don’t expect to pay for spinning fluff that bleeds this bad, especially when their response indicated the bleeding issue from the sari silk neps in their fibre/yarn was known. They were very nice about negotiating a rectification though which was nice.
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I did something crazy & bought an advent calendar this year … a wool/fibre advent calendar!
I’m going to try do a post every day of December this year as I open up each packet of this World Of Wool advent calendar box. This is gonna be fun!
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Wow, what a difference a trim makes! Left before trimming. Right after trimming.
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I managed to ply, wash, & thwack 10 skeins of yarn over just a few days! 🫣
I am thankful for our Australian summer heat which dried these skeins right out overnight.