Only a little bit left to go! I’m really pleased that the bead colours were a lot brighter than the print looked.
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Washed my first handspun to set the twist & weighted it to dry in an attempt to even things out. Nope, my first handspun is a hot mess of wiggles because parts are way overspun. That’s ok, I never expected it to be perfect.
Now I’m going to put it back on the niddy noddy until I can wind it into a cake & in the meantime figure out a use to show off it’s wiggly character.
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Ok, I’m good for roving now.
The scandi wool is for support spindle practice & Felting Ewe roving is destined for some shawls. The rest is just because it’s delicious blends & I got enough to knit some small items once spun.
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Hemmed all the raw edges before glueing the fur down. Glueing was tricky because the back under the sail had to remain open for the hood to fit over, then that had to be henson stitched closed. Still needs a nose/eye trim.
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My new gossamer support spindle, made by local Australian artisan The Spindle Shop, along with a reversible support bowl arrived.
This spindle is absolutely lovely. It’s made from banksia, lacewood, and frogwood & weighs 16 grams. The support bowl has a shallow dimple and a deeper dimple & is made from camphor.
This is my first time using a support spindle, so the yarn is a bit lumpy and the included fluff was coarser than I’m used to, but I can see me enjoying spinning supported.
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The simplicity of the colour scheme of this design is making it incredibly relaxing to do up.
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Started up my Harmony roving on a new banksia pod spindle. Meanwhile the 100g Ice&Fire roving was finished and pulled off onto the niddy noddy (498yds / 455m), freeing up the spindle for the next 100g ball.
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Decided to do another diamond paint. This one is tricky as the symbol sheet is printed incredibly poorly and many of the colours have very similar symbols.
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Scored this vintage german-made manual mitre saw on ebay for $50. I dissembled it and cleaned all the parts using mild soap mix applied with a toothbrush, rinsed off with clean water, toweled, and left to finish air drying. After all parts were bone dry, I went back in with fine steel wool and WD40 to clean off all the surface rust, then rag wiped on a light protective coat to prevent further rust damage. With the addition of a new blade, this tool is good as new & ready to be put to work.
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Mokobuns (twitter) has been making a plush doll of K’rahmyte I comm’d. Right at the end I realised that my wingspan detail on the ref was missing his dromeosaur hands, even though I’d drawn them on the fullbody!
We both died ☠️
Ref is fixed now (& I feel vaguely stupid), and thankfully adding in the hands to the plush will be relatively simple.