Needed to do something repetitive & slightly mindless. I’ve been making up more bookmark & earrings designs – they’ll hit my etsy shop once I get nicer weather to photograph everything (it’s been pretty damn rainy lately).
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Finished chain plying all the wheel bobbins. I have subsequently learnt that I can’t chain ply for long periods on the wheel at all because it pulls my shoulder muscles too much.
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Oof, doing the black lace section was a trial! My tension is clearly tighter than the pattern makers which cause the lace to be slightly firmer than the rest of the texture sections, which likely means it won’t block out as wide as the pattern image. To compensate I did 2 more repeats of the lace than what the pattern called for so either way the lace will still be the prominent showcase texture.
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Ok, I’m now ready to tackle plying all my wheel bobbins!! All of these are going to be chain plyed to hopefully get a nice light DK weight yarn.
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TDF progress update! I have finished the fractal yarn, all the bobbins have now been plied, the brown icelandic single is finished, & the cotton is progressing. I also prepped 200g grams of ‘berry burst’ roving into rolags because I impulsively decided I needed a lofty woolen spin for the planned chunky yarn.
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WIP of the mammoth cowl. I’ve been getting irrationally annoyed that some of the random single stitches in the forest section have been coming out ‘large’ & ‘wonky’. I had to look back at wips of the dino cowl to reassure myself that this is fine/normal and will even out in blocking. The cool thing now is you can clearly see the wooly rhinos and some mammoth feet & trunk now.
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Had a hankering for embroidery so I started up this sweet little lighthouse from my stash.
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I decided to be slightly more relaxed for TDF this year. My goals are to spin up the wools shown, as well as some egyptian cotton I prepped into rolags, – if everything is singles at the end I’m cool with that.
I’m also doing a chill bingo from one of my discord fibre groups & I’ve already got a bingo!
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Completed pet portrait. This commissioners companion rock pidgeon was lovingly handpainted on a windstone pyo rock dragon.
They’ve already had this piece for a while. I just like showing the wip lead up to the finals.
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I finished up the red dorset, managed to get a decent yield with the only waste being big matts/nepps. I’m planning to spin this on my new Allen Berry spindle to ‘break it in’.