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So the last WIP Wednesday of the month has been the one where I show how much I’ve gotten done on my WIP of the month.

But this isn’t going to be one of those posts.

Why? Because that would be a terrible post showing a project not much further than the last time I shared it.

Instead, how about all the things I’ve done that aren’t that project

Around the start of week 2 I decided to learn how to double knit in three colors. Since then, I’ve gotten this far on that hat-

(pattern - falling blocks by Alasdair Post-Quinn)

Last week I fell down a YouTube/blog tutorial hole, and decided I should learn how to macrame. That led to this little test project (made in yarn, while I waited for the cord that just arrived yesterday)

(pattern from My French Twist)

Last weekend I decided to pull out the spinning wheel and work on the never ending grey-dient I’ve had on it for ages. Made a little progress, here’s what I have now -

(fiber from Frabjous Fibers, Too Much Pepper BFL)

Which brings us to yesterday, when I started a test knit for another designer.

I can’t share the pattern/link yet, just know it will be super cute (and I’ll link when it’s done)

I’m almost afraid to make a WIP goal for next month right now, so I think I’ll give it a few days and see how all these other things are going. I’ve basically been doing whatever I could to keep my brain busy, and I’m honestly not sure the project hopping is over yet.

(related note- Tomorrow afternoon is going to be a rough one, so any spare thoughts would be appreciated)

The Tour de Fleece ended yesterday, and so I held over this week's review until today so I could include my 'finish line' photo.

( That and a few other pics and ramblings hidden here )

Current Mood: accomplished

UPDATE -- Okay, so I think I have all of yesterday's formatting issues cleaned up.
Sorry about that!

Just like last week, daily posts were on my craft blog under the TDF tag for Tour de Fleece
(including some gratuitous pet pictures mixed in with the spinning updates)

( And if you click through this cut you'll see the quick-ish recap right here )

I am SOOOOOOO tired of the hot. So Very Tired.

Now I know you would be fully within your rights to point out that I, the heat hater, moved to the desert, full of heat, like a big dumb idiot.
BUT I urge you to keep in mind that I would be within my rights to squirt you directly in the face with the spray bottle I've taken to keeping in the fridge. Repeatedly. At close range.
So maybe you could just not point out the obvious, and deal with a few days of my whining until the temp finally drops? At least until the highs drop below 100? Please?

( bit more whining and gratuitous yarn and Hedgie pics )

Current Mood: exhausted

No, smooshies is not some bizarro little known ailment -no need to worry!
SMOOSHIES is my very own first timer proper plied yarn.

YAY SMOOSHIES!!

It's a good thing I'm happy enough just toting it around and enjoying its squishability, because I'm not sure what else can be done with just 30 yards of bulky weight yarn.
Must spin more!
(but not today, because it's a Tour de Fleece rest day)

Current Mood: excited

AKA I made it a week without getting distracted and quitting WOOT!!

To the peeps reading this post on Dreamwidth - So as not to cram your friends list with post after post of my tiny increments of spinning progress, I decided to keep the daily progress posts my craft blog and only post weekly recaps here. In case you are curious (or stricken with horrid insomnia and think a week of watching yarn grow might be the cure) you can find my daily posts under the TDF tag at the craft blog

Random people who have wandered onto my blog (probably on accident, and either got lost or too distracted to wander back out) and stayed to read my blatherings - since I'm crossposting here too, you can think of this post as those annoying sportscasters who just keeps repeating everything you've already seen while stalling for more exciting action to come

( click the clicky )

Current Mood: accomplished

A is for Alpaca!

First some belated pictures from my knitting group’s “field trip” to the lunch and fiber event hosted by Natural Maximum Alpacas a couple weeks ago. I say it was kind of like a field trip, but we didn't really have to leave town. The farm is on the town outskirts off in the country, just much further out than I even realized that road went.

(Then a hat I made - Yes! A real live Finished Object!!)

( Read and see more... )

Aka I'm such a joiner.

So it took some peer pressure, but I've started trying to get into spinning. I've probably not even spun an entire ounce yet (and I'm not very good) but I'm trying. I like the idea that i can take a bit of fluff and turning into yarn, then turn that yarn into 'stuff'
Makes me think that if I could master it that I would be awesome über crafter girl.
More likely outcome is that I will mourn the loss of knitting time and give spinning up after a few months, but who knows? This is why I'm started out with just a couple fibers and a drop spindle, instead of massive amounts and a wheel. Well that reason and because I seem to have lost the money tree that was going to allow me to buy all the things I want (maybe I shouldn't have forgotten to water the side yard all last summer)

Anyhow, in order to get better at this whole spinning thing I've signed up with the awesome people on the Pissdrunk Pirates Flouncing Overboard Team for Tour de Fleece. Basically you spin a little every day (while the riders are sinning a whole other way) and by the end (hopefully) you've gotten better. It runs the same dates as the Tour de France (starts June 30 and runs until July 22nd), but being such a new new spinner I figured it wouldn't hurt to practice a bit early. Besides that, my pretty fiber was sitting there unused taunting me.

( giant fibery photos here )

Current Mood: awake

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Wip Wednesday

Another week in review and my TDF finish-line!

My week in review

UUUUUUUGH THE HEAT, Hedgie Wakeup Call, and Tour Day 13

I HAVE SMOOSHIES!!!

Tour de Fleece - the week in review

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