Michelle's FOs
Icelandic fleece from a black, gray, unspotted ram named Louie. It is 2 ply and bulky weight.
Two finished needle felted pictures. The first is two gnome scenes from a tutorial by Living Felt.
And the zentangle dragon I mentioned in the show.
Random fibers for felting before carding:
In their lumpy, bumpy form, they aren't as easy to wrap into bases as batts or roving. Here are a couple gnome bases ready to be covered after wrapping a chenille stem from the batt.
It might be fun to leave some multicolored.
Erica's WIP
Erica is trying a new procedure for spinning. Rather than spinning singles and plying right away, she is spinning up singles until she hits a low energy point or runs out of bobbins.
Here is a slew of some singles she has spun up, most of these singles are from her advent calendar.
The advent calendar has been quite fun and came at a good time in this experiment. Since there are only about an oz or so, the calendar really lends itself to spinning up singles and the coming back to ply them later. This will let Erica have a good think about if she wants to ply some of the advent yarns together or with other colorways. This is the Mixed Fiber Advent Calendar from Nest Fiber Studio.
Erica is also spinning for the Wool N Spinning Breed and Color Study Organic Polwarth. The fiber for the study was dyed by Crafty Jaxs. Here are the two color ways, the control and the colourway broken up with white and brown.
Here is Erica's initial 3 play yarn of the control colourway.
Here is the current progress on the damask fabric.
TJ' socks, this is a more recent photo, you can see I did manage to turn the heels while on holiday in Finland!
Finally, last but not least Luna the Newfoundland!
Michelle's story about intending to clean her craft room, but ending up being distracted into casting the monitor-perching dragon was so relatable! I laughed, because I have had similar experiences many times. My crafting area is in our living room, right near our sliding doors, and often tempts me away from other tasks.
ReplyDeleteErica's sunroom sounds great! The natural light near my own crafting area is what drew me to set up there. Did the natural light in your sunroom have anything to do with your decision to craft in the space?
How do both of you feel that natural light vs. artificial light helps with/works against the ease of, or enjoyment you feel in, working at your various crafts? For example, is it easier to see what you're doing when spinning or weaving under a strong artificial light? Does sunlight make it easier to judge the quality of the colors you're dyeing a particular batch of yarn? Or do either of you prefer one type of light over the other, just as a simple preference in the pleasure of crafting?
Thanks for another great episode!
Sadly, the craft room has gotten worse rather than better. I came up with a better layout for some of the storage units, but that meant getting an old bench out of the craft room (not an easy feat because it was so large...thankfully my husband loves me) and a new desk/table in. I also just need to shift stuff around, so right now stuff is piled waist high in half of the room so I can arrange the other half.
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