Craft Wrap-Up

I went to knit camp. Did more spinning than knitting. More below.

Quilting (nothing happened in this section. just skip it. Again.)

• Mystery Quilt: (ignored) pieced the center of the top. Starting to think about the fiddly piecing that has to happen, though, and might wrap this one up soon. Still thinking about this, and want to get it moving again before the end of the month.


• The Boy's Quilt: (ignored)  I need to clean my floor, move furniture, and get this sandwiched.


• My Quilt: (ignored) With the no need to think of my son's quilt's piecing, I think this one will sit a little longer.


• The jelly roll quilt: (ignored until the Mystery Quilt is done) I've showed the fabric to everyone who would hold still long enough to look. I'm pondering background colors now.

Knitting

• Birthday tank top: (ignored) I still hate picking up stitches. And there's still a lot of them on this neckline. And so far, I'm not doing it, either. *sigh*


• LIME GREEN TANK: (ignored) did not meet the deadline of SSK in July. Didn't take it with me, either.


• Orange top: Got some love when I got back, because I wanted something with a little more "oomph" than plain stockinette. Almost through the first half of the fun "make holes in perfectly good knitting" portion of this knit.


• New socks! I know. I needed plain stockinette for knit camp (for the plane, then hanging out with people, and so on), so I started a sock, top down. Planned an afterthought heel. Before I got home, I had the first sock past the afterthought heel scrap yarn and am now about halfway down the foot of sock 1. Woo hoo!


• The Hat With No Rav: Done. I messed up the top a bit, but it's a fun funky thing. Still want to poke the creator to put the pattern up there in Ravelry.


• Dishcloths: Finished mine, weighed it, wound out yarn for eight in a holiday yarn where the yarn balls are the same weight, and have already knit half of one of those. I'll start a pile, and weave in ends all at the same time.  1.5/9


• Colorwork Hat: Surprise! And Done. This was a class project from knit camp. I learned how to make a latvian braid, and the colorwork is almost good tension-like. With a little blocking, this will be a Christmas gift for someone.

Cross Stitch (move along, move along...)

• Yellowstone Lodge: (ignored)

Spinning

• Selfish sock yarn: I was away. I did take the wheel with me, but not this fiber. I had classes to take.


• 3#Fiber: (ignored) I'm going to start the test-spinning to reach a DK or Worsted eventually...


• New Market Spinning: I chose a blue-green gradient, from Stitches n' Rows. It excites me to spin--it's going to be awesome when done.


• Class spinning: loads of crap, because I was learning cool new things, like spinning thick, and then thick and thin, then in the other class I learned how to do supported long-draw. And practice is always messy. I'm all kinds of stoked to do more if this, because it's faster than short forward draw (what I do now), and will still give me an awesome yarn.


• Mini-skein from a purple puni: I made a puni! And then we were twelve and giggled over it. THEN it started going limp and falling apart, which reinforced our twelve-ness. So I went ahead and spun it up, then Andean plied, and I love the result. But it's a wee skein, so I'll have to figure out something small and lovely to do with it.