Friday night sewing

I sat down to sew last Friday with two projects in mind. The first was a fourth of July bandanna for Huck, inspired by the one my cousin gave him for Christmas. I used scraps from other projects, and one side of the bandanna is red, white, and blue and the other is a single lime green print. Huck was very cute and patriotic wearing it for the fourth!

The other project was another pair of cloth napkins. I really love this constellations fabric, and I'm excited to get to use it every day! This fabric turned out to be narrow, so I ended up having to hide a bit of the selvedge in the hem of one of the napkins. Luckily it's not visible now that the hem is finished.

Tour de Fleece: Stage 4

Yesterday (Stage 4) I finished spinning my green shetland singles and started plying them.  The plying goes fast, but there's still a lot to do!  I'm not sure if I'm putting in the right amount of plying twist.  I'm concerned that this yarn won't match the white yarn I intend to knit it with (which I think has not quite enough plying twist and is probably not really the same weight) but I guess I won't know until it's done and washed up!

The yarn is still shedding an alarming amount of dye.  I still have blue fingertips this morning, after washing several times since spinning last night.

Tour de Fleece: Stage 3

I spun for a little less than an hour yesterday (one episode of Star Trek Voyager, which is what we're currently working our way through on Netflix), and I spun probably 10-15 grams of combed top.  I'm pretty sure I'll finish the singles today.

Hydrangea MKAL Shawl

I have a loose intention to make lace shawls to give as gifts to the women in my family.I've seen several mystery knit-a-long patterns over the past year or so, and they looked like to much fun! At the beginning of the summer, I looked up several mystery shawls on Ravelry that were about to start, and chose the Hydrangea MKAL.

I started off almost a week behind because I was waiting for the yarn I ordered to arrive (and then it took forever to wind). After the third clue I caught up, but then I got behind again. As of this morning, all six clues are out but I'm only halfway through clue 4.

 I'm really enjoying knitting the shawl, even (especially!) because it's so different from the lace shawls I've knit before. l don't know yet who I'll give it to, but I can't wait to see the finished shawl!

Tour de Fleece: Stage 2

I did a bit of spinning after dinner yesterday - more than the first day of the Tour de Fleece, but not that much.  I'd guess about 20 grams of combed top.  I'm nearing the end of the green fiber.  I'll probably finish the singles today or tomorrow.  Meanwhile, I'm getting terribly behind on the mystery knit-a-long shawl I'm doing.

Tour de Fleece - Stage 1

Yesterday was the start of the Tour de France.  Stage 1 was a short 13.8km time trial. It was also the first day of the Tour de Fleece! Since it was the 4th of July and I had family plans, I only spun a tiny bit - about 5g of combed top.  (The bobbin is almost full because this is not a new spinning project.  I'm continuing to spin my hand-dyed shetland top from Yarn School at the Harveyville Project two years ago.)

Spinning, spinning

I did my usual Tuesday spinning on Wednesday this week (and I only did half as much as I have the past few weeks).  I'm getting excited for the beginning of the Tour de Fleece on Saturday!