Weaving in Public!

This is what I wanted to do with my loom (can't fit it in the car, even folded, and darn it he beat me to it anyways!). Check out the weaving in action projects by Travis Meinolf. So fun. I guess I will just have to settle for carrying my spinning wheel around and spinning. Though in Fremont people don't look at you *too* strangely for odd art projects- we are quirky like that!

Medium is the Message Sweater

Just waiting for the ends to be woven in, and maybe some buttons to be added. It is a bit too big for me- that's what I get for not really trying it on, but is super cute. Nice and long body, shaped waist and bust darts, etc. I actually could have not done the bust darts and been just fine for this sweater.

As you can see in the picture, I spun up the batts solid, varigated, and then kept some of the batts relatively uncarded so I would get chunks of fiber- big orange stripes, poufs of angelina green sparklies, etc.

Bamboo Bike

Bamboo Bikes I wonder how well these would hold up? Love the idea. I am still waiting for my bike to be finished.

Gained a Dress Form!

I found a cheap dress form/mannequin. Might help cut down on the myspace-esque photos! In the process of carting it home I figured out that one of my car doors will not open. Not sure what happened to the car door- the handles won't work or anything. It is the back passenger door though, so not really an issue since people are never in the car with me- I only drive maybe once a week anyways.

The mannequin is adjustable up and down but is only one size- close enough to me that it is ok for my purposes, I am not planning to sew anything that I can't try on myself as I work anyways. I mostly sew sans pinning fabric too. The cat just knocks the pins over, and the knitted fabrics I am working with right now do not like the pins anyways.

Sewing- converting a shirt to PJ shorts

See this shirt? It fits funny. The elastic bunches up higher than the waist should when you move around leaving you looking...odd.

But the elastic is nice- makes a nice hem. So I cut up the shirt. I cut just above the elastic, then folded it over to sew a zizag hem over a section of fabric that didn't have elastic (it is in 4 panels so I sewed between), pulling the fabric tight since the fabric is not stretchy.



I used part of a sleeve to create a gusset at the bottom after sewing up part of the flaps on the side to make sure the bottom was nice and roomy. Kind of like these boxer instructions, but since I was using the bottom of a shirt I had fewer seams to sew. Sadly not enough fabric at the top to make a matching tank style shirt for sleeping in, but maybe once my stretch lace comes I will make another pair. I need to find more colors of thread first.

$15 grab bag sale

Just a $15 grab bag sale on etsy here
(Plus the usual $10 sale items!)

Micro Greens

Microgreens salad with flowers. Found it at Whole Foods. It is quite tasty, much more interesting flavor than most lettuce mixes.

Spinning fluffs

I am spinning the wool/shredded silk/+ stuff mixture up in tight singles, about a dk weight before washing, hopefully still nice and tightly twisted but closer to worsted when I am done- same as how 220 is a bit thicker than dk but a thin worsted.


It's really quite shiny spun up, despite not letting the mohair fluff out (that makes me itchy!)

Carding Fiber- Silk thrums

Getting ready for the final go through the carder. There are two sections of batts I am spinning separately. One has more hand shredded silk, has gray and white dyed mohair, and plastic bottle fiber mixed with wool. The other is hand shredded silk, clouds of mohair, and lots of cream colored unbleached soy silk.

Free Patterns

The free patterns are back up on Midnightsky Fibers. Includes ideas for knitting projects with just 50 and 100 yards of yarn!