WIPs for June 2018

May is done and dusted, and now it's on to June...I'm happy to say that despite my busy schedule for May, I managed to get rather a lot done. Unless you count blogging!

My main knitting goal was to finish the Lucca shawl, which I did fairly early on in the month. Plus, I finally finished warping my floor loom, and have been happily weaving away on it. And then there were all the workshops! So much fun, and so much information flying around in my head, and there's more to come with MAWS coming up in June! 

Knitting

• If you're tired of hearing me say I'm going to finish that stash sweater someday, I'm right there with you. I did get some excellent ideas on how to rescue it with as little work as possible, so the chances that I actually get to work on that are getting better and better.
• I'm in love with the overdye job I did on the leftover skein from Lucca....but getting a project started with it has proven challenging. The first few attempts weren't quite right, and then I took it over to my knitting machine to learn how to use the lace carraige, which in turn ended up chewing up a bit of yarn in a bad way. So this is in a holding pattern.
• There's that fancy Shetland scarf that needs work, but it requires so much concentration that I rarely have time to work on it. 

Weaving

• I managed to get my floor loom warped, and I'm actually at the tail end of weaving that warp. I did two yards of blue/gray weft, and am aiming for two yards of a fuschia weft. Then, I'm hoping to tie on a new warp to the old one so that I'm not sitting with an unwarped loom for six months. I've also decided there's no huge rush - if I weave about 6 inches a day, I'm happy.
• I'm taking a weaving workshop at MAWS (Montana Association of Spinners and Weavers), so have to get my table loom warped for that. It's actually quite an easy warp, and it's 90% done. 
• I desperately want to build a warp-weighted loom, but I'm thinking it will have to wait at least another month or so. 

Spinning

• The problem with having more than one spinning wheel is that I have a bunch of projects on the go at once. I'm working on consolidating that. But for now, I have two alpaca spinning projects going, and one pound of wool, and....then there's the plying. 

Sewing

• Sewing is back! I managed to make a Gemma Tank without any major catastrophes. More on it later, maybe. I don't love it, and I don't hate it, and I'm thinking my opinion of it is suffering from my fabric choice. So I'll be making at least one more in a different fabric before I give a final verdict.
• The end goal is to make a top or two out of the yardage I'm weaving on my floor loom. So there may be one or two more wearable muslins in my future...

That's it...I think! What are you up to this month?

xx,

​Pamela