Lots of new projects going on!!!

A picture of DH's cotton scarf, as promised. 

• I'm working on getting the color gamp on the loom; it's threaded and I'm about 1/2 through sleying the reed.
• I wet spun the linen/merino roving, and moved it to storage bobbins (using water, not spit). I'll let it sit a week or so to let the twist get less lively before putting it on the rigid heddle loom.
• I gathered together all of the quilt magazines for the block and setting that I want to do with the pub quilt blocks and checked to see if I already have templates for the pieces (I don't).  It's written for machine piecing, so I either have to adapt to hand piecing or buck up and machine piece it. 
• I borrowed a drum carder from the Spinning Guild... The DH immediately took it apart and fixed a part that was mis-installed, and made a new handle for it (handle had broken and was replaced by a crochet). I'm still figuring out how to use it; I'm getting a lot of buildup on the front wheel.  Then I'll need to figure out how to spin a batt.
• I took some of the white and brown merino fleece I had from G's destash and dyed it; it'll go on the drum carder later this week. I used too much dye, and didn't rinse it well, so I'll need to hit it with some heat and vinegar after I spin it. I used Saffron, Cayenne Red, and Plum Dandy.It suits the hot weather.
  
  
  
  

Hey! Goals work!

The goal thing is working. I'm setting 6-10 goals and finishing at least 3 of them. This way I have direction but don't feel like any project is work. Updates:

• DH's scarf is finished, and lovely; maybe a little short. I think he'd prefer silk or tencel to cotton, so next time, I'll do that. I screwed up the pattern; left off one of the shafts from a treadle and ended up with some horizontal floats that while wrong, are still quite lovely. I will post pics later of what it should have looked like (I wove off a few inches at the end as a sample) and what it does look like.
• I finished the pin drafted roving I was working on; 22 oz of it. It's roughly DK weight and not next to skin type of wool. I'm thinking of weaving it into some outerwear. 
• All the looms are naked, it's time to start on the color gamp.  I'm still working through the details of the design but it'll be 1 plain weave gamp napkin and 5 twill gamp napkins. That'll give me enough left over to do a table runner with the grey scale.
• Also I think it's warm enough to start on the linen for the Lobster Port scarf from Spin-off a few months ago. It uses Spunky Eclectic's merino/linen blend roving (I bought forest) and Habu's silk/stainless (I think mine is tea green). I need to make a final decision on wet spinning or spit spinning the linen/wool. The enzymes in spit apparently make the linen smoother; however, because of the high merino content, I'm likely to go with just wet spinning it. 
• On the knitting front, I turned in 11 chemo hats at Googleserve; I finished one more and have #13 in progress. I'm trying to knit A-Z hats (one hat with a pattern starting with every letter of the alphabet) in honor of my mother in law and so far have done A-J, L, and O; working on K right now. I'll probably try to do one a month to finish up the alphabet. I also resumed work on the piece I started that's woven and knitted (the cow coat); I ripped out the large unattractive white band and am doing a half linen with the remainder of the hand dyed. At some point I need to figure out the collar.

Today I'm avoiding going into the studio and cleaning it up enough to start working on something. I need to head south in time to get some 10/2 cotton at Purlescence and then run to a 3PM appt. I fear this will put me in the worst of the traffic coming home...