was gifted a GIANT bag of icelandic roving that got felted via "I am leaving this in a plastic bag and moving it back and forth A Lot" so I'm...out here I guess I'll arm knit it into some kinda...shawl type thing?? maybe??
got my first bjd!!! and scaling up some monster high pattern pieces and eyeballing the rest, i made him some pants and a little hooded jacket, since this is not in fact a dick out kind of look. he'll look even better once his wig gets here, but ahhh, so many clothes to make!! I can't wait to nail down the issues and make them more polished looking. Spoiler: doll pic and he's. Big. for scale: him next to my Monster high/Every after high mashup mannequin doll. His torso is as tall as a can of soda. Spoiler: doll pic 2
Made a tunic. Thought "Huh, those sleeves are set wrong." Adjusted and reset the sleeves. Thought "those sleeves still don't look like they're going to fit." Then thought it would be fine because I didn't want to do extra work. Finished the tunic. Let the customer try it on. Surprise! The sleeves didn't fit. So now I'm remaking and putting new sleeves into a finished tunic. Which. Is more fun than getting a pair of completed sleeves out of a french seamed linen tunic. Which I also have to do tonight. Yay.
Finished the tunic. I’m not charging the guy for the couple things I had to redo because I really should have known better. Adhd is strong today, and I kind of had a moment between taking it out of the sewing machine and hanging it up to take pictures. Got distracted for a couple minutes and looked over to, uh.
trying to use up fabric scraps by making patchwork quilted bags! I don't recommend quilting with heavy upholstery fabric though. I have regrets.
Finally had the spare money to look into spinning my own yarn, so I bought myself a drop spindle beginner's kit off etsy! The bundles of roving are a bit too small to go making more than a few metres of yarn each, but I reckon (once I've spun them all) I might be able to knit a stripey hat for my partner. Still got a looooong way to go before I've worked out how to keep an even thickness though XD Spoiler: Drop spindle and pretty roving Also recently finished yet another super-long scarf for a friend, this one with an intarsia'd wavy pattern going down the length of it Spoiler: Scarf
Aaaaaaaaaa, thank you! I got a bit better as I went along, so the later ones are defintiely tighter and more uniform, but tbh I still love the texture I wound up with for the early ones and I reckon they're all gonna look fantastic knitted into a hat! Spoiler: finished spinning! You are so very correct there, my friend. As soon as I finished the roving I got I immediately started looking up where I could by more and gdi why is everything on etsy so very expensive... I don't suppose anyone here knows any good places to buy roving or similar in the UK? I'm not too fussed in terms of type or colour of fibre as long as it's reasonably soft (and tbh I'm real tempted to just buy a bunch of raw fleece and go from there, but I know my joints wouldn't appreciate having to hand-card it all and hoo boy are even small drum carders are currently out of my price range)
