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Just over ten months' worth of spinning progress, from first to latest -- at least in terms of my spinning class! I'm pretty sure I'm missing a few skeins, and this doesn't include everything I've spun since class ended in April, but it's so cool to see all of my progress laid out like this!
Now, to get ready for the Tour de Fleece, and to keep practicing with my new super flyer...
Completed ‘Silver Needle Tea’ shawl in gradient cotton yarn & tigers eye/yellow crystal accents dangles.
Pattern is the SilverNeedleTea Shawl by RedTeapotAtelier.
Knitting finished as of last night! Still need to weave in a few ends, wash, and block.
Was aiming for 48” x 60”, came out 39” x 60” so far, but I’m hoping to be able to block it to a little wider and I’m ok losing a few inches of length for that
singles in Taste the Rainbow from World of Wool spun on my supported spindle, and undyed East Friesian from Black Sheep Creamery spun woolen-style on my EEW 6
I need to remember to take pictures of braids before I unravel them, I just get too excited.
This is a Merino/ silk blend from the Felting Ewe.
Spun as a fractal.
There was a fair bit of singles left on the short repeat bobbin, so I chain plyed it off, and it turned out to be three whole repeats. The colours are so vibrant.
It's cool seeing the skeins next to each other.
This project is definitely a marathon and not a sprint, but I’ve finally gotten far enough that I can get a better picture of the ‘right’ side. It’s definitely going faster now that I’ve figured out the rhythm of the design a little more but we’re still talking like. Two inches an hour.
Very cool technique! Looking forward to doing more (with wool instead of cotton) in the future. The material makes a pretty significant difference in design legibility.
My mother has claimed this one which is fine by me since it’s mostly been an experiment anyways.
Blocked the SilverNeedleTea shawl and I’m pleasantly surprised at how generally even the large holes turned out (they had me worried whilst crocheting). After it was dry I decided that it needed an extra element to really ‘pop’ the design, so I added some bead dangles (tigers eye stone & yellow crystal) on every edge point.
ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds
I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study
after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines
et voila
and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)
and now, the birds
Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus
Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius
hoo boy, ok *out of breath*
GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!
this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render
speaking of obnoxious coverts:
bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata
the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it
Madam....
birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female
pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr
*melts into goo*
BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus
genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??
nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)
in other news, I am losing my mind hairline
SHE'S DONE!!
Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis
my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on
this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏
*does a little jig*
BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos
the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise
ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!
Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹
aaaand another one bites the duck,
we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos
the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you
power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,
the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis
and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.
Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp
thanks for the reminder, kid
at long last, we've reached the end...
Bird number 14 out of 14,
The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius
thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.
i'll see y'all soon :')
finally finished this!! took me 4 months but i really love the result <33 pattern
Hey, this very, very bright little guy I've been working on? He's finished, at last! It was so much fun to share him with my threadpainting students. Also, the caterpillar's name is Bob...
An embroidery of the Wikipedia page for embroidery.
An Incomplete List of Fonts I Would Like to Digitize Someday
All from the Antique Pattern Library
This twisty one
This pleasantly-flourished simple one. it's quirky.
I have no clue how one would include backstitching in a font, but it would look so good
This Art Deco set, from a pamphlet where it shares space with both the most stunning animal illustrations you've ever seen and also the world's most baffling, hideous borders
This one has a lowercase set, too. In a modern context this reads more as a retro game font than a cross-stitch one.
these would look INSANE stitched. more of a monogram font than one for sentences, but who cares. I could figure out some lowercases and this would absolutely COOK
Love the weight of this one. Gothic, fun, but not large enough to be unwieldy.
The first twisty font is better, I think. but if I had infinite time I'd do this one too
A very respectable twist on a classic sampler font. could get a lot of mileage out of this one
hot take but I think with a good lowercase set this one would also be good for a lot of things-- party in the capitals, but keep the lowercase legible.
a very respectable font. you could file your taxes with this one.
their bulbous forms entrance me. I REALLY like that 'H'
Another set that really should only be for monograms... but some part of me wants to believe I could make a proper font around these
LOVE the 'A', like the others. really dig that the original artist included a lowercase set, too
Bonus Monograms I like:
Blue Floral | Thick Line Red Floral | Right Angles
Merino, from the Felting Ewe.
Carded into rolags, spun with my usual short forward draw, then chain plyed.
I got a blending board today! Used the blue merino which came with it along with some stash fibres to create 100g of rolags. I only bled like three times!
Fiber arts update! Spun up a sample of merino/silk mix to test out some colors
Peter Locke's spindles and silk mixes are a perfect match; silk mixes want to be spun fine, and this guy's signature drop spindles really want to spin fine and very fast. This one's a relatively new acquisition, a bottom-whorl, and I adore it. Plus, that darker wood stripe is SO helpful for seeing how fast the spindle is spinning!
As for the yarn: this is specifically a color test for a leaf-patterned shawl; figuring out if this stuff gets me a consistent-enough color to not lose the pattern definition. If this is the stuff I go with, I'd almost be tempted to make it a spindle project - but man, that'd take forever.
Either way, gonna bracelet-ply this stuff soon; any actual knitting yarn would likely have to be 3-ply, but I refuse to try and chain-ply lace-weight worsted singles, and splitting a sample in three felt silly.
So, I have a costume to make/assemble. This may be the most minor part of it , but it is bringing me such joy.
The plan is to make four matching plaid scarves, for myself and others I'll be playing with.
I am spinning to weave, using the concept of fractal yarn, but it's singles, with the warp as the continuous colour, and the weft split into 8ths.
The above yarn is the warp.
The braids are "cashmerino" by Ixchel, merino/silk/cashmere 55/40/5. They are supper soft, and strong from the silk. A joy to spin, if a bit of an ambitious volume on my part.
