Textileophile

 Hey there!  I've been busy stitching this past week!  No knitting, surprisingly, this is all hand stitching in various forms. I worked on and finished the bag that someone commissioned from me.  I sent it off to it's recipient yesterday morning.   The second photo is a close-up of the embroidery that went on the front.  I'm really happy with how it turned out.  I don't have a lot to say about the project, although I do want to point out that it was one of the very best bags I've ever sewn.  Everything lined up in ways that it usually is just a liiiitle bit off.  So, I was excited to make such a thing for someone who would love it. (And who paid for it, sometimes I feel a little bit awkward making things for people when they're paying me.  Let's call it Imposter Syndrome) And now you can see, I'm right back on gum, err, right back on cross stitching Pokemon obsessively.  I was so obsessed with stitching on this that I almost regretted not being able to w

 Quite a bit has happened since I last posted.  I, again, dropped the spindle.  I have important things to do.  Like start a sweater for Zac: This sweater start is more than it seems.  I had to do some real designing.  Which meant swatching!  I swatched out the chart from the blue cabled hat that I made the other month, White Frost by Babette Ulmer, along with a panel of regular stockinette plain stitching.  The point was to gather my gauge, but also to gather the difference between cable and stockinette gauges.  This way I can take the width of the pieces and figure out how to make the cabled panels centered on the pieces, to make it intentional, and also make the sweater fit. So far, So good!  I'm enjoying the knitting on this a lot more than the old one, which is the whole point.  Something... pulled me away from this though. And caused me to fall down a rabbit hole that is cross stitch. So, I got enabled.  Hazel, my daughter, as you might know, has been obsessed with Pokemon si

 Boy I've been busier than I expected since I last posted!  I have quite a few things to talk about! I'll start with the socks!  I have a new pair of socks for my sock drawer! So fancy! I got cracking on those hexies: I finished the panels, added embroidery to the main fabric, and turned out a fancy project bag!  Very Fancy! I chose the embroidery I did cause Zac used to call me strawberry.  It's super cute, I love the hexies, really ties the room together, erhm, the bag design together. ^^ I also did a brave thing the other day.  I frogged Zac's sweater.  Went from about 9" of the back, to a big ol' ball o yarn: Maybe not so fancy? I am currently working on a commission for another hexie bag.  I'm really excited about this, but I kind of want to keep it secret for awhile?  So far I've worked on the embroidery.  Hexie fabric is coming in the mail. And lastly, I finally got my crafting chair in the mail!  craft room phase 2: Still waiting on the desk.  B

Perhaps I'm not in the right headspace for posting, but it has been a week and a half, and things are happening. Not a lot of things, mind.  It's sort of like last time, I have dabbled a little in quite a few little things.  So, without further ado, I suppose I should get to jabbing about them. I've been enjoying daily spinning sessions on my drop spindle like I promised: This was taken after the first day's session. And here it is now: So, maybe it doesn't look like a lot, but drop spindling is slow.  Especially when you only do it for 20 minutes at a go.  But progress is there!  Don't worry.  Plus, as the spindle fills up, it takes longer to see progress. ;) Spinning is one of those things that multiplies. I had it in me to spin on my spindle, and then I ended up spinning on my wheel: This is 100% polwarth I got from Greenwood Fiberworks over on etsy.  I was originally planning a traditional 3-ply yarn, letting the colors blend and barber pole, but I think I&#