One one loom, some trim that's been there since August. Decided that used too fine of a yarn for the pattern to show, so I don't really like it, so it's sitting there. On the other loom is a mixed-fiber scarf. In the textile labs that I teach the students are given bags of fiber samples--some we use, and some we don't. The "don'ts" have been piling up over the years. Some of them are pretty nice--camel down, yak down, angora. So I brought them home. Literally a hundred little bags with a wee pinch of fiber in each one. It took forever just to open them--for a total of about two onces of fiber which I carded together into a lovely soft gray batt. For the warp I used some alpaca/silk yarn from a previous failed project--so the entire thing is recycled. I'm still spinning the weft--using my charkha. Despite it's small size, it's an amazingly efficient spinning wheel for short fibers. And a special shuttle makes it more efficient. Normally you spin yarn, wind it into a skein, then into a ball, then fill the weaving bobbins. For the charkha, you fill the little spindle, then pop it into the shuttle and start weaving. Pretty cool.
So of course I decide I need to start something new. I really had fun making the warp painted fabric for the skirt a few months ago and want to make some more. Never mind that my dye kitchen isn't heated and it's a mite chilly out there. I at least wound the white yarn, and figured out my palette. Now to clear off a loom . . .
So that's five projects in process and another one started. With my confessions now out there, maybe I can get the antidote to startitus: finishupitis. It's far more rare . . .
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