Lord High Executioner

I have a little list.

I counted my knitting projects yesterday. Without even delving into the stash in the official craft room (as opposed to the rest of the house), I got upto a dozen Works in Progress. One is a purple cardi which has been waiting probably a year to have just three buttons sewn on. The green cardi needs buttons sewing too, but I still need to buy the buttons for that. I think. I did finish the knitting of one bag this morning over breakfast (hey I'm on flexi - I don't need to leave the house until gone 9) but it still needs the ends sewing in before felting in the washing machine. I will try and be disciplined and not start anything else until I have finished something. This shouldn't be too hard as I can just do some spinning if I really need more variety.

The future's tweed

My local Guild of Weavers Spinners and Dyers has an annual competition and this year the subject is a Bag. The deadline is November, but for the first few years I entered I took this to mean I started the project in November and finished it less than two weeks later. This year I have A Plan. It's a carpet bag from Vicki Square's Folk Bags, made in tweed Rowan in the original. So tweed spinning it is. I dyed some roving yellow and red on Sunday and started spinning it tonight. I've only recently started dyeing with acid dyes, and it's not that the colours are brighter than plant dyes, just have a wider range including pinks and purples. I think there are about a dozen colours in the bag so that's still plenty of more dyeing to do.

Brave new world

Inspired by an Olympic Knitter from Team GB who I met in Cheltenham here's my first attempt. I was on the Knitting and Crochet stand knitting the Inca bag from Folk Bags by Vicki Square. The characters look like Pacman from the video games of years past, only more pink. I have realised one way to attempt to decrease the size of the stash is to knit bags with it, in order to store yet more wool. Niece Number Three visited during the week and declared that I had 85 balls of yarn in my house and that was why I wasn't married. I pointed out to her I had masses more than 85 balls of yarn and I wasn't married because I had never asked anyone.