[Fleecewife]

I suddenly feel like knitting again 
 
Yesterday I started my Hebridean homespun plus silver thread shawl - I was sitting in a wormer presentation by Pfizer so I had to do something     
 
Then when I got home my new super chunky yarn and beautiful 10mm rosewood straight needles had arrived, so I have started a chunky waistcoat with them.  It knits up wonderfully quickly so I have done a good foot of the back already.
 
I haven't quite finished my homegrown but millspun Heb plus Alpaca jumper - just the yoke to complete.
 
Then as my OH keeps reminding me, I haven't quite finished his random Aran jumper from last year - I just need one more idea to complete it (by random Aran, I mean that I do small areas of various Aran stitches, so maybe some cabling, or a bit of bobbley, or different cabling, with the main jumper in stocking stitch)
This is his third random Aran, in yarn from New Lanark.
 
Last but by no means least, I have just one bobbin left to spin of the BFL tops I bought earlier for my repeat Fibonacci jumper.  I'm so nearly there but for the past few weeks just haven't felt like spinning.  Hopefully my revived interest in knitting means spinning will come back soon.   I'm sure if we had a spinning emotidoodah it would help 
 
What is everyone else working on?
 
 

[Bionic]

My goodness Fleecewife, you are busy.
I am spinning coloured Ryeland fleece. Gosh there is a lot in one fleece. Not sure what I am going to do with it when finished but I have a nice book of crochet Aran jumpers so maybe one of those.
The various coloured wool that I dyed myself is currently being knitted into a fairisle tanktop. Its looking nice but I am not a very quick knitter. 
As a change I have just made some lemon lip balm from our own beeswax. I am very pleased with it so friends and family will all get a small pot (very small) in with their christmas presents.
I am going on a one day felting course at the end of next month so will probably dye some of the Castlemilk fleece I got from Tizaala to felt.
Sally

[Hermit]

I have several projects on the go, only small projects as I dont have a lot of patience . I dont knit, I can but the needles are too ' in the way' for me so I crochet. I love to do Irish lace crochet on fine needles and with fine cotton. I am crocheting beaded jug covers at the moment which I sell and I am just about to start on xmas cards!!! I crochet  snowlakes embellished with tiny beads as card toppers .
Also on the go are blankets, rag rugs , Winter woollies for the hat/glove box and baby goodies. I would love to be able to knit or crochet clothes but I just dont have the patience for all that row counting. 

[in the hills]

2 rag rugs 

[bloomer]

i live in a house full of rag rugs my wife is making them wholesale currently ready for the smallholder and growers show at the end of the month...


i am supposed to be making a pile more of the 20mm crochet hooks for her to use to teach a class with but i'm suffering from c.b.a. syndrome so they'll get done when i'm ready!!!

[colliewoman]

I'm making giant dream catchers from coopers hoops (the metal bands that go round barrels, dunno what their real names are) and reclaimed copper wire
That and I've been making wreaths out of hedgerow stuff

[lachlanandmarcus]

After going on my lime pointing and harling course I have just received delivery of the materials for me to point...well just about everything (barn, steading, indoors, outdoors, ladys chamber....) :-))
So once Himself has got the cement mixer going it will be NHLNo5tastic here for weeks....:-))

[jaykay]

Well, I've just finished a jumper from my handspun merino and silk. I'm spinning some pretty bluey-greeny indie-dyed BFL which was part of a Ravelry member's destash. That's on my new-to-me saxony.

On my Lendrum I'm spinning cornflower blue silk tops I bought at Woolfest.

I'm finishing the second of two socks, commercial yarn, another Rav destash, before I allow myself to try out the Leicester Longwool singles I spun (span, spinned?) and fulled the other day. First time I'll have knitted with fulled singles, am also going to make socks.

And I've done about two rows of a lace wrap, commercial laceweight yarn, also green. First big lace project.

Plus I'm still washing my Shetland fleeces when the weather is drying weather (done 3, 11 to go) and then I shall have to invest in a drum carder to process them.

Unfotunately going  to work is getting in the way of all of the above 

[Brucklay]

I've spent the last year - quite a lot of time and when £'s allow re cladding my goats shed in plank and batton style in larch - which after the first trial we found they didn't eat 


It's L shaped so 3 gables now done and I'm now on the front section (home straight) but I've opted to make every pen have a stable door to the outside to make mucking out a lot easier for me and if a goat has to be in then she can still have natural light etc. 1 stable door done and just ordered larch for another 4 then only 2 more a bit of tidying up and done.


Oh then on to the extention for lambing ............. It'll never end

[SallyintNorth]

. native breed natural 3-colour 3-ply thick work jumper  (some Manx Loaghtan, mainly Moorit and Black Shetland and Grey Falkland, homespun from prepared tops)

. I Learned to Spin work waistcoat; triangles of homespun, all kinds, as I try out new things and  them up!  (Problem is, I keep coming up with yarns I love so much I decide to make a jumper out of it... (see above)

. fibres to contribute to the I Learned to Spin waistcoat include (but are not limited to): Manx Loahgtan, Moorit & Black Shetland, Grey Falkland, Massam, Black Welsh Mountain, white Corriedale, oatmeal and white BFL combed tops; unknown gifted black and grey fibres; our own commercial white fleeces; my own Castlemilk Moorit fleeces; maybe a bit of Heb if I can use it; North Ronaldsay combed top (definitely going to want to use a lot more of this, it gives me goosebumps it's so gorgeous); mixed coloured native breeds fibre; mixed coloured alpaca fibre; Icelandic fleece (from Iceland); Southdown fleece; Jacob fleece

. Rainbow Corriedale combed tops ....  a shawl?  a waiscoat?  So many ideas...  But it's calling me to spin the rest of it! 

. Fermented Suint Bath - all my fleeces are to be washed this way, initially.  I have the plastic dustbin full of rainwater, now just to trim up a fleece (probably the Jacob if it's greasy enough, otherwise one of our own) to prime the bath.

. pattern for foxhound jumper, and black, white and tan homespun yarns to do the pattern in - done    (Ma's making the jumper for BH, all but the foxhound in commercial yarn)

. socks  for myself; first one done (commercial yarns) except I can't now see the stitches in the toe to sew it up and release the needles to  the second!  (Must get on with this one)

[plumseverywhere]

A citrus shaving soap, a pink knitted cardigan for my 7 year old and a cross stitch Gypsy Vardo. Not all at the same time, but almost.

[Bionic]

Plums, what is a Gypsy Vardo?
Sally

[plumseverywhere]

Its the bow top caravan/wagons. The old fashioned, beautifully decorated Romany type. I was meant to spend my 10th Wedding anniversary in one back in March but the anniversary got cancelled    I love them

[Lesley Silvester]

How does an anniverary get cancelled?  Mind you, ours more or less did this year as we were rowing.      We had a card from friends or it would have been totally ignored until the evening when we'd made up.
 
  wise, I am still doing extreme knitting but haven't done any for ages as I spend most of my day on the sofa.  The arthritis or whatever I am suffering from means I can't sit upright for very long and I find knitting is impossible on the sofa because the back gets in the way.  I want to get one of those reclining chairs that also rise up to help you stand.  Then I'll be back to the    big time.  It'll be something to while away the hours.

[plumseverywhere]

I took on three one-day old lambs for bottle feeding which meant we were tied to the house. Never mind, the caravan will wait for another anniversary. We spend 364 days of the year rowing so surprised the anniversary's never been cancelled before