Sewing:
Recently I purchased a bunch of fabric to make some simple skirts and tops due to the fact I hate today's clothing not fitting me right. It's either too loose in one area and too tight in another. Ever since having the C-Section, I really hate having anything tight around my belly and today's trend is form fitting shirts. So I bought some fabric with grand plans of creating some nice clothing that would fit me just right. First I start with the simple wrap skirt with some lovely fabric that I should have thought twice about or at least have had my mother there letting me know of the evil of this type of fabric. It is slick stuff and moves underneath the pressure foot so it's been a slight pain to sew. Now of what I have been able to sew up, I've been running into the same issue I've been having with this machine: Tension. After sitting at the machine for 35 minutes getting it fixed from the change out in thread, I finally got the tension right on the stitch. I'm now at the point in joining the three pieces of the skirt together when I hear a GRRR....PLUNKKKKK! The tension is back off again and I need to get my tech support (aka: my Mother) up here to fix it.
The fabric on the right is a knitting bag for Carey waiting in line next the the skirt that may never get done due to me taking a sledge hammer to the machine on the left.Spinning:
This area has seen much improvement and advances. Recently on one of my no work on Friday's, Carey and I got together for a spinning day. She worked on her current projects while I worked on mine and we had a great time. Back in February I dyed up about 8 oz. of wool I had purchase on a trip to Clinton Mo. using nothing more than Cherry, Grape Kool-Aid and the grill.
Still smells like Kool Aid after all these months and now it looks like this in a 3-ply next to the yummy Alpaca fiber that I also have been working on. I think there was 8 oz. of alpaca fiber that I did that came out in an DK/Aran weight. Very soft and warm stuff.
I have another bobbin that is full and can be plyed up any time. I still have about half of the wool fiber still left to do. Looks like I need another spinning Friday with Carey again, I got a lot of spinning done that day.Knitting:
Been trying to finish up on some UFO's (Unfinished Objects, it's geek talk for craft people) so not much has been done or started. Still working on the Cardi I started a while ago and due to a mistake in my increases I was stopped in my progress. Apparently one of the increases for the sleeves got off and started shifting to the left of the raglan seam, so I basically had 3 seams going straight and 1 out in left field. I cried and started ripping out about 3 inches of work. Usually this wouldn't have been a big deal but this cardi is being knitted from the top down and it was a lot of stitches that I had to take out and redo. So I'm now to the point to where I was and have taken the stitches off the needles for some measurements. Once I put it on, I'll know if I need to keep going with the increases or if I can move on to the next step.
