Week 5: Knitted bunny

This week I'd planned on completing a leatherwork project. I have the pieces cut out, I just need to punch some holes, do some basic stamping, and lace them up. Seems simple.

Except I have mild inflammatory arthritis, and I'd forgotten that my hands hate the leather punch with the fire of a thousand suns. REALLY hate it. I need to put it down after 2-3 holes to let the swelling go down and the pain ease. I don't even usually get much swelling.

So, I whipped up a little bunny from handspun alpaca to put aside for Easter. I used this pattern  and failed to do it justice.

Week 4: Spinning

This week I did some spinning, 100 grams of brown finnish from World of Wool.

It seems I need to do more spinning, I wasn't that happy with my results. It's more even in person than the photo makes it look, but I'm still disappointed with it.

 I also forgot to count the wraps while it was on my niddy noddy, so no idea how long it is. Since I've also forgotten to weigh last week's plant hanger I'm just going to assume that they're exactly the same yardage as each other because that's easier.

It starts...

I've joined up to Raverlry so I figured I should have a blog to compliment my account.

I'm hoping that Ravelry will help me keep my crafts under control, or else at least let me track how things spiralled out of control.

There's a strong chance that TimCat will be a strong feature in both blog and photos, he's just helpful like that. I'm also hoping documenting evidence about how 'helpful' he is will help explain why projects are always behind schedule. That and I randomly get distracted by something else...

At the moment I have 3 projects on the go, and about half a dozen in the 'to do' pile (not counting spinning projects, somehow they seem like a different category altoghether). I'll work at steadily adding the other ones as days go by.