Got a new design on the pillow 🥰 My cousin commissioned a lace masquerade mask from me for Halloween, and this is a proof of concept for that mask. Gotta make sure the leaves are leafy!

New lace on the pillow for the boyfriend's mum 🥰 Used the "spider and line" ground from the Jo Edkins site to make the motif in the center. The edging is @galiciabee.bsky.social's edging for the Mille Arachne bookmark! Her patterns are stunning! Check her out on YouTube too, she's a great teacher!

Oof I gotta get back in the habit of posting here. The issues is my brain is occupied fully by bobbin lace 🤣 My Love says it looks like I'm doing brain surgery. As always, descriptions and more deets in the alt-text!

Hooked back on shuttle tatting, thanks to the new diy celt-ish shuttle! Making some holiday/thank you gifts. Shaped like a celtic tatting shuttle, but way wider than the ones I've seen. Gotta love wood glue, popsicle sticks, and various nail files!

Celebrated my bday with my mum, brother, aunt, and boyfriend yesterday! Got to tour the Taza factory, then had a lovely dinner at mum's. Little brother is the best, and printed me the Good & Basic Charkha parts 😍 gonna put it together soon once we get the base and spindles! Xtra info in alt text

Hit up my local Filipino Grocery today! got some incredible staples. Plus I have to go back soon, those angels have a kitchen in there 😍 I know nothing of Asian brands, but I doubt they'd hate me learning by trial and error 🤣 Got some of the big tapioca boiling right now for bubble tea tomorrow 🥰

Keep forgetting to post, too busy tinkering! My love's father found his old fly reel and let me borrow it for the diy charkha 🥰 so the creature got an update!

So while my Mum has been offering to get me a spinning wheel for the holidays... That would just rob me of the joy of getting fed up and making my own? (No, I'm super grateful forreal, she's the best) I'm so thankful to all the people online who have posted diy charkha instructions. Y'all rock.

Rare non-fiber post 🥰 I was absolutely drooling over the grill today. Got stuff going for dinner and also some stuff to make husbando-prime some hot sauce 😍 More info in the alt-text, as is tradition 😘

Ack, been quiet for a while cuz I'm working on a project I can't share. It's for my Mum, and she follows all my socials 🥰 Have some more Shetland progress ❤️ perfect weather to finish off the first 50g of those lovely stuff.

Rare non-fiber-arts post: Anyone have any tips for keeping groundhogs away from my plants? We have them in pots up on an elevated space, but the bastards figured out how to get up there. Any success stories from hot pepper tea? (1/2) #gardening #groundhog

Took a little TDF break to spin up the teeny pink skein from some recycled yarn bits 🥰 Now I'm started on the lemon lime soda blend that I dyed myself. Corriedale is such a joy to spin 😍

First finished skein of my first TDF 🥰 thanks to my lovely mum, it was even some Shetland from NH 😍 such a perfect fiber for my first TDF skein ever ❤️ Finished measurements: 85yds to just under an ounce (87m/25g for my metric cuties). A regular amount of this would be 340yd/348m per 4oz/100g.

Yo #TourdeFleece2025 got me actually lookin forward to plying 🤣 I'm not competing, but I LOVE stats 😍 Shetland ply trucking along well 🥰 can't wait to measure it!

Day 8 progress 🥰 almost done with this 25g ball of roving. I have 3 more of the Shetland (100g total). May just ply this up as a mini-skein and then break into my lemon-lime corriedale 😍 Frau Halle, save me! I need a spinning wheel so bad 😭

Back home! The spinning has been slow but steady! I have no goals except to try and do one full wrap of the copp (cop?) a day. That makes it faster every day by my math 🤣

Tour de fleece Day 1 progress 🥰 I'm loving the long staple length on this Shetland 😍 perfect for my first TDF! Plus me and my love have been catsitting, so the lovely Mr. Kingston is modeling ❤️

Stickers by Antony Ho. linktr.ee/antonyho #JapanExpo2025

Less of a chance the recipient will see it here, and I'm too proud of myself to not post it 🤣 A tatted lace bookmark for my mum, as a thank you for the recent weekend getaway 🥰 Now to wet block this bad boy!

Well, I finally did it! Got too excited to ply the alpaca fractal and gave myself a sore arm 🤣 Bastard woke me up this morning. I have weeding to do on Sunday, so I'm taking a crafting break 😭 Remember kids, stretch, and PACE YOURSELVES #fiberarts #handspinning #spindlespinning

Natural Alpaca Fractal spun! I'm probably gonna start plying it today because wtf she's already so gorgeous 😭😍

Natural alpaca fractal is slow going, especially since my attention has to be shared with Shuttle Tatting and Balatro 🤣 Just gotta finish before TDFleece, so that my spindle is free for ✨️Shetland✨️ #fiberarts #spinnersofbluesky #handspinning #tatting #Balatro

I'm so hype for Tour de Fleece this year! It'll be my first time, so I'm gonna be doing it solo. Plus I only have a tiny drop spindle, so getting my numbers in will take a HOT minute 🤣 don't wanna slow down any lovely group. July 5 - 27! Mark your calenders! #fiberarts

uggh handspinning is crazy you can literally use garbage to do it and it works. a stick and a round lump of something. a couple twigs crisscrossed. extremely human activity

The culmination of my turmeric & food color dyed corriedale! I'm calling it Lemon Lime Soda 🥰 I don't sell anything, I just like naming stuff 🤣

Well I WAS gonna blend that Shetland I got with the dark brown alpaca... The staple length got me. The Shetland is TWICE THE LENGTH of the alpaca 🤣 I don't have a drum carder, so jokes on me! I'm spinning them by themselves! #fiberarts #spinnersofbluesky

New craft, who dis? Shuttle tatting is gonna take over my life 🥰 Peep the DIY shuttle. I made it out of an old tupperware lid. I refuse to pay to test a new craft before I know I love it. If I love it with my bad shuttle, I'll really love it w/ a good one.

Oops more turmeric dyeing cuz I'm obsessed with the yellows I get 🥰 Plus I wanna prep some fun colors for tour de fleece, and later holiday gift making.

Latter 2 colors of the natural alpaca fractal. I had a couple alpacas for a while growing up, and they were these colors 😭 I miss those sweet boys.

First color change on the natural alpaca fractal 😍 I'm not sure I can overstate how buttery smooth this stuff is. Its almost begging to be laceweight! Living the Dream Alpaca Farm is once again blowing my mind 🥰

And with that, the alpaca gradient fauxlags are done! Also, I put a little plastic bit under the spindle so my singles wouldn't barf into the divot there. Makes it easier to test this wrapping orientation! I think o could get way more on this thing now, lol.

Some very fancy goodies my mum spoiled me with 😍 The alpaca is so crazy soft, and the Shetland is a little coarser, but like beautifully smooth to the touch. Might blend the Shetland and that big ball of alpaca. I know the little alpaca rovings are gonna be a ✨️fractal✨️ because I have a ✨️problem✨️

Billings Farm & Museum + Living the Dream Alpaca Farm visit photodump 🥰 Some activities during my VT weekend getaway with my mum and younger brother ❤️ Alt text has more detail, as usual!

Finishing up the last bobbin of my alpaca blend rolags on a little weekend getaway with my mum and little brother 🥰 up in Vermont, not Nantucket like the mug suggests lol. Plus, some actually good decaf. I still think my mom gets this from a coffee witch of some sort.

Upcycling woes: the yarn I unraveled from that cardigan was still too skinny for the Lotus Duster 🙃 Oh well, starting the largest version of the Midsommarkrans top from Lene Tøsti on ravelry 😍

Sometimes you just gotta uhhhhhhh chart your brain out when you fuck stuff up 🫠 Goofed one of my rolags and now I have to do a ✨️pattern✨️

Y'ALL They came out so pretty 😍 Saving these for my weekend getaway later this month ❤️

Whew! With the blue merino/bamboo yarn turned into roving, it's time to get my roll on! Excited to make fauxlags* out of this little group of colors 🥰

All alpaca colors blended with corriedale 💕 now to blend the colors for some gradient rolags! Need just a little more to get this all to 100g, so I'll probably break back into the sapphire merino/bamboo yarn scraps I have for some fun tweedy bits.

Working up a new blend! Using up the rest of the alpaca! Fleshing it out with some of my black bean dued corriedale. Doing about a 70% alpaca blend to hopefully get this next-to-skin soft. Blending up a total of like 96g, and I have two shades of purple as well. I'm thinking gradient rolags 😍

It's warm as all get out today, and my mother-in-law got some limes and lemons, so it's beverage time! Made some concentrated citrus-ade, and put it in a shaky bottle to add to drinks! It made this seltzer so much yummier than it already was! Recipe in alt text after photo description!

Green blend is almost done! Last little length is attached and ready to spin! Gotta say, I'm getting pretty good at hands-only fiber prep, but damn is it rough on the fingers lol. Remember to take breaks and do hand stretches, friends 🥰

Blue blend all finished! It's a little more muted in person, more like blue jeans. I also passed it around at Easter and had my family check if it's next to skin soft 🤣 the report was ALMOST. Spinning the other two as roving, instead of from the fold. Let's see if that improves the texture!

Oo that blue blend got DARK in the water! All spun and plied, now to wash and snap! More details in the alt text as always 🥰

Recent crafts 🥰 Started spinning the wool blends! I began by spinning from the fold, but the corriedale has plenty of texture. So roving it is! Plus I started a core crochet basket to use up yarn I hate, and plastic bags!

Ooooo my mum & cousins are whisking me away today to hit up the Fiber Witch Festeval in Salem, MA 🥰 Will definitely take pics of any goodies, and try and find vendor links for my pics ❤️ #fiberarts #witchcraft #yarn #pagan

Blending up the green with its corresponding alpaca! So begins my slow descent into madness, wherein I become very annoying to every alpaca farmer in the tri-state area 🤣 Jkjk y'all work too hard for me to ever consider annoying ya.

Indigo alpaca fiber sample all plied! Just gotta set it, bit that can be done tomorrow! I'm so in love 😍 it's a little more purple than my phone camera is picking up, but it's DEFINITELY that bright. It's also absolutely butter soft.

Taking a break from spinning the indigo to go back to hand blending. On to blue! I have 3 other colors from my Alpaca Roving that I didn't know what to do with. Conveniently, they match my handblended stuff! So in they go!

Spinning up the bright Indigo from ly Living the Dream Alpaca Farm mill-ends packs! It was a tad compressed, but with a little fluffing, it's drafting like it's barely there 😍