Friday night, the activities were:
- Finished the hand sewing on five knitting project bags
- Started a shawl with my handspun, Nurmilintu
- Spinning on the wool/flax blend.
Saturday, the line up was:
- Organizing the craft room
- trip to Ikea for hubby's kite room and a fold up drying rack
- washed, dried (on the new rack) and steam pressed 12 eco-dyed scarves
- Knit on Nurmilintu
- Scoured and mordanted six silk infinity scarves for future dyeing.
- Scoured and mordanted 224 grams of Shetland roving
- Blocking three spa clothes and a cowl
- Gathering 660 grams of Queen's Anne's Lace along a roadside near our home
- Gathering 30 grams of Russian Sage blossoms from the front yard
- Trip to Wally, Big Lots and TJ Maxx for new dye pots
- The usual laundry, cooking and going to gas up the car.
- Straightening my office, shredding files from 2011, 2012 and 2013.
- Spinning for an hour or so on the wool/flax blend.
- Bundling and steaming 4 bundles of eco-dyed scarves, this involved gathering hibiscus, rose and eucalyptus from my dye garden.
- Steaming the Queen Anne's lace and Russian Sage to dye the roving.
- Completed July travel report.
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