Cheklov's Stuff

SO it's yarn crawl time, baby. I'm literally just gonna show off my loot from the 2020 Rose City Yarn Crawl . We'll go in loot acquisition order and everything. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Store One: Fiber Rhythm Craft and Design  (3/5/20) Loot: 4oz of Malabrigo Nube roving in Piedras and 3 d20 buttons Comments: We went on Thursday to this one, because in all honesty this might be the store I hate getting to the most, and it's usually the one I buy the least at. HOWEVER there was the Plumb Deluxe pop up going this night, and my roommate is a tea addict. So yeah she was the big spender at this location - I think she actually signed up with their tea of the month club, which, like, good on you, you shameless fucking addict. <3 I usually stock up on my d20 buttons and get nothing else, but I have a problem, and that problem is named Malabrigo. I just fell in love with this particular bundle of roving and said "Ah, fuck it." It's bet...

So I've still been making rolags. But I've eventually got to do something with them. The problem is... I am really bad at drop spindle. I'd need a third hand to actually be comfortable doing it, and that's just not something I've quite figured out how to grow yet. But I'm also being really shitty about getting my spinning wheel out of the box, finished and learning how to use it. Recently, I won a 3D printed turkish spindle from the crafting thread I've mentioned in a previous post; I LOVE IT. However, loving it does not in fact make me any better at spinning, it turns out it just makes me more frustrated that I can't produce a nice even single. I've been trying to practice with some rolags that turned out sub-par, colorwise, and so far it's just...a big ole chunky mess. And that's mostly intentional; I'm more focused on trying to get the motions back before I start trying to reclaim any pitiful skills that ...

So I've been buying things I honestly probably should not? But I did anyway because I am an adult and fully capable of making whatever poor life choices I want. And if that means I'm buying a whole bunch of yarn for my looms and fabric I want but don't need and a goddamn pound of mill ends to play with on my blending board then you bet your ass that's what I'm going to do. These came over the course of the better part of the weekend, and will be addressed in the order they came. (I could have done these all on their own posts...but nah.) June 27, 2019 - Knit Picks I already knew what was in this one, obviously, as I had, you know, specifically ordered it. You'd think that would make unboxing it not all that exciting but you would be WRONG. That beautiful sack of goodies! So yeah, many skeins of yarn for my loom, and a bunch of roving for playing with. The red is for Kira, but the rest is miiiiiine. The Tidepool Heather (the tealish...