Love Your Blog: Beginnings
Beginnings is a fun theme. I pondered writing about the start of the blog. The start of my crafty adventures. But instead I decided to focus on a new crafty adventure. A new project I cast on Saturday.
I’ve been getting new spindles lately, and with each new spindle I would have a test bit of fiber to spin. So I started building quite the collection of mini skeins and I started to wonder what to do with all.
As much as i love the look of it the Beekeeper’s quilt was out, I would make a dozen puffs , run out of fiberfill and have a half finished puff on the needles for the next two years, never remember to buy fiberfill until after I left the craft store. And then there is actually connecting all the puffs into a blanket. It would be a very tiny cat friendly blanket.
I looked at mini skin projects, shawls, small toys, scarves, blankets other than the quilt. I started looking at other things people were doing with scraps and it was instagram that came through with the memory blanket. A few people I am following are working on it and some even working on a square a day. I liked that it was worked attaching square to square, and that there was no need to keep things matching or have a plan when one first starts. I have no plan. I have yarn.
I wound all my mini skeins into center pull balls, and decided to start with a square of handspun. I also purchased the Avengers Mini Skeins from Gnome Acres as my last bit of motivation to get started. I randomly grabbed a handful of skeins before heading off to LOTR in Concert at Lincoln Center on Sunday.
Two squares so far, mostly worked in the dark during Return of the King. I look forward to see how this will grow, but for now its an adventure in spinning, knitting, and keeping track of scraps. A new adventure for the next few months…years…time period yet to be determined.
