consumableJoy

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Knitting, spinning, crocheting, eating, watching, reading, listening, living. Plays with dogs. Takes pics.

Welcome to #FinishOrFrogAlong 2025! Open to crafters and makers of all kinds! Anyone with works in progress (WIPs) to finish or mindfully decide to kill. Share what you can, when you can. Pressure-free! Active moderation in September 2025. Continuing the #FinishOrFrogAlong energy into October if you want to! Follow our hashtag for Q&A, polls, and posts from like-minded crafty- and maker-friends! Week 1: About My WIPs • Introduce yourself! What is your craft (or crafts) of choice? • What are your hopes for #FinishOrFrogAlong? Week 2: Killing Projects • How often do you start projects and then decide you don't want to continue? • What prevents you from "killing" projects? What's the closest you've come to finishing a project before deciding just to can it? Week 3: Overcoming Barriers • What are the biggest challenges for you to getting a project over the finish line? • What is the last thing you have to do before you consider a project "finished"? • What are your favorite finishing tools and techniques? Week 4: Finished Objects & New Projects • Show off anything you've finished • What's next in your queue? Why? Tag posts with #FinishOrFrogAlong If you're looking for #FallFinishAlong, you're in the right place. The hashtag was updated to be inclusive of our Southern Hemisphere crafting community!
An image of an Audible detail page for The President’s Brain Is Missing. Store.com original audiobook. By John Scalzi. Narrated by PJ Ochlan
Cranberry colored electric spinning wheel in foreground, “Starling” visible on nameplate. Pile of pink roving on the right hand side, some pink singles wound on. Background left, project bag with a batt of fiber.
I got these batts from Fossil Fibers - pics to follow in the thread. I am thinking of spinning them on supported spindle. They are all Studio Ghibli themed. Which one should I start with? @fiberarts #fiber #fiberarts #spinning #handspinning (1/2) Bacon Burner - Calcifer (purple/orange) 38% Ponyo's Jellyfish Ride (blue/turqoise/pink) 29% Paper Airplane Skies - the Wind Rises (sky s... 33%
Bacon Burner batt ranging from orange to purple
Photo of a supported spindle shaped like a morel mushroom. Made of walnut and maple.
Ladybug spinning wheel from Schacht. Flyer is an autowinder from level wind systems. Fiber is Shaniko from Yarn Jam
Left, supported spindle with a partial cop. Right, rolag with colors ranging from white to pale reds and blues. Spun single gas sane colors but more intense
Espinner with partially filled bobbin of a 2 okay yarn ranging from gray to white with yellow and red bits in it.
Top, e-spinner with a partially filled bobbin with gray 2 ply yarn with colors. Bottom, two supported spindles in a makeshift lazy Kate made out of a cardboard box
A black and white view of the Golden Gate Bridge from one end
Two supported spindles in a makeshift lazy Kate made out of a cardboard box
Tarot set open. Right and too, small box, everybody’s tarot mini social first edition. Butterfly or moth with infinity symbol. 4 cards Visible. 5 of Wands- 5 Creatures of different colors holding branches with leaves. The fool, bird standing on a bump with a leaf coming out of its back. The magician, a multi-limbed creature holding a leaf and hiding behind a table with pentagram and other items and symbols. Connection, two creatures knitting socks from one ball of yarn, hearts in the air above them
Photo of 3 rolags and 2 supported spindles with cops. Rolags vary in color from dark to light grey with highlights of red orange and yellow. Supported spindles have singles wound around in a similar color scheme butl look more gray overall.
Sceeemshot from Etsy of a bowl for a supported spindle to spin in. Wooden base, tall with a silver plate in the bowl portion. Text reads, spindle bowl: spalted worm bitten persimmon with an antique silver plate liner #5 by TheDancingGoats
Rolags with brown, yellow, pink
Photo of two knitted hexagons without any stuffing. Top one is made from shades of white to light pink to darker pink/red. Bottom one is made from yarn with shades of gray / white / yellow / brown / pink
Skein of handspun yarn
Two supported spindles with cops and one cushion with spinning bowl
Left, rolag from Hikari handmade. Middle, straddle creek Tibetan style 2 spindle. Right, straddle creek Tibetan style 1 spindle (new). Cushion with spinning bowl.
Support spindle with a partially wound cop of a thin single
Supported spindle with the start of a cop, singles are very ratty and fuzzy. Pillow with spinning jowl in the center. Top left, air pods case with Sad Potato stickers
Supported spindle with a partial cop attached to rolag. Laying on top of cushion with spinning bowl. Unused portion of rolag top left.
Singles wound off of my supported spindle onto a niddy noddy. Supported spindle on the side along with singles just pulled off the shaft
Photo of a pile of pink roving next to a kravelli supported spindle laying on a bowl. Spindle had a small cop of uneven singles on it
Photo of two supported spindles laying on the floor. Left, spindle on a pillow with a bowl. Spindle has the beginnings of an uneven cop. Left hand of spinner visible holding fiber. Right, second spindle laying with its base in support bowl.
Turkish spindle sitting on a lap with an in progress cop and fiber attached.
Turkish spindle with some single wound on, definitely not a perfect cat’s eye
Musselburgh hat made from handspun - brim folded up
Schacht ladybug spinning wheel from above with a view of a partially filled bobbin. The flyer is the LWS autowinder. Right hand arm has a black piece that holds the yarn and moves up and down as you spin left arm has the battery assembly. Center bottom the on off switch is visible. Uses bobbins that come with the wheel.
Photo of work in progress hat on knitter’s lap. Hat in pink, greys, whites. Mr potato head progress keeper and shark stitch markers background, orange project bag
Box of rolags with multiple colors in each shiny one, with browns, peach, blue, ivory
Knitting in progress - hat from handspun yarn in shades of pink, white, gray. Progress marker near top, pink and white puffer fish.
Two handspun skeins of yarn, larger on left, mini on right. Pink and white and gray
The word 'clue' was originally a variant spelling of 'clew,' meaning "ball of thread or yarn." Our modern sense of clue, "guide to the solution of a mystery," grows out of a motif in myth and folklore, the ball of thread that helps in finding one's way out of a maze.