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Ace, reader, knitter, crocheter, spinner, beginning weaver

Soon be be poncho, currently a mess of long starting chain with some double crochets started (dark blue yarn on a rainbow striped bag)
A red and yellow d4 with gold numbers, 2 is facing up
The same flower and yarn, but with six more friends
A small purple crochet flower sits next to a rainbow skein of yarn
From left to right: two rainbow mini skeins speckled with black; a rainbow gradient; two black skeins; a yellow/orange/red/dark red gradient
Left, gear spindle with green/white/brown yarn, the spindle is about a third full. Right, singles of the same fiber on a small electric eel wheel. Center, pink and white singles being plyed on a spindle, lurking in the back a finished skittles fiber turtle. Send help, that’s not even all my spinning projects
Shawl progress! About an inch and a half of shawl in black yarn on the needles, sitting on the book the pattern is from, The Fellowship of the Knits, the lacy parts on the ends is hard to see with it scrunched up
Blue/purple fiber being spun into a thin single on a cross arm spindle
The Eye Cowl, orange and red eyes on black background
The eye cowl, in red and oranges on black.
The eye cowl, red and orange eyes on black background
Rainbow speckled fiber singles on a cross arm spindle, the first turtle is off the spindle and in a yarn bowl for safe keeping
Handspun yarn singles on a top whorl gear spindle, there’s only a couple of ounces on the spindle but it takes forever when you don’t pick it up and actually work on it, turns out
A blue and silver woven belt with two D rings sewn on one end
The eye cowl, red and orange eyes on black
Two finished sock, one blue one purple, the lighting is horrible please take my word
The blue sock is separate now and the toe is grafted, the purple sock is waiting to be done
The same sock, the stitches are now on four parallel needles, the middle two have the blue and the outer two have the purple
Double knit socks on the needle, the outer one in purple, the inner one in blue, done to the toes and just needs grafting
The beginnings of a blue and white belt, the woven part is attached to a belt around my waist, the warp goes through a small rigid heddle and attaches to a clip on a bag on the other end of the couch
A white loosely woven scarf fresh off the loom, draped over the back of a chair
Travel socks, white with blue green and gray bits, separated by a blue stripe and a gray stripe. The cuff, leg, and heel is done, the foot is in progress
A small section of woven band in light blue and silver with a small stripe of dark blue. The heddle and shuttle are also visible along with the bright red stoorstalka band lock
About ten inches of weaving on six weaving sticks, with the rest of the warp flung off to the side
Six sticks that sort of resemble dpns, except only one end is pointed and the other is flat and has holes for the warp yarn that’s attached at the bottom. There’s a couple inches of weft on the sticks, both the warp and weft is white
Travel socks, mostly vanilla white socks with blue, green and gray speckles with a small gray and blue stripe separating sections
Two socks, one blue one purple, on one set of double pointed needles, the cuffs, legs and heels are done, the blue one is pulled out showing how they match
Side view of a short gray sock, it is very sock shaped but the fit was never quite right
The Eye Cowl (by Nicole Coutts) is about 3 inches now, orange and red eyes on black
Two socks in progress double knit on the same needle, there’s about a half inch of ribbing on both, one purple and one blue. The blue half has been pulled up to show how it separates
A white sock with random blue, gray, and green spots on a 9 inch circular sitting in a knitting bag with chibi Batgirl, Wonder Woman and Supergirl and their respective emblems scattered on it
Two socks on the same double pointed needles, one blue and one purple. One set of needles has the first row on it and as far as I can see they’re two separate pieces
The Eye Cowl by Tanis Gray, red and orange eyes on black
A stack of finished scrubby dishcloths- 5 blue and white, 5 yellow, 5 black and white, 2 cool mint striped, 1 purple and white, 2 red, green, and white
The start of two at a time socks on one set of double pointed needles. One set of stitches is blue, one is purple. This is deeply unnecessary but we’re doing it anyway
A stack of scrubby dishcloths in blue and white, yellow, black and white, and blue/green/silver/white striped. A black and white one is on the needles, maybe a fourth of the way done
The Eye Cowl, the first row of eyes is done, oranges and red on black
Two striped scrubby dishcloths, both in the cool mint colorway, one is complete the other is about a third of the way done
Top: blue/mint green/silver/white striped dishcloth, nearly done. Bottom right: cross arm spindle with taste the rainbow fiber that’s coming out as a very colorful tweed, it’s getting pretty full. Bottom left: one ring cowl in black, oranges and red but it’s too short to see anything but the floats and the ton of stitch markers in it right now
The beginnings of a cast on for The Eye Cowl out of The Fellowship of the Knits by Tania Gray, below the cast on is the picture of a finished version, red orange eyes on black
A stack of scrubby washcloths on my leg, 5 blue and white, 4 yellow, 4 black and white, with one on the needles, only a row or two is done
Blue and white scrubby cloth, the accidental pooling of the colors left a sort of argyle pattern on the top two thirds
Left, a blue and white scrubby dishcloth, ends all over the place. Right, tonal teal sock done except for grafting
Tonal teal lace sock, the leg is done and the toe is on double pointed needles now, ready for the decreases
Cream or light yellow wool, I can’t tell which in this light, on a gear top whorl spindle in a bag for holding spindles
A gear spindle with green, brown and cream chain plyed yarn and cream singles below the chain ply
An electric eel wheel 6 sitting on a stack of books (Terrier by Tamora Pierce and a Batman comic based on the 90s animated series). The bobbin is about half full of tonal blue singles, that I’ll ply back on itself
A blue cross arm spindle next to two balls of corriedale fiber, all light gray. The ball closest to the spindle on the left is the one I’m working from and it’s smaller than the right one but not by very much
Taste the rainbow singles on a light blue cross arm spindle, laying next to the fiber, I started with 8oz and it’s not gone down very much yet
Top, three scrubby washcloths stacked up, two black/gray/white, one yellow. Middle, teal lace socks done about halfway through the foot. Bottom, striped travel socks, teal, dark purple, light blue and dark blue, done with the toes grafted but some ends to weave in
The first single of handspun yarn, taste the rainbow colorway on a blue 3D printed cross arm spindle from Snyder spindles
Cream and dark blue-gray striped textured shawl starting with cream, five completed stripes so far with the next blue-gray a row and a half in progress
Nearly completed striped socks, two DPNs holding the last handful of stitches until I reunite with a yarn needle
Close up of a textured crochet shawl, the last cream stripe is finished and the next blue-gray one is just started
Matching striped socks, only one toe is left
Light gray correidale wool spun very thin on a light blue 3D printed cross arm spindle
Tonal teal socks, with a lacy pattern on the leg and top of the foot, the heels are finished on both
Tonal teal knitted socks in a lace pattern, one is through the heel, the other is a few repeats into the leg
Close up of a textured crochet shawl in cream and blue gray yarn