sally_in_wales
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a crafts-only to do list for the dayhaving managed to sleep for 12 hours straight after getting back from Martin's meat meat, I'm contemplating a busy day of craftwork.
Today, I plan to:
Make a pair of thigh high red woollen stockings (hooray for sock machines)
Make a white linen Roman tunic
Make a green wool Roman palla
Make half a dozen plague rats
Boil up some conker husks and see what colour they dye
Dye some fibre for spinning in a mix of greens and browns
Order some more fibre and some spinning wheel parts
Gareth has been enlisted to help and is down to do some tablet weaving and make a pair of Roman shoes.
That little lot should keep me out of mischief today I think
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Midland Spinner
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Have you got a fair coming up then?
Have a good day.
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sally_in_wales
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just lots of orders mostly
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Midland Spinner
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Good, Kerchingg! (I can't find a money-counting smiley!)
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lettucewoman
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ooh I really want to do crafty things today but got a meeting in Portsmouth this morning with the NHS...and really dont want to find my *smart* clothes cos I won't fit into them 
However when we come back I must:
buy beads
have another go at the awen pendant
make earrings
design earrings to go with necklace
make ear cuff (assuming woodstock still wants one...)
pack small bag of stuff for hospital tomorrow
try not to worry about op tomorrow.. 
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Frewen Feltmaker
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Make Christmas "folk heart strings"
Find some way of trimming Christmas stockings in same theme
Card some wool for stuffing
Make two more Christmas goose birdy ornaments
Sew half a dozen little hearts and stuff with lavender for dammit dolls.
Good thread Sally 
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gz
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I have got the metal plate with a hole in it....ta daaaa!!!!
This afternoon's job with son#1 is mark the frame pieces for a friend to cut and weld this evening, and build a dry brick pillar supporting the flue where it exits the kiln.
Then start sealing all the joints.
Hopefully the tile cutter for floor tiles with diamond tipped blade will be OK to trim the small ex kiln shelf that will be a flue damper.
I need to get the pots biscuited to be ready for the saltfiring in the first half of next month 
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catbaffler
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1. Practice carding!!!
I've finally got hold of a pretty little second-hand Wheel (Ashford Traditional), a pair of hand carders and a lazy kate, along with a couple of bags of fibre!!! All the wood was really thirsty so it's had a couple of coats of beeswax polish (homemade  ) and looks really nice now.
2. Sew in loose ends and block and press a window panel I've just crocheted for my kitchen.
Incidentally Sally, if any of those plague rats are for the order I placed a couple of days ago, I'm not in a huge hurry
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mochyn
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Good idea, this thread.
Finish a sock (sew in ends and hem)
Start second one
Write up pattern
Lemon curd
Bottle damsons (those are sort of craft!)
Tons of routine stuff to do though, and I'm feeling wobbly!
Good luck tomorrow, LW. And congrats on the sleep, Sally!
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sally_in_wales
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oh drat and botheration, I've just knocked my sewing machine off the table and its no longer a happy thing fortunately my old machine still just about works and has just justified my inability to throw it away, but I'm soooooo cross with myself.
Gareth is tinkering with it, but its not looking promising
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mochyn
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Bum.
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wellington womble
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Hmmm, can't think of much craft stuff that I feel enthusiastic about, a miscellaneous list is the best description, I think.
sort out list fibre on ravelry
ring dad
Check bank
update ravelry pics
laundry
get sewing machine serviced/fixed
August invoice
clean kitchen
nag nag nag himself to fix dishwasher
find out where hens are escaping and fix it
cast on for a sleeve and make lots of progress
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alison
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knit button hole row on cardi
render down wax
sort out moulds for wax
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mochyn
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Finish a sock (sew in ends and hem)
Start second one
Write up pattern
Lemon curd 
Bottle damsons (those are sort of craft!)
about to do the sockage.
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Frewen Feltmaker
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I've done a couple of little prototypy christmas folk strings, they aren't coming out too badly.
But I got waylaid by the allotment so I'm rather behind 
I am really sorry to hear about the machine Sally I hope it gets fixed - what sort is it?
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put togther 3 bags of crap to send out.
finish weaving belt
warm loom to weave a bamboo bag
spin some devon longwool
do 6 rows on cap shawl
help mother choose pattern for cotton yarn
make 3 sets of buttons
make into broaches and hair pins
put a few buttons into crpa bags
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Bodrighy
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Loads of orders to get packed and off, some crochet hooks to make, more eggcups, .....I'm not going to get it all done today 
Pete
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mochyn
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Pete: have you ever turned lilac wood? I've come across a reference to lilac wood knitting needles...
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Bodrighy
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| mochyn wrote: | | Pete: have you ever turned lilac wood? I've come across a reference to lilac wood knitting needles... |
Not yet I'm off to collect some buddlea tomorrow though. I'll have a go at most woods, some are really surprising. I should imagine lilac is very sinewy and tough, ideal for needles.
By the way I've finally got a battery for my measuring doodah so have measured the hooks. They are on their way with the boxes
Pete
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marigold
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This morning I beachcombed a small bag of "interesting articles" which may become a mobile or summat - does that count? I also failed to buy some yarn to knit a cardigan (which was fortuitous really, because I forgot to pay and display in the car park and now have a £25 fine to pay )
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| Bodrighy wrote: | | mochyn wrote: | | Pete: have you ever turned lilac wood? I've come across a reference to lilac wood knitting needles... |
Not yet I'm off to collect some buddlea tomorrow though. I'll have a go at most woods, some are really surprising. I should imagine lilac is very sinewy and tough, ideal for needles.
By the way I've finally got a battery for my measuring doodah so have measured the hooks. They are on their way with the boxes
Pete |
i have some chunks of rhododendron and apple here if you want some. cut a few days ago. if you advise me how to pick some bits for you, i'll chuck them in the car
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Bodrighy
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Rhododendron I've not tried but have heard it can have a lovely grain. Apple, any fruit wood is gorgeous. Any wood from roughly 1" dia upwards I can use. Smaller stuff for bobbins, hooks etc, larger for other things. If it's just been cut I'll need to paint the ends as it will crack and split otherwise.
Short answer....OOh yes please thanks
Pete
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i'll grab some for you
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gz
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Brick pillar built, bag walls (to direct flames) almost built- I need to find the face mask as trimming bricks is a dusty hacksaw job. At least I have the hacksaw
Space cleared around the kiln AND tile cutter found.
Progress!!
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mochyn
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Finish a sock (sew in ends and hem)
Start second one
Write up pattern
Lemon curd
Bottle damsons (those are sort of craft!)
All done except the pattern which is now on today's list! Which is:
Write up pattern
Knit sock
Drawing
Ummm.. sure there's more, apart from the everyday stuf...
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Faithmead
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| marigold wrote: | | This morning I beachcombed a small bag of "interesting articles" which may become a mobile or summat - does that count? I also failed to buy some yarn to knit a cardigan (which was fortuitous really, because I forgot to pay and display in the car park and now have a £25 fine to pay ) |
Ooooh Marigold, what a bummer about the parking ticket.
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mochyn
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Write up pattern ONGOING
Knit sock ONGOING
Drawing
I've also bottled about 3l of damson cordial.
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