I enjoy seeing the support lines. It takes a lot to feed, gear up, clothe, and mend for warrior-waifus

Feet up on a footstool with a wooden yarn bowl holding vegetation matter on the right from a fleece on the left.

Hand picking my way through some Corriedale-Merino cross fleece.

A grid showing a list of goals for the year, some of which are already in progress.

I didn't get a bingo last year, but I had some fun making a bingo sheet.

The Cattens are confused and meowing at me because I'm not at work in the office. They don't get holidays or weekends very well.

Happy New Year folks.

One Ikea Billy book case shelf of fabric yardage and trim wrapped into mini bolts on standard Comic book boards contrasted with the shelf below stuffed haphazardly.

A box of 200 standard Comic book boards and a drawer full of cabbage and fat quarters.

A fold up table with a cutting mat, straight edge, rotary cutter, and a container of plastic alligator clips. A plastic bin is filled with off cut fabrics, and some neatly folded mini bolts are also on the table.

Taming my fabric hoard yesterday with comic book boards, plastic alligator clips, and some patience. Still a lot to go.

Polwarth & Silk Spinning Fiber The Polwarth sheep was created by adding Lincoln long wool to the Merino gene pool. The result is slightly longer staple length and still next-to-the-skin softness. The added silk means more strength ...

Skyloom weaver's is where I got the polworth & silk top/roving. It was so much fun to spin. Colorway: Red Moon
Polwarth & Silk Spinning Fiber – Sky Loom Weavers share.google/eTe3fgEUiJlR...

Nine untwisted hanks of handspun yarn with samples ranging from the browns of a double coated Shetland, to a gray Churro, through a mystery blue and purple, a pink-purple-blue-green Leister Longwool, and a pink and purple Polworth and silk blend.

My nine handspun skeins from my first year of spinning that made weight to enter at the Texas Fleece and Fiber Festival.

A left hand holds the Front side of a yarn skein label stating "Aracania Yarns Huasco Sock Prism Paints Hand-painted Superwash Wool Blend"

A left hand holding the backside of a yarn label. A short synopsis is 75% Superwash Wool, 25% Polymide 3.52oz/100g 433yds/396m. The colorway name shown is "Hologram"

The sock yarn I'm knitting is Araucania Yarns Huasco Sock Prism Paints in "Hologram" which is UV reactive.

The top end of a sock in progress with diagonal striping in yellow, pink, and blue on gray.

The top end of a sock in progress with diagonal striping in yellow, pink, and blue on gray.

Starting to look like the top of a sock. I can see why second sock syndrome is a thing. I like how the colors are repeating.

A bingo card made in Excel Sheets that shows AllAroundArtisan's 2025 Resolution Bingo Sheet progress.

Some progress... It looks like my best bet is to clean my craft office room and sew my medieval pants before the end of the year.

Uv reactive sock yarn rests on a tabletop swift.

The beginnings of a sock ribbing on circular needles.

Hopefully, this will become socks. I am still working on my bingo card.

A brand new tension peg, washers, and knob installed on a homemade inkle loom.

An inkle loom with warp in shades of natural browns running through printed tablet or cards. The first few turns or picks of the card deck have been worked.

Diva, the calico cat, has decided to help with card weaving by providing a large yawn.

A brown and white belt of tablet woven wool with fringed ends.

Fixed the tension rod on the rescued inkle/card loom. I worked a Ladoga pattern band in commercial 100% wool yarn, and I'm super pleased. Some of the posts are wonky, but they work.

A mature grey cat is curled up in a fold of a curtain, watching rain fall outside. She is wearing a dark purple knitted cowl with a light purple squirrel motif.

It is raining. I'm gonna go make a nice cup of tea about it and survey my yard as it gets watered with Zula.

Very glad I got some mowing done yesterday.

She can take that off anytime she wants. She just doesn't like trying to squeeze under the door with it on.

4 skeins of brown Shetland, 1 skein gray Navajo Churro, 1 mini skein grey/red/white started from before Tour de Fleece, but single finished and plied, 1 skein brown mystery fiber that might be Alpaca/Llama, and a Pink, purple, blue and green fractal spin in Leister Longwool.

Holding a skein of pink, purple, blue and green fractal spun Leister longwool skein

Singles spun on a Lendrum single treadle spinning wheel in green, blue, purple, and pink Leister Longwool

Diva, a young calico cat, wrestles with two skeins of brown Shetland homespun yarn.

Tour de Fleece Day 23: I did it! All but one of these skeins were started and finished during this year's run. 8 skeins/mini skeins. I just sat down from wet finishing them + 2 more skeins from stash. Last spin came out of the food dye Leister Longwool in my first fractal. Diva catten is QA.

A young dilute calico cat curled up on a light brown sheepskin with an unusual spindle full of a rich brown mystery fiber spun singles yarn.

Tour de Fleece Day 22: I finished spinning the single and plying the unknown fiber. I think this spindle might need a notch cut to keep the cop from unwinding when spinning singles.
Ms. Maia the catten is my lovely assistant showing off the completed singles.

A handful of unknown brown fiber and an unusual spindle with a fairly food sized cop of spun singles yarn rest on a red and white canvas drop cloth.

Toure de Fleece Day 21: I think I am figuring out this spindle. Starting to run low on the mystery fiber.

A spindle that slightly resembles a honey dipper rests on a batt of unknown brown fiber that has a few hairs in it. The batt and spindle rest on a carpet.

Tour de Fleece Day 20: more spinning of the unknown fiber on the experimental spindle. This is some slippery fiber. It has some guard hairs, so I wonder if it is Alpaca or Llama?

A skein of two plied handspun gray Navajo Churro wool.

A folding table has a wooden bowl of pink dyed Leister Longwool locks, a pile of combing waste, a wool comb sitting on the table and combed wool on a comb that is clamped to the table.

Tour de Fleece Day 18: The Navajo Churro is plied, and I continued combing more of the food coloring dyed Leister longwool.

I have so many skeins that need a bath!

An unevenly filled bobbin of gray Navajo Churro wool.

An evenly filled bobbin of gray Navajo Churro wool.

Diva an orange and black calico cat inspects the orifice of the Lendrum spinning wheel.

Toure de Fleece Day 17: I finished my Navajo Churro single spins with a little "Help" from Diva. I was too focused on the roving to fill the second bobbin very evenly. I see a very big plying bracelet in my future.

An unevenly wound bobbin of gray Navajo Churro spun singles.

Combing tools and an ounce of Candy Green Leister Longwool locks on a folding tray. A Calico cat is under the table looking for wool to steal.

Green Leister longwool locks lashed onto a comb

A bump of green apple candy colored combed top of Leister longwool on a table with a bowl of combing waste and the combs used to create it.

Tour de Fleece Day 16: Cutting it close tonight, but I put some more yrds on the bobbin for my Navajo Churro spin. Combed 1 oz dyed yesterday into forbidden cotton candy.

Stuff for embroidery stand & bigger inkle loom repairs was acquired. Need energy for time with the drill press & miter saw.

A pot full of individually dying wool in ziploc bags with citric acid and food coloring

Candy colored Leister wool in grape, blue raspberry, cherry, and green apple colors.

Tour de Fleece Day 15: I got together with my fiber friend and we did boil in bag dying with food colors and citric acid. Then we went to our local yarn store for their spinning social. I picked up some yarn for card weaving and a reed for the Bernat loom too.

A Turkish spindle with plied yarn rest on folding table. There is a dilute calico cat resting on a red carpet out of focus in the background.

Tour de Fleece Day 14: I finished plying the single from my Turkish Spindle. Tomorrow is gonna be sort of a challenge day for me. Congrats on two weeks folks.

Yarn being plied on a Turkish spindle from a pull skein ball of singles that was created on the same spindle.

Tour de Fleece Day 13: Today, I started plying my tiny yarn on the turkish spindle.

A Turkish spindle with gray and pinkish thread singles sits on a table with a patterned carpet in the background.

Tour de Fleece Day 12: Simply more thread singles. I think my turtle is getting too heavy, so I might start plying it up.

Scoured Leister wool in a Landry drying bag.

A string maps the longest path I have figured out on my lunchbox inkle loom pegs.

A string maps out the longest path I have figured out so far on my bigger inkle loom I got from my local creative reuse store. The tension peg looks a little sketchy and needs replaced or repaired.

Tour de Fleece Day 11: Today is a rest day, but I put a couple more yards onto my turkish spindle. I also checked on how well the Leister Longwool is drying. Time was also spent figuring out the best paths for card woven bands and repairs needed on my Inkle looms.

Inkle loom pegs with tiny feline tooth impressions.

Tiny feline tooth impressions on a Lendrum spinning wheel spoke.

So Princess Jehnna likes some of my fiber tools a little much... I wonder if she is part teething puppy... Most of her damage was done when she was pregnant past year with the 4 surprise kittens.

I guess my tools have some character now.

Thread-like wool single spun on a Turkish spindle at the park. The combed top being spun is in colors of red, green, black, and white.

Egyptian Geese grazing in a ditch at the park.

Tour de Fleece Day 10: Today was a challenge day so we decided to go spindle spin at the park. I'm still making more thread for now.

I'm also working on scouring the Leister tonight.

Spun thread on a Turkish spindle with some red, gray, white, and black combed top.

Tour de Fleece Day 9: I did technically spin today because I was up very late watching anime. I also changed the water my Leister longwool is soaking in and made a Gulf Coast Native batt into roving with my diz.

A slightly felted strip of combed top in red, orange, black, gray, and white being spun into thread on a Turkish spindle.

A plastic shelf supports 2 pounds of Leister longwool raw fleece.

Tour de Fleece Day 8: Now for something completely different, back to my never-ending thread on a Turkish spindle. My missing package came in last night, and 2lbs of leister are cold soaking.

Two skeins of brown Shetland yarn.

Zula, a gray cat, sits on a red and pink knit blanket with a bobbin of brown singles yarn.

Zula, a gray cat, sits on her owner's left thigh while the right foot powers the treadle of a Lendrum single treadle wheel.

Tour de Fleece Day 7: Zula helped me out while I finished spinning the last of Cocoa's Fall 2024 fleece.

Good thing I have more goodies to be spinning, including some Leister Longwool, Gulf Coast native and Navaho Churro in the stash.