Saturday, January 10, was the Eleventh Annual Orlando Distaff Day. I’ve known about the event for the last 5 or 6 years, but have always had a conflict and been unable to attend. This year, not only did I attend, I also served on the planning committee. I had an absolutely wonderful time at this event!
BreedSpin2015
Breed Specific Fiber Inventory
Yesterday, I started updating my fiber stash on Ravelry. I didn’t finish because I ran out of sunlight for taking pictures. I did, however, make a handwritten list of all the fibers I have so that I could take it with me to Distaff Day. Here’s the list! (Note: This is not a list of all the fiber I have; it is only the breed specific fibers and does not include blends).
2015 Goals and Plans
I do not set crafting resolutions. To me, the word “resolution” implies doing something drastically different than you had been doing before. I’ve been a fiber crafter for a long time and that is not going to change. Instead, I set goals and make plans. Goals differ from resolutions in that goals are smaller, concrete, and incremental. I already have a base of fiber crafting skills and I want to build on those skills. There’s many things I have never done, especially with crochet, spinning, weaving, and dyeing as these are the skills that I have only acquired in the last two years. Although I’ve been knitting for 20+ years, I spent many of those years knitting the kinds of projects where gauge is nearly irrelevant and so the list of things I have never done with knitting is longer than you might expect. I’m starting out the year by picking one or two skills to work on for each of the fiber crafts.