In addition to tallying up and recording all of the pertinent information about my yarn and fabric stashes, I’m trying to finish a bunch of projects that I had started but never finished. I’m not promising to finish them all before I start any new ones, but having a spreadsheet of all of my works in progress and what is required for each is turning out to be a great tool for me.  I finished a few garments that just needed some hemming, cut out several items on my list to make for other folks, and actually started a couple of sewn garments for myself.

I finished the first of my embroidery projects for those wacky Celts.

It’s a helmet drape. Our Samhain is early this year, so this will find a home this weekend. Once one is out there, I know many people will request one of their own. I need to come up with a better way to get the design onto the linen, because my normal methods weren’t catching the details well, and I can’t expect someone who can draw the design to always be on hand when I’m ready to start a new one.

I also made myself a fun little sewing accessory.  It’s a pincushion organizer from a free Sew Mama Sew pattern.

Sorry the pictures are so dark–we had a rainy week.  I picked some well-matched fabrics out of my stash, and used a scrap from a shrunken kilt hose (why is there no singulative for hose?) for the wool felt portion in the middle.   It’s already getting a lot of use, but there are a few things I may change about it.  It likes to slide if it gets heavy, so I may add some sort of non-slip treatment on the underside.  I may also add more weight to the pincushion.  And I may remake the thing entirely, because these fabrics may be a bit too sweet together (and the way I placed them is making me itchy . . . that crazy part is literally true).

I also got back into the swing of things with my woolalong afghan.  Here are the yarns I have in store for squares.  I’ll dye the light natural skeins in one of the colors I’m using for the blanket.  Starting from the top left, these are Roubaix CVM/Romeldale, Thingamastring Columbia/Southdown, Solitude Suffold/Dorset, Elemental Effects natural Shetland, and then the bottom three are two naturally dyed Icelandic skeins from Solitude flanking a dark brown Shetland from Elemental Effects.

I may decide to eliminate the dark brown Shetland, depending on how the pallet evolves.  These are the squares I’ve finished so far.  These first three are in a Cormo/Yak blend I dyed myself.

These are a gorgeous BFL from Laughing Rat.  The orange makes me so happy!  I hope I can dye something similar.

Look how lovely they are together!

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