Very productive!

I'm trying to start a lunchtime Stitch 'n' Munch Bunch at work, beginning tomorrow. Anyone who has a small portable project was invited via staff email to bring their lunch and work on it in a loose group in the cafeteria. I used the photo above (nabbed from many featured on Google Images) to attract interest and send the message, hand arts are not gender-delimited. Well, we'll see who shows up. There will be at least two of us there with our socks.

Pellew's Pelisse is finished, as in, buttons obtained, sewn on, and the whole tried on and buttoned up. It really does fit! It looks just the way I wanted it to! I'll wash and block it tonight and see if I can get a photo up on the blog later this week. I bought a new digital camera on Saturday -- one with "digital image stabilization" -- so maybe my photos will be in focus now. It also has a large screen, so I can actually see what I'm shooting. Whether or not the User Stupidity Factor will be affected remains to be seen.

The French Market Bag is nearly finished as well. The body is done, I've completed the bind-offs, and made one of the four handle sections. They go really quickly since they are small to start with and incorporate frequent decreases, so I anticipate this project being tossed onto the done pile by the end of the week, too.

I tried spinning some of the precious bison fiber. I had no luck at all with my handspindle, and I need to do some major adjustments to my wheel to successfully get a yarn going. I did spin up and ply two inches with my fingers, though, and it will make a gorgeous, soft yarn. It doesn't seem very durable, though, so if I made socks with it I'd use the bison on the cuffs as an accent, or maybe just as the cuffs and make the workhorse part of the sock out of a wool/nylon blend. The Amazing A-- bought some of the bison fiber and asked D-- the Fiber Artist Extraordinaire to card it with some caramel-colored merino, and she plans to spin it into laceweight yarn for a lace shawl. I wonder how bison would look and work as the nubs in a tweed? I think the staple on bison is too long to spin on a charkha, but it's worth a try.

I feel like I've climbed out of the Crafter's Black Hole and have made some real progress on things.