Spinning Tuesdays: I Have an Art Batt Problem and April's Spinning Plan

I love art batts, both the sexy smooth and the everything but the kitchen sink kinds. As I was going through stash to make my spinning plans I discovered a bunch of Bricolage Fiber Studio batts.

A bunch of batts

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Instead of just petting them, I looked at them with the intention of spinning and knitting ideas. I know I want to corespin them.

These I want to make into a shawl:

These for a corespun shawl

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This one and another with the same blue I want to incorporate into a mill spun yarn sweater:

An accent for Cascade 220

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I am happy with both of those plans and excited to see how it all comes together.

 

 

I am also happy with the bigger plan I made for my spinning. I planned just for the month of April, because two months worth seemed over whelming and I found myself writing down impossible plans for May because it seems so far away.

For April deadline spinning I will spin:

Fiber Fiesta for the next issue of Knittyspin
Samples for the Spin Art SAL on SpinDoctor, the rest of the singles yarns
The yarn for the Spunky Eclectic blue shawl I have in my head, worsted spun

Blue shawl swatch

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For April non deadline spinning I will:

Practice worsted spinning (for the blue shawl above, also a 2012 spinning goal)
Practice hand carding (from Carol Rhoades Madrona class)
Try dizzing from my drum carder (from Sarah Anderson's Madrona class)
Spin and write a pattern for easy mittens and hats using handspun for holiday gifts
Ponder all the bits for teaching a knitting with handspun class
Spin three things for just spinning

All completely doable. Just figuring it out and writing it down released so much spinning stress for me that I sat down and turned these:

Huckleberry Knits fibers

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

into this:

Huckleberry Knits yarn