Have you seen this? Interweave’s Spin-Off Magazine is having celebrating the International Year of Fibers by offering up a contest. You need to process the fiber from scratch to a completed scarf of your own design…all by May 20, 2009. (Thankfully, you don’t need to raise nor sheer the sheep yourself, but I think you should get bonus points if you do!)
That’s TWELVE weeks from now, folks!
If you follow the guidelines set forth by both Spin-Off and Keep the Fleece, you can enter your scarf into both contests. Two birds, one stone. Or rather, two contests, one scarf.
So, are you in?
I have a raw lamb’s fleece and a couple of alpaca fleeces in the garage. I have some silk cocoons in the storage bin. I have some brand spanking new Forsythe 4 pitch combs (just came in the mail last week).
Okay, it’s time for this project manager to start building a project plan and get this going! There’s lots to do. Decide on a theme. Scour the fleece (or degum the silk cocoons?). Decide on how to process the fleece (comb or card or spin from the lock, a la Stove?). Create a new scarf design. Spin some samples (wheel or spindle?) Do a swatch (knit or weave?)
Decisions, decisions, decisions.
Gotta run. Lots of things to do!
P.S. $5 per entry? Who are you kidding here? What over achiever will be able to submit more than one entry in this amount of time?!