Where I like to do THAT

I put on my bed anything I could need (needles, yarns, notes, scissors etc). Then I watch TV and knit. I hate to be disturbed during that. Nobody may touch anything of my tools or yarns or knittings (that means the safest way to avoid this is not to come in the house at all). This is how my bed usually looks like:

I have no problems to knit in publics (The most interesting reaction was from my neighbour who said: "You knit??? My god, I would better chop wood than knit." I was also very surprised at such a weird choise but finally that's even good that some people prefer choping wood, because somebody has to do that as well). I have knitted in train, bus, and even during lessons at school (hundreds years ago, lol), I don't like to loose time. But actually I have not many projects suitable for outside home knitting - my projects often uses many yarns or perpetual calculations, or consists of many small pieces etc. So it's always better to knit at home. As every normal knitter I dream of a special knitting room, forbidden for other family members.

My new skill is very old one actually

There is another one skill which doesn't fit in one blogpost with previous one.
I enjoy doing something different. If everybody makes jewerly I will not make it. If everybody knits socks I will buy mine in a supermarket. I want to do something exotic. And I also like to enter into the spirit of past. Once I got to know about sprang - very old (coming from bronze age) and almost forgotten technique. The idea of that is braiding the piece from both ends towards middle. This site explains the spranging basics.

I watched all videos and the technique seemed not to be too difficult. Actually I decided that I should sprang a jacket or at least a tunic. But unfortunately there is a special frame needed for serious spranging. My husband promissed to make me one but that will not happen immediately because he also needs inspiration. So - while my special sprang tool is still expecting to be made I have to braid something little bit smaller at first. I decided to make a hair band.
Well... I wish I should chosen a bookmark better (the length of garnment is determined in the beginning). There is some mess with edge yarns and that leads to mistakes. Should I wear a faulty hair bandage?

Even if you cannot sight any errors (of course you cannot - it looks like there isn't anything correct at all) in this picture you can believe me that there are a lot of them. But I haven't given up the idea about tunic.

Making a mess of wool

One of my new passions is felting. My felting skills are in the very beginning. Some time ago my opinion about felting was that it is not for me because it means doing weird actions for making a mess. I do not like mess - well, there actually IS mess in my kitchen - but there MUST be strict order when creating textile. But somehow I have changed my mind - when I realized that felting is much more flexible for making art while knitting and crocheting are more "mathematical" and determined. After 3 lessons I have to deduce that I have not enough 2 main qualities needed for felting - feelings and muscle. Logics doesn't help here at all! So it's time for me to go out from that "box" which is called "logics". You just have to feel how long and how hard to act on that soggy piece of wool - and always to be ready for a surprise at the final. When knitting or crocheting you count stiches and make some calculations and can follow the quality all the time. When felting you just hope that the result will not be worse as you expect.
Well, you can see my first feltings (I didn't manage without help of the teacher):
Flower:

Slippers which are not technically perfect however fit well:

This one HAD to be upside, lol (actually it is even good that it turned out to be downside for accident because it is rather ugly):