While at the Guild I succumbed to the lure of the Mystery Box. Well, it has been a while since I participated in a crafty challenge not of my own devising. There were only three boxes left, all labelled ‘W’ for weaver:

And inside…

Quite a collection of odds and ends:

The playing card made me laugh – it was right at the bottom. The rules state that you must use at least 50% of the contents. Any knitted or crocheted items must be handspun, which is a pity as my first ideas involved weaving, knitting and crocheting the provided commercial yarn. You see, the first thing that popped into my head was a figurine:

These are early sketches. I’d like to be able to use all of the materials. The glitz and handful of short threads are the only things I can’t see a particular use for, so I suspect they are going to become stuffing.

In other news, I put something on the table loom last week:

My second huck lace project, using hemp yarn. It’ll either be a scarf or a table runner, depending on how much it softens up in the wash.