The singles for the jumper are complete! This is what I’ve spun so far on the Tour:

and here is the entire lot of singles destined to be plied:

I’m stoked. I’ll start plying them up tomorrow. In the meantime I’ve started working on my silk laceweight for my Aeolian shawl. Photos to follow, likely tomorrow. :)

My contribution for the day, all spun before tea time:

I have to say, I’m certainly getting faster at longdraw spinning. I think I should be able to do it in my sleep by the time I’m finished the jumper.

By 2:30pm BST:

On the Hedgerow spindle is Wildcraft English Wool blend tops in the Trudge colourway.

By 10:00pm (in a darkened room by street lamplight, no less… I love my camera):

There may have been some spinning happening. ;)

I have made some more progress.

In fact, I’m more than a quarter of the way through my 900g of fibre. Yay! :)

I’ll find something more colourful to photograph tomorrow, but in the meantime I’m finishing off my handspun BSJ. It still needs buttons, though. Hoping to find some soon so we can have some new FO photos.

We have progress on a jumper!

That’s approximately 130g spun up today… only 770g left to spin before plying up all 1.2kg worth of jumper.

This was a project I started a while back, approximately Christmas time, but as usual, pretty coloured fibre called to me and the rest is history. One of my main goals for the Tour de Fleece to to finish up all those yarns in progress, especially this jumper. The body bag of fibre is taking over my cupboard and I’d like the space back.

I’m hoping to update my Tour progress daily. With any luck I’ll post in some knitting, too, as I have socks to share. :)

I’d like you to meet my May club fibre:

It’s called Hedgerows and it is a beautiful Shetland. This fibre was a dream to spin, I really enjoyed it. I spun it longdraw style but from the top itself to produce a lovely squishy, sproingy yarn roughly worsted weight 2ply. I really love how this turned out and it is in queue to become a tomten for my little girl. I’ve got a few braids of Shetland from another dyer that I thought might coordinate with this for striping details.

I’m totally looking forward to knitting this up, but I’m sad I’m out of club fibre. Good thing there’s only a couple weeks until the July shipment. ;)

My Violas fibre is all spun up and ready to be knit.

Details
Fibre: Wildcraft fibre club, March edition, BFL/silk, Violas
Yarn: 2ply semi-worsted, spun mediumdraw back, woolen style
475 metres, 181 grams, 12 WPI, DK weight

And I have a small amount of navajo plied Violas. Once I realized I had way more fibre than I needed, I decided to play with the rest. The n-plied will likely become doll-wear, where as the 2ply is destined to be a vest for my little girl.

This also falls into Project Spectrum for East (yellow). :)

I have a little catch up to do… so let’s talk about the Pansi Socks. :)

The fibre was a handdyed merino that I had a few issues with whilst spinning, but I have to say I was so happy with the end result:

For whatever reason I just can’t get a decent photo of these socks, but I’m beyond chuffed with the socks themselves, although I think they’ll end up being bed socks in the long run. They are soft and squooshy and I love how they striped. They’ve sold me on making my own self striping sock yarn. :)

Speaking of spinning my own sock yarn, I’m planning to take this up as my Tour de Fleece project(s). There’s a Ravelry group for the Tour de Fleece and I’ve joined the Team Woolies. If you are interested in joining the challenge, do check out the group and join a team if you’d like.

Go Team Woolies! :)

I’d also like to thank everyone for the lovely comments on my Handspun Daisy cardigan. The mum loved it.

…because of course, knitting a Daisy cardigan and Pansi socks just aren’t enough. There is a definite flower theme happening at the moment.

I thought I’d share the newest fibre on the wheel.

This is the March fibre club shipment from Wildcraft. It’s a BFL/Silk blend in the Violas colourway and I have 200g that really want to become a vest for my little girl.

I wanted to do a long-draw with this fibre but it’s just not quite happening, likely due to the silk content, so I’m doing a supported long-draw instead. It’s going quite well so far and I’m loving the colours.

I’ll also be using this as one of my Project Spectrum East projects, although I’m not actually sure if I’ll manage to get it knit before the end of June. However, getting it spun up is definitely a step in the right direction to getting it done.

The Banana-nana yarn is now finished and anxiously waiting to be cast on as a BSJ. I’m quite chuffed with how it turned out.

It’s a 3ply (navajo plied) superwash BFL yarn that works up to about 14 WPI, or what I’d classify as a heavy fingering. I’ve got about 348 metres of yarn to work with and I’m slightly worried I might not have enough to complete a BSJ out of this single skein of yarn. I have a back-up plan, though, so no worries.

I’m also quite chuffed that the yarn is fairly on the yellow side. I was hoping at least one of the fibres I was spinning up for Project Spectrum might actually be yellowy rather than just have yellow in there somewhere. ;)