It is now Day 8 of the Tour de Fleece and a lot of spinning has happened at Chez Sheepspace.
First, I started with some Southern Cross Fibres BFL in the ‘Spring Forward’ colourway:
Day 1:
Day 2:
Day 3:
Finished Yarn:
1015m of laceweight singles spun on my Louet Victoria on the smallest whorl (14:1, I believe), 111g.
I then turned to some very pink Falkland from Spinning a Yarn:
Day 4:
And the finished yarn:
155m of aran weight 3ply, spun on my Kromski Symphony at 10:1.
Enjoying my time with my Symphony, I started 200g of Sheltand in ‘Last of the Sunflowers’ (Wildcraft club fibre; Nov 2011).
Day 7:
This is destined for a handspun yoke cardi for my husband and he’s delighted it is in progress. I’m on the second bobbin of 3 now, and I’ll likely have it finished by the time he returns from Holland next week.
I also started the week off with a long-term WIP that I’m determined to finished during the Tour. My goal has been to spin a minimum of 15 minutes a day on the spindle, and most days it is closer to 30 minutes. Thankfully, my daughter is a slow eater and provides amble spindling opportunity. This, again, is 50/50 BFL/silk in ‘Autumn Leaves’ from Wildcraft:
I started with 32g remaining (and being spun on my 18g Walnut Wildcraft spindle that my husband bought me for our 5th anniversary):
By Day 4 I had finished the third spindle’s worth of fibre:
On Day 5 I started the filling the final spindle (18g maple leaf resin spindle, also Wildcraft):
Day 8:
I am a quarter of the way through the final spindle, and have 18g left to spin (each of those little bumps is 6g), which means if I continue spinning this daily it should be done and plied by the end of the Tour.