I have officially completed my first Tour de Fleece.
I am pretty happy with how it went, overall. I didn’t spin as much as I had hoped. Actually that’s not true. I spun more than I thought I would at the start, but after finishing a whole braid in my first 8 days, I had thought I’d get more done.
However, it seems that spinning progress got a lot slower in the second half. Maybe because I spun less, time-wise…maybe because the fibre was different and it just took me longer. I am still not sure.
In any case, I turned a 115 gram braid of merino bamboo into 300 yards of gorgeous yarn,
and a 62 gram braid of merino cashmere into 230 yards of delightful squooshy-ness,
and I made some headway into a third braid of camel/silk.
I spun indigodragonfly only…being their team captain and all. The only untouched indigodragonfly fibre I have left is some merino/seacell…but I have 300 grams of that so I am keeping that until I figure out what I want that to become.
I will keep on keeping on with the Humpspun…and maybe alternate that bobbin with some other fibre that has been languishing in my stash. I am looking to learn some woolen techniques and I may have to break into some batts for that.
Beautiful, beautiful results! Congratulations on competing the Tour 🙂
Thank you so much!! I just started spinning again a few months ago, so the Tour came at just the right time to get me back into spinning regularly. 🙂
Those colors are superb! I wish I could touch the yarn . . .
I can take no credit for the amazing colours…but both the finished skeins are amazingly soft. I am very happy with how both of the finished skeins turned out.