Tour de Fleece, day 19

I've finished spinning my one ounce of crab fiber that I bought at Black Sheep Gathering.



I haven't counted the yards, but I'm guessing it's around 100 yards of sport weight 2 ply.

On to the next challenge!!

Tour de Fleece, day of Rest

It's a rest day on the Tour de Fleece, so I caught up on a great many things today. I did laundry (sheets and towels), cleaned the kitchen (all those dishes!), cooked dinner, put clean sheets on the bed (with help from Wes), cuddled with Wes, and continued to lament over the amount of dye that has come out of the Hempathy I'm knitting my Strafford Tee out of (see how close it is to being finished!). And finally, I got to work on a project that is a secret. I made a collage of some of what I did today.

Tour de Fleece, day 17

I went to a lovely Tour de Fleece inspired spinning party this afternoon and had quite a bit of fun. Except for the spinning myself into a headache part, but that got better with Advil. I did some batt designing with a friend's drum carder, and this is what I came up with.



It's mostly a teal-ish blue (the kind that's impossible to accurately photograph) with bits of red wool and some orange firestar. I'm trying to come up with an appropriate Dr. Who name (probably 10th Doctor). Any suggestions will be taken into consideration.

Tour de Fleece, day 16

I've been spinning every day, but I've been failing on the pictures. I do have one picture of the cotton/lycra in spinning process. Great googly moogly, cotton is difficult to spin. I've made some progress since this picture, but not much.

Tour de Fleece day 9: Silk

I finished my mawata (0.3 ounces) and ended up with 110 yards ove lace weight 2 ply. This yarn is very, very hot pink.

 

Now I'm working on the cotton/lycra blend fro BSG. It's much more difficult that anything else, since it's got an even shorter staple length than the baby camel. No pictures yet since it doesn't look like much.

Tour de Fleece, day 8

Ow, drafting the mawata is hard on my right hand, especially my left thumb. But I'm moving along, today I spun 4 "sheets."



I'm loving how shiny it is.

Tour de Fleece, day 7

I decided that my next Tour de Fleece spinning challenge would be some silk mawata (hankie). I picked the hot pink that I got at Black Sheep. There was a learning curve when it came to drafting, but I've managed to get that sorted out. However, if I spin too thin and the yarn breaks...well, the spun silk really doesn't like to stick to it's un-spun counter part. Luckily breaking is rare since the fiber is so strong. So far this is the thinnest spinning I've ever done.

The following pictures is the first three "sheets" of the hankie spun up. The whole hankie weighed about 0.3 ounces.