Tour de Fleece–Day 11

Following a day of rest yesterday we are now on to day 11 of the Tour and this is what I’ve been up to this evening.


and now for a close up……


About 80g of my home dyed BFL, spun longdraw and Navajo plyed.
It's about sock weight and I’m very pleased with it; it looks like real yarn!

Tour de Fleece–Day 7, 8 and 9

For the last few day I’ve been busy spinning the pink candy floss fluff and today I finished it – yay!

And to ply it…..yes that’s right, I’m going to Navajo ply it of course.
So, week one of the Tour is done and dusted and this is the result chez Pearlesyarn. We have:

• 50g of natural white home prepped Jacob spun longdraw and Navajo plyed; and
• 80g of home dyed BFL spun longdraw and Navajo plyed.

By the way Pearlesyarn is a whole two years old today! That means that I've been part of the blogosphere for two whole years rambling on about my thing!. So a big thank you to all my lovely visitors and followers and to all those of you who take the time to leave your kind and encouraging comments.

Tour de Fleece–Day 6

Day 6 of the Tour and I’m taking a little break from the Jacob by spinning the little rolags I made yesterday from the pinky BFL braid. They are spinning up nicely and the colour is very pretty; I usually don’t do pink but I actually do like this. I only managed a little bit tonight as it was Knit Club and  I spent most of the evening in the pub knitting and eating ice-cream with knitty, spinney friends.

Not sure what I’ll knit it into though; its about 80g so may be enough for some mittens maybe?

Tour de Fleece–Day 5

Day 5 and this evening I thought I would have a bit of a change from the Jacob so I dug out this.

It’s the BFL that I dyed at Lesley’s mums when we did the crafty workshop afternoon with tea and cake. As I am a bit addicted at the moment to my hand cards and spinning longdraw I carded it into these lovely squishy rolags. They are all set to be spun up tomorrow.

Tour de Fleece–Day 4

Day 4 – yay!

Ok, so I have today completed my first skein of the Tour – hurrah!

It’s only little though – about 59 grams of white Jacob. I navajo plied it this evening and I reckon it’s probably about aran weight. I’m pretty pleased with it.

Tour de Fleece – Day 3

Day 3 and I’ve managed about 40 minutes of spinning this evening which means that I’ve completed spinning the first 50ish grams of the white Jacob. I’ll ply it tomorrow :-)
 

Tour de Fleece–Day 2

Hello!

Day 2 of the Tour de Fleece and I have continued carding my Jacob fleece into graduated sheepy colours. I’ve carded another two batts; one is very light grey and the second is slightly darker.


I’ve also continued spinning the white; this is how far I’ve got so far. It’s about 35g so I will probably get the white completed tomorrow and may even get it plied although work is going to definitely get in the way!


More tomorrow.