Yellow Jersey!
Ooh yeah baby, that’s right. I’ve met my self-imposed Tour de Fleece challenge. I spun up every last tuft of that bizarro mystery fiber, and I have a total of maybe 800-ish yard of heavy worsted weight two ply. Best part about the challenge? This fiber would’ve languished for-freaking-ever in my stash, getting spun up in bits and pieces. Because it wasn’t sexy–there were no great process decisions to make, no colors to watch blend or pop or merge into interesting new things, no fancy techniques. It started out being several big lumps of animal-brown hair and it turned into many hanks of animal-brown yarn which, while a very gratifying transition indeed, was less than… riveting.
Which brought about what was *really* the best part of the challenge. Even better than watching the fiber turn into yarn was watching my spinning turn into slightly less mediocre spinning. Again, less than riveting, but very, very gratifying.
Tomorrow there will be pictures. Tonight there is quiet triumph.
Tags: fiber, jaune, Spinning, tour de fleece
July 28th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
Congratulations on finishing the Tour! Isn’t it just so cool to see that the spinning skills are actually improving
July 30th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
Congratulations! Can’t wait to see the results!!
August 2nd, 2008 at 9:47 am
Yay! You are spinning some lovely yarn there. I so wanted to get in on the Tour this year but it was not possible. Usually, during the Tour it is all Tour, all the time in our house! Maybe next year I will be able to join all of you. Congratulations on your achievement!
July 20th, 2010 at 6:10 pm
Buy:Propecia.Viagra Super Active+.Cialis Professional.Viagra Soft Tabs.Levitra.Tramadol.Viagra.Viagra Super Force.Cialis Soft Tabs.Maxaman.Cialis.Super Active ED Pack.Cialis Super Active+.Viagra Professional.Soma.Zithromax.VPXL….