Tour de Fleece Day 4 & 5

Tour de Fleece Day 4

I didn’t have a chance to blog about my spinning yesterday so you get double today.  Yesterday I spun up the very last of my Rambouillet/Lama mix, the same fiber I used to spin the yarn for my mom’s Fair Isle Jazz scarf.  I spun this into a thick and thin two ply heavy worsted yarn and got about 170yds.  I wish I had a mountain of this roving, it’s so light and soft easy to spin.  I just want to wrap myself up in it and roll around, it’s that good.  The vendor that I bought it from was at the fiber fair again this year but I didn’t see any of this wool or I would have bought every bit of it.

Tour de Fleece Day 5

Today I dug through a box of roving and found a braid of superwash wool that I dyed last summer (I think).  I’m planning a three ply yarn, hopefully fingering weight and, hopefully, enough for a pair of socks, though its not looking like I’ll have enough.  I spun one and a half bobbins of singles today and I’ll finish the rest and start plying, if I have time, tomorrow.

I’ve been so busy thinking about spinning that I keep forgetting to photograph my knitting.  I’ve knit a little over half of Cold Mountain and I don’t even think I’ve mentioned it.  I also finished my woven houndstooth bag and folded it up, laid it on my desk, and haven’t given it a second thought until today.  Guess I have some things to catch up on, I’ll get to that tomorrow.