Not twenty minutes ago, I finally finished carding the fiber that I’ll be spinning for the rest of the Tour de Fleece.  This has taken about a week, working an hour or two a day, blending small amounts on fiber on my hand cards, then re-carding the carded fibers to blend them some more.  I used this Knitty article as a jumping off point, I followed the directions for blending colors the only difference is that all my fibers are white.  I have four or five big batts of fiber and tomorrow I’ll diz them all out into roving and then I can start spinning. 

The spinning is what I’m most excited (and a little nervous) about.  I’m going for a two ply worsted weight yarn, something that will look good with garter stitch and lace and will make a pretty February Lady Sweater.  I haven’t decided yet if I’ll dye the yarn (and I will wait until after I’ve finished spinning, if I do decide to dye) or leave it white but right now I’m leaning towards leaving it white. 

Here’s what’s in the picture above, on the top row, left to right:  a little bit of Romney fleece, a little ball of Merino, a carded batt.  On the bottom row, left to right:  a bag of Cashmere and a bag of Angora.  My hand cards are pretty big and that batt is squished up a little, I have four more of them that are about the same size.  It seems like a lot fiber but I’m still worried it won’t be enough, all I can do is spin it and hope it all works out.

I have dishes to do and coffee to brew, so I’m off.  It’s storming here and I’m on my laptop on the couch with no internet or cable and the lights keep flashing.  I’ll upload this as soon as I have internet access again, seems like it goes out every time it rains any more.