Tour de Fleece

This year (my first) I'm taking part as a member of Team Yarnscape. For those of you unfamiliar with this odd event the concept is simple, you spin every day that the Tour de France rides, attempting along the way to set yourself particular goals. Now in the run up to the start I had all sorts of wonderful ideas but very quickly realised that with life messing me about the way it is at the moment, that in a lot of ways just spinning every day was going to be a whole challenge in itself! That said in the first week I've got quite a lot done...

 

All three of these mini-skiens have been spun and plied during the Tour, I have about another half bobbin of the Tethys silk brick (one of my original goals) spun up and the other day I started messing about with some silk caps I'd bought at Woolfest.

Agh those caps! Now I've spun some samples of hankies before, learning the technique of splitting off a hankie, or more realistically two, before putting a hole in the middle and essentially pre-drafting the heck out of them. I don't know what it is with these caps but I'm damned if I can get only one or two separated at a time, which is making the drafting an utter nightmare. Put it this way, I now have matching blisters on the first knuckle of both my index fingers :( The yarn does look pretty though so pictures will shortly follow.

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