My Tour de Fleece goals have been modest this year: finish the Pomegranate mohair (including plying) and spin at least 15min each day. I met the first goal over the weekend in Amsterdam: 200+ yards of 2ply mohair in a color dubbed “Pomegranate”: I bought the mohair back in 2014… Read More »Tour de Fleece update
This year I made an effort to prepare for Tour de Fleece. By which I mean I got it together enough to join a team on Ravlery: Team Spindlers 2019. It made sense to me since it means my team mates are fellow spindlers. Yet again, I realized this was… Read More »Tour de Fleece 2019
I realized I might not be getting enough spinning done when I found myself twisting the car fur I cleaned out of the cat brushes into little lengths of yarn. This weekend, I correct a bit for this spinning deficit. We had a lovely warm and sunny weekend this weekend.… Read More »Finally, some spinning
This is the spinning I worked on today: Even the least observant can see that this is NOT more plying. If nothing else, the lovely handful of fiber gives it away. But its mohair, and it said it wanted to be spun, and how can you say no to mohair?… Read More »How can you say no?
