TdF Day 9

I have to admit, I am behind on my spinning. I am supposed to be at 18 ounces for today and I just finished spinning up my 14th ounce of the grey Shetland.

King Tut likes to watch my spinning.

I have also plied up the first 8oz I spun



I got bored with just spinning grey fiber, so I separated 8oz of Frabjous Fibers #232 Blue Lagoon colorway Polwarth Top

and spun the first two ounces



2 more ounces will go on this bobbin, that is why it is not even.

Happy spinning!

TdF Day 3

With everything else going on in my life today, spinning just didn't fit.
Instead I took an hour to divide up all of my fiber in the Shetland fleece,  so spinning would be easier the rest of the month.


Happy Spinning!

Natural Glory

What do you get when you put together hand spun fiber of these varieties:  

Alpaca, BFL, Bison, Cvm, Chiviot, Cormo, Charlie- Angora, Cashmere, Corriedale cross , Devon, Falkland, Finnish, Grey Gotland, Icelandic,Black Jacob, Lincoln, Masham, and Merino?

A shawl that is lovely in all it's natural colors

Cupcake and TdF

Last week I recieved some mail love

Katie (Jetgirl1313) sent me some cupcake (MadColor)




This is superwash merino, nylon and bamboo fiber.

I fluffed it out, spilit it in two then split one half into 8 sections.



I spun the split up sections first onto one bobbin



Some of it is over spun but it will loosen up in the plying.

Now I am spinning the 2nd half straight as it is presented.

Thank you Katie, this has been fun!!

I added this to my Tour de Fleece spinning after I had finished the masham that was on Roo




and the novelty yarn that was on the FS

Tour de Fleece

I have been spinning. Not as much as I had hoped, but some.

Masham- ShaZam color way




Merino- Cyber suicide color way

Holiday Weekend in Review

This last weekend was busy.
On Friday I opened up our new wheel. Review is on the latest podcast.
I got it all put together



and started spinning some BFL I had picked up on the last trip



On Saturday we recorded the podcast and relaxed around the house.
Sunday we had some friends pop oer, so a quick clean up of the house was in order, then Sarge headed out to paint the shed. The community had given us a deadline to get it painted by this weekend, so it had to be done.




You can see the ugly green it used to be. It did not match our house.



Sarge hamming it up



Monday was the Fourth and as tradition here, we had a dinner picnic at the channel before the firworks are set off.

Smiles from Little Bear





Kisses too





Grampa is a sit-upon



Deb showed up before me!



We brought ear protection for Little bear...they are almost as big as he is!!



Getting close to fireworks time



We got the grandkids glo necklaces. Notice how Little miss Z is wearing hers...



The musical fountain went off and the fireworks were wonderful.

Today I finished the yarn I started on Friday.


Back to regular blogging soon.

Fiber on Friday

Happy Earth Day!

Spinning!

I bought some fiber from Creatively Dyed when I was at Rhinebeck in October.

It is at the top, the blue braid. It is Merino/bamboo/seacell blend in the Po color way.
I decided to play with the new bulky flyer on Roo and see what yarn this would produce. As a single it was about worsted weight and I loved it but I did not feel it was well enough spun to stand up as a single by itself. So I pulled out a ball of CVM that I have had since the beginning of my spinning days almost three years ago.

This also spun up about worsted/Aran weight as a single.
As I like blues and browns together, I decided to ply them up.
Here are my results:

It has to be soaked and thwacked still, but I love it.
Now what am I going to do with 332 yards (16 oz) of bulky yarn?

I also spun up the Phat Fiber box that I had received to review on the podcast.
King Tut confronted me like I hacked up a fur ball when I laid it out to be photographed.

It really is lovely and I will get better pictures of it. So soft and glittery with all the samples spun together. It came out to 60 yards of thick/thin art yarn that I need to figure out what to make from it.

Blue

I bought this from a friend in January

Crown Mountain Fiber

Corriedael Pencil Roving

Lady of the Lake-Colorway

Started Spinning it mid-February

Finished the singles last night

Just in time for my trial run with my new Bulky Flyer which came today.

This is 8oz on one bobbin.

I did pretty well on splitting the fiber. I had 2 yards left on one bobbin after plying.

332 yds of worsted weight

Still needs to be soaked and thwacked (yes that is the word)