Archive for the ‘Tour de Fleece 2009’ Category

Night Sky and Sweater Yarn

I finished up a lot of spinning last week. On Friday, I finished off Night Sky, and it was about time. I started that one back in December, when I thought I’d want more sock yarn for my trip to New York for Christmas. I am totally in love with the resulting yarn.
I am getting [...]

Tour de Fleece, Days 3 through 10

To be fair, I had a really hard time getting nice pictures of this spin in progress. I think that’s enough of an excuse for the lack of blogging action.
I wanted to switch from the brown, natural roving to something a little more colorful and exciting to spin. I’d picked up some more Superwash Merino [...]

Tour de Fleece, Days 1 and 2

I’m going to at least try to blog most of the Tour. Even if it means combining days into posts.
Day 1: English Leicester lambswool singles.
I’ve been plodding along on these bobbins from the big bag of English Leicester lambswool that I picked up at Wisconsin Sheep and Wool last fall. I didn’t get far into [...]