Two-thirds of the way through this year’s Tour de France/Fleece, and I haven’t been spinning or biking nearly as much as I’d planned to. Not that I’ve been completely inactive… I’m just taking it easy. I’ve been working on spinning this Fiber Optic gradient from end to end, and it’ll be chain-plied to keep the colour sequence. The tricky part is that I’m spinning...
For the Tour de Fleece this year, I planned to challenge myself to spin and ply one ounce of fibre for each of the 21 days that the Tour rides. Most of my fibre stash is in four- and eight-ounce increments, so I’ve adjusted by one ounce and now I’m aiming for 20 ounces spun and plied… which is still going to be one...
From Mulberry Fibers on Etsy comes this ridiculously pink braid of 75% merino/25% nylon, which I am spinning into a two-ply fingering weight for a commission: Here are the singles, resting before being plied. My camera wasn’t fully able to capture the brightness and saturation of the pink: I really enjoyed spinning this. The fibre drafted well, without sticking together or sliding apart. The...
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