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I'm getting super antsy to get back into crafting, whether it's in visual focus or not 🤔

JillianEve just released a tutorial to spin prepared flax, and @kazash recently sent me 300 grams of prepared linen to spin. I really want to do it for Tour De Fleece.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tn47G_nAuk

#tourdefleece

Turned some wool into fluff today.

#handcarding #wool #tourdefleece #tourdefleece2025

A wooden sieve full of natural white scoured wool and a hand carder. Next to it there is a pink bag with natural white carded wool mini batts ready to be spun.

Anyone else thinking about doing Tour De Fleece this year? I'm in the mood to spin lots of things at the moment, not for any real use, but the joy of just spinning.

#spinning #spinningwheel #tourdefleece

#3goodthings:
1. Got up to the armhole shaping on the new tank top I’m working on.
2. Getting some combing done on my #TourdeFleece project, for some embroidery/colcha floss.
3. DadGoth’s hasn’t had anything w/alcohol in it for 8 days now.

I finished spinning the singles for the Mega Multi Gradient, hooray! Just one more skein to ply, which will only take about half an hour, and it'll be done! The whole pound of fibre took 11 weeks to spin and ply. I won't know the yardage until after it's washed, but if it matches the other stuff I made (fingers crossed that it does, because it's supposed to), it's about 1800 yards of 3-ply fingering weight yarn. Pictures soon :)

It's strange not to have the wheel in the middle of the living room after so long. I'm not planning to start a new spinning project until the #TourDeFleece starts in July. Gonna focus on some other artsy-craftsy things until then.

#spinning #HandSpunYarn #yarn

Had hopes of spinning sprints through the Femme #TourDeFleece but health crash demanded a week-long nap. Half a braid to go.
@fiberarts #spinning #handspun

Purple 💜

After a slow start, I'm getting into the groove for #TourDeFleece Femmes. This poor fiber is so old and squished that I feel like I'm spending as long fluffing and pre-drafting as I'm spending spinning, but I guess that's good for keeping my hands from doing too much of the same thing?

#spinning @spinning

Some purple tonal fiber spun into a single of yarn on a wooden bobbin.

Did a tiny bit of spinning and some prep for the first day of Tour de Fleece Femmes yesterday!

The teal green yarn is one of my long draw samples that used to be white but my kid did some solar dyeing with leftover food colouring. He told me all about how he wanted it to have a range of intensity to make a nice tonal. I'll wind it up and make a scarf for a stuffy or something in lieu of a square swatch.

#TourDeFleece #spinning

A very small bump of yarn on my wooden spinning wheel sitting out on the deck. The fiber is purple and I'm spinning thinner than I did for my last sample.

A mini skein of green tonal yarn, dyed after spinning. This is one of my long draw samples using slightly rustic Shetland and it's very unevenly spun.

TourDeFleece starts again today with the women’s Tour.

I’m about to start on the last braid of this gorgeous merino-bamboo-silk blend (400g of Magpie by GoldenFleeceStudio), and aim to finish this braid and ply the dark green by the end of this tour.

#TourDeFleece #TourDeFleece2024 @fiberarts #spinning #handspun

Two large wooden bobbins sitting on an upright lazy kate are mostly full with gorgeous purple-blue handspun yarn, flecked with teal and pink. A braid of the same fiber snakes between the bobbin toward the spinning wheel in the background with more of the same yarn on the bobbin-in-progress.
The lazy kate and the tall yarn swift behind sit on a set of white Ikea drawers below a weavibg warping board on the wall. And a whiteboard with large magnetic clips is blurred in the background.

I kind of love how my two singles show a clear progression in my long draw spinning skills! Single 1 tended to be overspun and lumpy but single 2 is looking more smooth. I'm still not where I'd like to be in terms of consistency but I'm so happy about the progress over last month!

#FiberGoals #TourDeFleece #spinning @spinning

Two singles of white yarn on bobbins sitting at right angles to each other on a colourful quilt. The right one is overspun and noticeably lumpy compared to the left one.

My July roundup for part one of TourDeFleece is now up for patrons. Lots of photos, behind the scenes info, and updates on other creative projects.

Also some love for elderly pets, both mine and my friends', who, like many of us who also have chronic illnesses, are struggling in this summer's heat.

:blobcatheart:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/july-crafting-de-109025896

#TourDeFleece #spinning #handspun #Patreon #ChronicIllness

Three wooden bobbins sit on a tensioned lazy kate (spool holder) with small samples of handspun wool yarn - cream cashmere, brown camel, and grey yak. An open ziplock bag full of yak fiber sits at the back of the white chest of drawers behind the yarn on the base of an Ashford yarn swift, next to the spinning wheel on the right.

Now that #tourdefleece is over, I join the olympics and start working on my tour the fleece resolution. Get that warp spun to make a rug.

#handspinning #fiberarts #FromSheepToTextile #HomegrownWool #SlowFashion #wool

I’ve been #spindlespinning while #cycletouring. This is the first small bit ~ 16 grams that I plied today. Now I appreciate my #spinningwheels even more and my respect for #spindlespinners greatly increased. It is an excellent lightweight hobby for on the road. #TourDeFleece

Turkish #spindle with quite uneven peach colored 2-plied #yarn of wool with some silk and viscose.

The finished skein

#TourDeFleece #spinning #spindle

Large skein of multicolor two ply yarn. There's greens and blues and pinks, among other little bits of color, all barber pole around each other

Tour totals
Time - 5896 minutes / 98 hours 16 minutes
Weight - 2475g / 5.46 pounds
Length - 4417yds / 4038.90 meters
It’s been an absolute blast and I am flabbergasted by my totals.

#Tdf2024 #tdfteampeloton2024 #TourDeFleece #TourDeFleece2024

2 rows of skeins of yarn laid on a wooden deck. The top row is off white chunky, the bottom row is multicoloured and 4ply/dk

Stage 21
No spinning today. Instead I spend it carding together all the last bits of fibre I have in the house. I have 4 shades of alpaca, 2 shades of silk noil, and some gold sparkle. I’ll have 20 batts of about 80g each when I’m done which I’ll put aside ready for the next spin.

Back tomorrow with the tour totals.
#Tdf2024 #tdfteampeloton2024 #TourDeFleece #TourDeFleece2024

The lighting is not doing the colors any favors here, it's all washed out. But I skeined up my giant spindleful and am gonna give it a bath

#TourDeFleece #spinning

200 grams of multicolor two ply yarn, wrapped around three of the four top spokes of a pair of dining chairs. It's tied off in several places with crochet thread

Spinning continues, slowly. Enjoying the colour change in this braid from Fully Spun. (Yes, even though this one isn't spun yet 😅)

#TourDeFleece #spinning @spinning

A cross arm drop spindle with blue and pink fiber in a unicorn themed bag under it.

A cross arm drop spindle with a gradient of blue singles wound on it. It's sitting on a very dated orange/brown couch.

Stage 19
Time - 146 minutes
Weight - 86g
Watched - NCIS season 21 episode 10 and Firefly episodes 9/10/11

Finished all the available NCIS so back round to trying to finish Firefly before the end of the tour. Almost got this braid spun so hopefully should get to finish the spin and ply tomorrow.
#Tdf2024 #tdfteampeloton2024 #TourDeFleece #TourDeFleece2024

One full green bobbin and one partially full green bobbin. The yarn is neon pinks and yellows.

It was too heavy to actually *drop* as a drop spindle and I had to just do a weird combo of twiddling it between my fingers and building up twist park and draft style

Remind me never to do a full 200g skein ever again

#TourDeFleece #spinning #spindle

#TourDeFleece

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