Day 14-16 Tour de Fleece : )

A little behind on the posting, having a blast at The Barnstable Fair! The people are great, it is so wonderful to demo spinning and having so many people interested, old and young, several want to learn to spin, yeah come join the group! Where do you get the fiber? How do you make that fluffy stuff to string? How does a spinning wheel spin the fiber? (That is mostly men questions: )

Poor Sheryl's drive band broke, several attempts lighting it together as you can see in the pics.

Spun and plied my green merino/alpaca fiber, attempted to core spin with corriedale, and spinning my Bunnie, a giant angora, yummy : )

Day 12 & 13 Tour de Fleece

Lagging behind on these posts lol like peddling up hill!

Well I spun more alpaca and merino, and started spinning some green merino top/alpaca.

I also was drop spindling at the dentist office, see you can spin anywhere : )

Will be down at the Barnstable fair, don't know if I can access internet there : { I hope so!

Day 11 Tour de Fleece

Day 11 Tour de Fleece

Just finished spinning and plying the skein of Great Aunt Patuffa!

Tour de Fleece Day 10

Yeah Monday is the day of rest, so I spent some time knitting an arm warmer I spun and designed.

The fiber is from a 10lb coopworth fleece I bought at Maine Fiber Frolic I went to this year.

I also carded Great Aunt Patuffa, a Jacob fleece I bought this year from NH Sheep & Wool festival. It is such a yummy fleece : )

Day 9 Tour de fleece

Day 9 of Tour de Fleece.

It is Sunday and it is my spinning guild meeting day so I did a little of both , drop spinning and spinning on my Lendrum. We have a great group of ladies in this guild, we have so much fun together sharing stories, what we are spinning, great food. I was so glad I could make it!

This skein is alpaca with merino top, I dyed the merino : )

Day 8 Tour de Fleece

Day 8 slow spindling again, did about 4 hrs by the pool where my granddaughter was having her meet, she is an awesome swimmer! Can't wait till I can ply the silk, and can't wait to knit some lace!

Day 7 Tour de Fleece

Well it's day 7 would you believe a week of spinning, and I definitely can tell I am in low gear with drop spindling lol. Still spinning the yummy mulberry silk ; )

Day 6 Tour de Fleece

Today I will be traveling so I will be using my drop spindle, spinning mulberry silk from Zebisis : ) yummy fiber. Where I am going has no internet so I will be looking out for some Barnes & Noble, Panera anywhere that has free internet. I love spinning in the car and seeing the motion of the drop spindle : )

Day 5 Tour de Fleece

Day 5 of Tour de Fleece, the fiber of the day is a Coopworth fleece I purchased once again at the Big E fiber festival last year : )

I am really enjoying spinning on my Canadian Production Wheel! Spun up the Coopworth and plied it with the Shetland I spun the other day, also I am posting the Coopworth/Shetland skein along with the Shetland/Moorit skein .

Day 4 Tour de Fleece

Day 4 of spinning Moorit fiber and plying it with the Shetland fiber.

Tuesday nite was knitting nite at Barnes & Noble so I took my drop spindle and did some spinning Alpaca.

Day 3 Tour de Fleece

Happy 4th of July! Hope everyone is enjoying this beautiful day and welcome to day 3 of Tour de Fleece! Here is the picture of the skein that I spun on day 1 and 2 Romney and Lincoln 219 yds. The Romney fleece was purchased from the Barnstable Fair, and the Lincoln fleece was purchased from the first year that the Big E hosted a fiber festival! Looking forward to this year's Big E fiber festival : ) And I will be at the Barnstable Fair demonstrating spinning, hope to see you down there as it is a wonderful Fair for all !

Day 3: I spun from a Shetland fleece that I purchased last year when I went to NH Sheep & Wool festival.

Oh Yeah here is what can happen to a footman when you are not watching lol!

Tour de Fleece day 2

Day 2 of Tour de Fleece, team Russian underpants, day 1 spent time spinning on my CPW (Canadian Production Wheel) spinning a Romney fiber, sorry no pics on that day ; ( Today I spun Lincoln fiber and plied it with the Romney, will post the yarn picture tomorrow when it is dry, but I do have this picture of me spinning the Lincoln fiber. Twisted the footman on my CPW, just like a bike, have to stop and fix the coat hanger that served as a footman : p