Le Tour de Fleece: Day Twenty-Three
Written on July 26, 2009
Well today is the final day of the tour. For me it has been a sprint all the way to the line to finish off this yarn.
First off here is the finished yarn from yesterday.
Today I spun up 50g of BFL:
Then plied it until one of my BFL bobbins ran out:
This was 103g, 279m.
Then I plied the remaining grey Dorset with both ends of the BFL to create a 3 ply again, until the BFL ran out. This was 14g, 41m.
The remaining 1g of grey Dorset I chain plied to create 7m of what feels like garden twine. I’m afraid I didn’t take a photo of that (you aren’t missing much). I think part of the problem was that the Dorset isn’t very soft, and part of the problem was that I plied far too tightly.
I am pretty impressed with what I have managed to achieve in the Tour de Fleece. I have just had a tot up and have spun 730m of 3ply out of the Dorset fleece, which works out as 2190m of singles! This is not including the bobbin of black Shetland which I haven’t measured. It has also been fantastic to see everyone else’s spinning, it has given me loads of ideas for things I would like to try. Roll on next year! (I think I might have a bit of a rest first)
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Wow – that’s incredibly impressive! Hope it hasn’t completely finished you off.
July 27, 2009 @ 9:33 am
Impressive amount of handspun!
July 28, 2009 @ 10:06 pm