{"id":1651,"date":"2011-07-12T18:25:33","date_gmt":"2011-07-12T17:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/?p=1651"},"modified":"2011-07-12T18:25:33","modified_gmt":"2011-07-12T17:25:33","slug":"le-tour-de-fleece-2011-day-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heatherknits.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/12\/le-tour-de-fleece-2011-day-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Le Tour de Fleece 2011: Day Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"

A good day here. I managed to finish the current stage of a work project, and then it was an exciting race for the cyclists, with no major crashes.<\/p>\n

Also last night was a speaker meeting at spinning group<\/a> with Teresinha Roberts<\/a> talking about Woad and Indigo. Really interesting talk, I hadn’t realised there were so many different kinds of indigo, and Teresinha was a very good and knowledgeable speaker. She also let me have a go on her rakestraw spinner<\/a> which was great fun!<\/p>\n

I managed to do a bit of spinning today too. I am now working on the 70% alpaca, 30% merino fibre in Cappuccino that I bought from John Arbon<\/a> last October. I have about 600g and the plan is to spin a 2ply to a thickness of somewhere between a commercial 4ply and DK, and make a nice big soft squishy shawl. Here is my progress so far:<\/p>\n

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The coin is a \u00a32 celebrating the discovery of DNA.<\/p>\n

I thought I would give your eyes a rest after the searing orange of the last week, but I am a little concerned about the beige-ness of the current yarn. I think I like it, but I’m not totally sure yet.<\/p>\n

I also realised today that I had forgotten to photograph my new tool for becoming a more consistent spinner. I have been making myself little record cards, which I think I shall do for any project over about 100g. The idea being that I write down what I am doing and attach a sample to the card and then I can keep comparing the stuff I am spinning to my sample. It usually takes me months and months to actually finish things, so I thought this would be a good memory jogger.<\/p>\n

So here we have my first two sample cards:<\/p>\n

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At the top I have information on what the fibre is, where I got it from and what ratio I am using on my wheel. Then there is a sample of the single, a sample of the plied yarn, and at the bottom the plied yarn after it has been washed.<\/p>\n

The only problem I have had so far has been finding suitable record cards. The ones I bought are a bit flimsy and more paper-like than card-like. For these two sample cards I have created my own laminate by sticking three layers of record cards together to make something a bit more rigid. It has worked ok but is not ideal. I think next I might try finding some card and cutting it down to a reasonable size.<\/p>\n

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