Tour de fleece day 5

Today was another plying day. I navajo plied the BFL spingle from yesterday to get about 30m. It is a similar weight to the alpaca from the start of the tour so I might combine the two.

Close up shot

I have learnt some more with this project, in an attempt to avoid overspinning and get a soft squishy yarn some bits were underspun. This caused a few problems with the plying as navajo plying needs a little extra robustness in the single so that it can cope with being pulled through itself. There were a few breaks in the single because of this but it all held together ok in the end.

I did some other plying too, but since the singles were spun ages ago I am not counting them as part of the tour, they will get a photo later on.

Tour de Fleece day four

Today I have been spinning sheep instead of alpaca. I started preping some Humbug Bluefaced Leicester last night, dividing a short fat length of roving into long thin bits in an attempt to get something a bit like pencil roving.

This was going to be one of my sample fibres to be spindle spun and combined with the other samples in a big project, but I had more of it than I realised and it was so soft and lovely I spun it a little thicker than intended and will navajo ply it.

There's about 50g, I don't know what it will be yet, will have to weigh it and get a WPI measurement when it is plyed and washed.

The tour de fleece is going well, I am really enjoying having a reason to do daily spinning but am not doing so well keeping up with all the forum posts people put up. There is enough spinning eye candy in them to keep me entertained until next year's tour!