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My fleece and spindles arrived!

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Tour de Fleece 2024 Day 3 - Finished off the Pumpkin Spice Latte spindle last night after finding my compression gloves for the arthritis. Spent a few hours spinning up some undyed Corriedale wool to pair up with it when I ply them. Hopefully will finish the bobbin tomorrow - using it as the last practice on the wheel before I break out my Big Project wool!

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Tour de Fleece 2024 - Day 6 - Spent most of the day having to work, but finally found an hour or so to do some spinning. Decided to pull out something fun to work on, so I pulled out my Sapphire Skies (which I got from the same place as the Pumpkin Spice Latte rovings). I love this blue so much! I've spun it up before and have never been disappointed by it.

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Tour de Fleece - Day 11 - so the flyer was the wrong one after all. Finally located one that will work and ordered it, prepped this one to return, and got back to bobbin #3 of Sapphire Skies. Only had about 1.5 hours or so to spin before I had to start work stuff (beginning of the month is always super busy!) but my supervisor kept me on track!

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Tour de Fleece 2024 day 2: working out much more consistently today. I also found another bag of rovings in this colorway, so I may be at this a while! lol. Ultimately, I will be switching to the rovings I bought specifically for this year's TdF, but since this is my first time spinning on my wheel, I wanted to practice on something else. This is what I will switch over to once the Pumpkin Latte is done:

A Song of Wool and Silk: Not Today by Paradise Fibers.

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Tour de Fleece 2024 - Day 8 - Found two more regular sized bobbins tucked away in with my e-spinner! So, started a second bobbin of blue today. Spent about 4 hours spinning today after finishing up some beginning of the month work stuff. Still plenty more to spin, so hopefully will have three regular bobbins filled with blue by Monday or Tuesday...just in time for the new flyer to arrive.

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Tour de Fleece 2024 - Day 21

Sometime over the next week or two (maybe after I've finished up the plying of all the yarns, maybe before) I'll share a pic of all the spinning from this year's Tour de Fleece, but for now I ended it with plying the last of the two bobbins I started yesterday. BARELY fit onto the bobbin, too. I'm amazed at just how much yarn I got out of this for just one set of bobbins! It's going to be an amazing amount of yarn to play with over winter!

But for now - I did it! (and I now remember why I usually save my spinning for Tour de Fleece - once a year is a LOT! lol.

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Tour de Fleece 2024 - Day 20

Top left - finished the first bobbin of plying color for the Big Project (tm) yarn

Top right - started bobbin two

Bottom - Couldn't wait to try plying them together, so here we go. This is HALF of each bobbin (plying color and Big Project bobbin) and overfilled a bobbin when plying.

Gotta say, I do love the color match! It's going to end up as a LOT of yarn, too. Not sure yet what I'll make from it - probably will wait to see just how much I end up with - but oh my, is it going to be nice!

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Tour de Fleece 2024 - Day 18

Top picture: Finished spinning up the Big Project (tm) fleece today.

Lower left picture: Big Project (tm) fleece with the two options I ordered as possibilities for plying.

Lower right picture: Decided to try the lighter camel color and started to spin it up.

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Tour de Fleece 2024 - Day 12

Finished spinning up the blue while watching Critical Role tonight.

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Tour de Fleece - Day 10 - Finished the second bobbin of blue and started the last one (there's about 6.5 rovings left or so). Should be receiving the new flyer and bobbins today, though I have a sneaky suspicion that it's not going to work with my wheel. If that's the case, I'll switch over to the e-spinner for the Big Project and also start plying the Pumpkin Latte and Sapphire skies to free up the regular sized ones. Either way, I have a plan to move forward.

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Tour de Fleece 2024 - Day 16

After all of the spinning I did yesterday (some 6-8 hours, I realize now), I only managed about two hours today before my wrist and thumb started acting up. So, rather than push things too far, I called it a day. I'm nearly halfway through this bobbin and still plenty of fleece left to go. I'm thinking I should end up with 2.5-3 full bobbins by the end of this. A quick look at the tracking info on the fleece assures me it should be here by the end of the week, which should time out just about right. Once it's here, I'll spin that up. Looks like that might get me to the end of the TdF this year, so plying will happen post-TdF.

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Tour de Fleece 2023, Day 9

So, last year I treated myself to three hand carved/decorated spindles for my birthday and yesterday I dug them up. Forgot I'd started spinning the light green (Fjord Heather). Most of what's on that spindle I've done today. The other two spindles are currently empty, which is good because I'm gonna need them! lol Anyway, having a bit of a change up from the red and indigo with the fjord today and it's turning out lovely. (small one is a 2" spindle, I believe, and the larger ones are 2 3/4")

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Tour de Fleece 2023 - Day 21

Decided to start spinning up some more of this lovely green so I have enough to make a cowl or some fingerless mitts or maybe even a hat. It's too good not to use!

Two more days to go. Hoping to get enough spun up between today and tomorrow that I can ply it on Sunday as a way to end my Tour de Fleece this year!

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Tour de Fleece 2023 - Final Day

While looking through my fleece and spindles the yesterday seeking out more of the lighter green (and not finding it), I came across the spindle with the lighter blue here. I started it during TdF22 last year, but set it aside to finish the Starry Night spin I came across. Ended up finishing this one just after TdF finished then set it aside. It got tucked away during the move and I never spun up a second spindle to ply it with.

Enter the slightly darker blue next to it which I ordered a few months back. It's actually a really good match for one of the shades in the lighter one, so I'm now spinning it up to ply with it. Again, will finish after TdF is officially finished, but oh man, I can't pass this one up. Too good of a match! (plus, I have to wait on green fleece lol) So, for now, I'm working on this today. I'll try to do a wrap up post with a picture of everything I accomplished this year either later today or tomorrow. Suffice to say, despite the trouble with the e-spinner, I'm quite pleased with my results!

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Tour de Fleece 2023 - Day 9 Revised

Got into a spinning groove and finished off the smaller spindle then started up on a second one. Got quite a bit done today. Feels good.