Tour De Fleece Update Week Two

It is week two of Tour De Fleece.....
I have been updating  in Spin City UK Ravelry Group

A little update from day seven.....
I finished spinning the white Merino and transferred it from my drop spindle to a handmade bobbin!

White Merino on a handmade bobbin

I handspun some fibre before the Tour De Fleece and transferred them onto a handmade bobbin.....
And a handmade Lazy Kate.....

From left to right: White Merino, Dark Brown/Black Finsheep and Hand Dyed Variegated Merino 

I am planning on spinning this next.....

Day Eight of Tour De Fleece

This is what I am planning on spinning on day eight.....

Day Eight and Nine of Tour De Fleece

Day Ten, Eleven and Day Twelve of Tour De Fleece

Day Thirteen of Tour De Fleece

Day Fourteen of Tour De Fleece

I did not take a photo of my full spindle after spinning the fibre batt.  I am going to transfer the single spun yarn onto a bobbin and I think I am going to 2 ply this.
I did not get much spinning done this week as I would like to have done, but at least I am spinning everyday.

Tour De Fleece Update Week One

Tour De Fleece started on Saturday 5th July 2014 and I decided to start with this beautiful white Merino Roving that I got from SpinCityUK

Day one 25g White Merino Roving 

I am trying to spin this white merino as thin and consistent as I can on my drop spindle.....

Day one of Tour De Fleece

This is what I spun on day one of Tour De Fleece.....
I didn't spin that much, I managed to spin for 1 hour on day one.

Day Two hand spun white merino on my wooden drop spindle

 Still plenty of the white merino roving left to spin!

Day Two of Tour De Fleece

This is what I had planned to spin for day two.....

Day Two This is what I am planning to hand spin for day two

I know there is not alot of merino roving there to spin, I only had an hour to spin on day two.....

 And this is what I have spun so far.....

Two day's worth of spinning for me.

Still a bit of the white merino left to spin.

Day Three of Tour De Fleece

This is what I am planning on spinning on day three.

Day three this is what I am spinning White Merino Roving

 I am still spinning the white Merino roving.....
This is what I have hand spun today.....

Day Four of Tour De Fleece

Not much difference from day 3

I did not do much spinning today.....
I only did 10 mins of spinning......

 Day Five of Tour De Fleece

Still spinning white merino roving.....
Not getting as much time to spin as I wanted to spin.....
Again I only managed 10 mins of spinning today

Day Six of Tour De Fleece

Slowly my spindle is getting full of handspun yarn!

 I was hoping to more spinning done today, but this is what I did for day 6.

Day Seven of Tour De Fleece

Day seven and I still have a bit of white merino roving to spin!

Again I did not get much spinning done today.
I am spinning everyday but I am not spinning for as long as I would like to on the Tour De Fleece.  Hoping next week will be a better and I will be able to get alot more spinning done!

I'm Ready for Tour De Fleece 2014!

I only recently found out about the Tour De Fleece, so this year is my first year that I am joining the Tour De Fleece on Ravelry.  For those of you that do not know about Tour De Fleece, it is simple it is to challenge yourself, spin and have fun!  Here is a link to the guidelines on Ravelry.

Tour De Fleece starts on Saturday 5th July to Sunday 27th July 2014.
 Rest days are on Tuesday 15th July and Monday 21st July .
Challenge day is on Saturday 19th July, spin something challenging on challenge day.
Wear yellow on Sunday 27th July to announce victory.
Join a group on Ravelry if you wish.




I joined the Rookies group for anyone doing the Tour De Fleece for the first time.   I do not have a spinning wheel, so I will be using my drop spindle I bought from Louise's shop on Etsy SpinCityUK.
The fibre that I will be using will be a variety of fibre that was part of the Luxury Drop Spindle Kit  there is 150g of fibre in this kit and I also have a custom luxury drop Spindle Kit that has another 150g of fibre. My challenge on challenge day is to spin as much as I can on that day.

A quick look at  my fibres that I want to spin during Tour De Fleece

White Merino Roving 50g

 

Green Merino 25g

Hand Carded Batt 50g

Hand Carded Batts 100g

   

Merino Roving 50g and Fire Star 20g

Merino Roving and Fire Star

Custom Hand Carded Batt 100g

I will do an update post on how I am getting on.

Are you taking part in the Tour De Fleece?
What are you spinning?
What is your challenge?