Le Grand Depart

 

I'm starting this year't Tour with a finish. The rainbow Merino/silk is finally done. I gave it all of my attention on Thursday and Friday. I'm very happy with it.

It started out as 4 ounces of Merino/Silk from Dicentra Designs in the Pelennor colorway. My experience with rainbow colored fiber is that it can turn into a muddy mess but the colors in this one stayed bright and clear. I can't wait to turn it into something. 

I also spent some time getting this fiber ready. It's from Three Water's Farm and it's a Falkland tonal set in the Old Stone House colorway. 

Since each color is a separate piece I split them all into halves and then half again. 

I'm going to spin them as a random stripe keeping it in the gradient order. 

The last thing I did was to split up one of the California Red batts. I'm ready. The wool is ready. It's off to Spain this morning for Stage One. Vive le Tour!