Friday Fluff: TdF Week 1

 

The big babysitting adventure takes a couple of days out of my Tour quota but I did take my spindles along and managed to get a bit more of that Merino that I've been working on done. My goal is to finish it this year and I'm getting close. 

The Merino I spun from the little nests I make on the drum carder is ready for plying. 

I've got one more nest to spin of the chinook fiber and then it will be ready for plying too.

I've made all these little nests out of some Merino pencil roving to spin on the support spindle. I'm getting close to needing a wind off. 

My poor little Spindolyn doesn't see a lot of action. I pick it up every time I sit down to watch the Tour but spinning cotton is tedious and slow so I don't get very far. It's the spinning equivalent of cycling up a steep hill I suppose. 

The Corriedale I had planned to card and spin this year is still sitting here waiting for me to fix the drum carder. I'm waiting on the poly cord I need. I've ordered two different ones from two different vendors since I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to working on these things. The one that looks most like the one I'm replacing will be the winner-I hope.