Finished the skein of the tweed fiber called Very Berry Color Pop, it is South American Wool & Viscose bits Blend combed top by Camaj Fiber Arts , I have added a link to this fiber but it’s for 1lb of fiber for a pre-order. Her pre-orders are usually a very good price because she’s pre-ordering bulk. I got mine when it was available in 4 oz quantities. She has a lot of nice fiber. This skein apparently turned out to be a bulky, it is 138 yards, 4.25 oz. Wonder if there is enough for a hat?

The next fiber is called Beach Party, a Corriedale/nylon blend from a surprise fiber box I get monthly from Paradise Fibers , they have a lot of nice fibers and yarn and other knitting and fiber things :). This should be a lighter weight yarn when spun up, it doesn’t show and I wish you see the glittery fibers blended into it and the fiber is a darker blue than it appears, it’s very pretty. You can find this color blend available on their website now, I think it was in their May fiber box,. I will start this today or tomorrow. Tomorrow is the last day of the Tour de Fleece and I won’t finish this before the end but I will keep spinning it anyway :).

I’m happy to have finished my last years skein and got one full skein done this year and started another during the Tour de Fleece. All in all I’ll take this as a win!

I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and I hope you accomplish all the things your have planned.

Plied!! I need to take it off on my niddy noddy and skein it up so I can wash it and set the twist. I love the tweed! Will post a picture when it is skeined and drys.

I barely got it on the bobbin, had a little left over on one bobbin, more practice with chain plying :P. This is either a heavy worsted or light bulky, will see when it’s dry. 🙂

I took an antihistamine and fell asleep early the 10th, so I will call that “my bicycle broke day” lol, was suppose to be a rest day anyway, guess my body said yep. On the 11th I decided I was going to try to use up the little bit of singles on one of the bobbins from the last skien of yarn because I was going to need that bobbin for plying and decided to try a chain ply, something I had never done. I watched someone on YouTube and thought ok I can do that. When I put the empty bobbin on somehow I didn’t get my brake band on the part it needed to be on and the yarn wasn’t taking up on the bobbin, ugh. I was frustrated so I put it down and didn’t get back to it. Decided to look over the wheel on the 12th and after adjusting some other things, I noticed the break band, oh my gosh, problem solved!! I tried the chain play, not quite as easy as it looks but I managed to get most of that single plied on the other bobbin with the chain ply until it broke with about 1 yard left. I thought ok, no problem, I’m happy with what I got, even tho it’s a bit over spun with the chain ply, I’ll keep practicing with the left overs on future bobbins until I get better. Notice in the first picture there is no marling of the yarn :). When you chain ply you get same color on same color except sometimes at the end and beginning of each color for a short distance. So new technique learned! Today I went ahead and started spinning the 2nd bobbin, see picture.

Ok, I did spin on day 7, just didn’t post because I didn’t spin much, guess I will be spinning on their rest day on the 10th :P. I have a little bit more to spin on this first bobbin, then I will start the 2nd bobbin. If I have weighed the fiber out correctly and my spinning is consistent, my 2nd bobbin should be equally as full and that, I think, will be a problem when I ply it on the 3rd bobbin, because plying two near full bobbins will be too much yarn to fit on it. I guess that will mean 2 skeins, one larger than the other. I might just have to invest in a large bobbin and the large flyer that goes with it. Won’t be cheap, it won’t be here for this year’s Tour de Fleece and I don’t spin a lot of bulky type of yarns but if I am going to do it occasionally it’s best to have one.