Tour de Fleece Update and Weather

/ LDSVenus

1st picture is my progress on the 50/50 camel/red Eri silk for days 16 – 18. This is spinning faster than I thought, I’m around 1/2 finished on the 1st bobbin. Because the silk is very slippery, even tho the camel being soft and short would normally require a very short draw to spin, the length and slippery nature of the silk allows me to draw it out more than a short draw but not a long draw, so it is going faster than I estimated. I love the softness of the fiber as I spin it. I’m trying to not let it be very thin, tho it would be easy to do that, because this is a gift for my previous sister in law, who I feel pretty close to. She has a medical disorder that makes it harder now with tremors to handle smaller things, so I thought if this yarn is more of a heavy fingering or light sport weight maybe she could still knit something with it, and if not, she can just feel the softness of this fiber, which is amazing. I will definitely have to get more of this fiber when Camaj Fiber Arts gets more in! Post Script, my ophthalmologist loved the skein of yarn and said she had had a very hard last couple of days and that this skein of yarn had just made her day! Giving is a blessing for the receiver and the giver :).

Well today was very nice in the upper middle 80’s and less humidity, however you can see where our weather is headed starting tomorrow though next Tuesday. The blue picture is the normal temps and the red one is with the heat index (the dew point and humidity level will be high.) I will be staying inside most of the time. Sunday I will go to church but it’s an air conditioned building and I have a/c in the car so I should be ok :P. Monday however, I’m not going anywhere. August is normally our hottest month of the year, so I shudder to think what next month will be like. Well actually I can imagine, 2 years ago when my daughter had an outdoor wedding in August, it was 118 with the heat index (that’s abnormally and obnoxiously hot for here), yeah, everyone was melting! Told her if I melted she could pick me up with a stick and a spoon and carry me inside to the reception :P. Everyone stay safe!!

14 thoughts on “Tour de Fleece Update and Weather”

  1. I’ve found when I have spun baby camel and tussah silk it feels softest, when worn, if it’s a heavy DK to Aran weight. You’ve mentioned buying some more and I’d encourage thicker. I’ve spun it from lace weight to chunky and I suspect the camel and eri combo you have may be very similar. Stay safe, those temps sound hideous.

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    • It’s hard to spin it thicker, it’s taking some doing to get the singles thick enough to have a sport weight ply!!! How did you manage thicker? I’m not putting a lot of spin in it, so I’m hoping it will fluffy up to be soft, because it sure is soft going through my fingers!!! I definitely want to spin this again tho, probably be easier the more I spin it, it sure wants to be thin!!!

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  2. So awesome that your skein made someone feel good!! There’s no feeling like it. 🙂 The camel/Eri yarn’s looking so pretty–I love that color. I remember you mentioning the super-hot wedding a while back too–hope this year’s cooler, but if not, limiting yourself to AC environments does seem like the best you can do. Stay cool! 🙂

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  3. What wonderful timing for gifting that yarn!! God sure is good!

    Your new spin looks so beautiful! And wow, you’re really spinning right through it!

    Your heat and humidity are just gonna be awful the next few days, it is miserable here, but not that bad! Thank Heaven for AC this summer! I feel badly for the alpaca, your son must be having a time keeping them cool.

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    • My son has huge fans in the big barn (the doors are always open so they can come and go as they like) and he also uses a sprinkler and splash pad in the pasture close to the barn so they can get wet to keep cool, plus they were shorn in May so their fiber isn’t that long yet :). He also has a fan in the smaller barn for the chickens too :). Like you I’m very grateful for the A/C!!! I still want to hug the inventor, what a blessing that invention was! My allergies are awful today!!!

      There are only 2 more days of Tour de Fleece but I won’t be finished with the camel/silk by then, but I’ll keep plugging away on it. That fiber is soooo soft!

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      • What a bunch of spoiled chickens and alpaca! How blessed they are ❤

        2 days left??? That’s it? It went by so fast (for me!). It must be sheer joy as that fiber passes your hands!!!

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      • They are!! His whippets are spoiled too :P, but they are house dogs.

        I know it’s gone by fast for me too!!! It is, the rhythmic treadling and softness of the fiber as you spin is so peaceful!

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    • Honestly most of the yarn I spin is gifted as a skein or knit into gifts. I think the only thing I ever spun and knit into something for me was some yak that I spun, but I was a new spinner and I over spun it because it’s a really short fiber and didn’t know about the long draw for very short fibers, lol. Live and learn.

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  5. Your spinning sounds gorgeous — that camel/red Eri silk must feel amazing, and what a thoughtful gift for your sister-in-law. 💛 Glad your yarn brought a smile to your ophthalmologist too! That heat sounds brutal — definitely a good plan to stay cool and safe!

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    • Thank you, it is really soft!!!!! I was glad my eye dr liked it too, nothing sweeter than a gift some one loves! We are still hot, tho not in the 90’s but with the storms we’ve had it’s very humid, but hopefully in the next few weeks it will feel more like fall!!! I wish I could hug the man that invented the air conditioner, he’s loved here!!!

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