I had a hard time fitting my spinning time in this year and properly participating with the Tour de Fleece, but I will keep spinning to get some skeins done that I had planned on spinning for that. I hate that life gets in the way sometimes with my knitting and spinning, which are my way to relax and get away from our chaotic world. I did finish this skein of yarn that I started spinning last September, see my Spinning a Tweed Yarn for more information on the fiber :P. This is 4 ozs and about 150 yards, it is a bulky yarn. It’s really hard to spin a thiner yarn with a fiber with lots of thicker viscose bits. I did go ahead and just do a 2 ply because a chain ply makes a 3 ply yarn and I knew it was already going to be thick and thin and bulky, so I decided the 2 ply would be better. I think the colors turned out nice and looking more like a speckled yarn because of the bits of tweed color :). This will be given to my Ophthalmologist at my next visit for her 18 month old daughter. Should make a nice bulky hat for her, lol should knit up really fast, and yes we do get very cold in the winter here :). She did my eye surgeries in Dec and is a knitter, so this is why I chose to spin a skein of yarn for her. If I had realized how thick the viscose bits for the tweedy look were, I would have chosen a different fiber to spin for a sport weight yarn for a little one.
I have been enjoying the cooler temps, but this will be short lived as we start ticking up to the upper 80’s by next week end and August, which is only about a week away, is our hottest month. Last year my daughter got married in August, on the hottest day of the year, outside, and with the heat index it was 118 F. ugh.
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