#tdf 2022

[roglaert]

Wout's 10 stage victories in the Tour de France ❤️

📸 teamvisma_leaseabike

[nostalgia-is-liar]

[brahmsthirdracket]

this is adorable

[photogal777]

The Ham has an innie :) (2022 TdF after Stage 21 win in Paris) 📸Mr. Pinko

[itttsarkanyokvannak]

Ez meg pont egy éve 🥺

[saltsparkle]

My TdF 2022 family photo.

I tried to do something different for each one this year, and this is the first year I've managed to finish four(!!!) skeins -- all from Three Waters Farm fiber.

From left to right: Coy & Cunning, ~280 yards spun in a 1:2 fractal 2 ply. Targhee. Autumn Sunset, ~400ish yards spun as a single. Finn. Quintessence, ~240 yards split four times and spun end to end, 2 ply. Falkland. Radiance, ~240 yards split up and spun as a gradient, 2 ply. Finn.

The hardest one was Autumn Sunset, I'd never spun just singles and you can see how overspun it is. It's probably the one I'm the most unhappy with, but it was mostly a practice skein.

Radiance is going to be used in a Nightshift shawl that I'm eventually going to start working on.

The other ones are tbd for projects.

I hope everybody had a good tour, see y'all next year!

@a-tour-de-fleece

[tyrhinosaurus]

Tour de Fleece days 5,6 and 10?

I've been getting distracted with other projects and life happening, but have spun this pretty purple and yellow colorway, and we finally had a decent break from rain here, so whacked it and the coral one

[dreamsinombre]

My spinning journey continues, and I think I'm starting to get the feel for how drafting works more and more. After getting some advice that indicated the roving I've been working with (the Malabrigo Nube) might be making drafting harder for myself, I switched over to a merino/camel blend and was amazed at how much easier drafting suddenly became. I felt like I was understanding it and getting a feel for it so much more that I went back and tackled the remaining two-thirds of my final Malabrigo Nube roving, which I then plied with the merino/camel. It's… actually still drying after a whole day and some change.

But! I also plied that single ply of Malabrigo Glitter with the first third of that last Nube roving—Hojas colorway. That has dried and it might be my new favorite yarn? It turned out to be one of my absolute favorite color palettes: blues and terra cottas.

It's also my most "proper" looking yarn to date, and I am very pleased with it—just wish I had more!

The Malabrigo/merino/camel 2-ply should be dried tomorrow, and I'll snag pictures of it then. I'm also trying to be more cognizant and take pictures of at least some of the various stages as I seem to be spinning quite regularly for the time being now, so I will have more updates as more yarn gets plied. It's a bit of a shell game with only four bobbins, but I'm making it work.