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Tour De Fleece 2026!!!

Time for Tour de Fleece again! And let's hope that this time I manage to avoid major injury, unlike last year. 🙏

I'm also in the process of moving, so my lovely Louet S10, Jeanne de Louet, will be resting this year. I'll be exclusively doing spindle spinning for this Tour de Fleece. I found my Jeanne so soon after I started spinning that I really haven't done a whole helluva lot of spindle spinning.

My main goal again this year is to spin for at least 5 minutes a day. I'm also going to do what I did last year and try to post every other day, but that may or may not happen with the moving.

I'm going to start off by working on the fiber that is currently on my drop spindle, a braid from FatCatKnits on Etsy called Ode to Joy. It is 18.5 micron Merino combed top and the colorway is a mirror, so I've split it in half to do a 2 ply. Or maybe chain ply each? 🤔 we shall see how I feel when I get to that point.

From what ive done on it so far it spins up super fine. Like, this might actually end up as my first laceweight yarn even after plying.

Other than working my way through that braid, I dont have any specific plans. I do have a few ounces of merino in various colorways from Mohairandmore that I might try if I finish the Ode braid before I move.

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Finished object Friday!!! I actually finished these Wednesday and am so pleased with them! I"ve been knitting theses Sunday Swing Socks by Kristel Nyberg since may of last year, but between tour de fleece 2025, my broken arm, and Christmas chaos time at work it sat in second sock hell for about 7 of those months.

This is where I stopped in late June and didn't pick up until early January.

And here they are completed! I used 148 yards of the speckled pink Bay Breeze by Bad Sheep yarn that I got at my LYS Dixie Knits, and 82 yards of the yellow tonal Yellow Day Lilies by the Copper Corgi Fiber Studio that I got at the Smoky Mountain Spinnery in Gatlinburg Tennessee.

They are loose on me even after blocking so I probably could have knit the small size instead of the medium, but the stitch definition is lovely and they are comfy. Perfect springtime house socks!

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I bought this 6 oz braid of Cloverfield 100% Merino from DivineDyeWorks last year and I finished spinning it earlier this month.

I also had some 100% Merino from Mohairandmore in Conifer and Hazelnut. The dark green was spun on a drop spindle and was some of the first "good" yarn i ever made! The other 2 were spun on my Louet S10 wheel.

I decided to use my inkle loom and see if I could weave enough of it to make a decent sized strip of fabric and turn it into a skinny infinity scarf. I used a little 4 dent rigid heddle that I had to warp with instead of using heddle ties.

So far its going good. I've woven about 17 inches at 3 inches wide and so far the yarn is holding up really well for the warp. Im going to alternate 10 inches of Cloverfield with 5 inches of Conifer or Hazelnut alternating.

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I've been plugging away on my Honeycomb Ten stitch blanket lately when I'm sitting in my car before work. And I finally made it through the 1st of the Caron Simply Soft Speckle Honeycomb skeins today. 🎉🧶🎉

I mainly want to use up the 2 skeins of the Bone colorway I have so I will probably have to use 3 of my Honeycomb skeins to match up. The speckled is about 100 yards less than the solid colorway.

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The crafting gods have struck me again. I did not NEED a new hobby...but apparently I've been assigned inkle weaving as my newest shiny. I was given a brand new Schacht Inkle Loom as a gift, and now I have been semi-distracted from my knitting.

I've spent the last week doing a headfirst dive in and have started on a basic two color pattern in cream and Wasabi green crochet cotton from the stash.

My tension isn't super even for the edges, but it's honestly going a lot better than I was expecting it to. Plus, it only took me 2 hours to warp it, and part of that was being distracted back to the knitting.

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Sample floof # 3 is a Blue-faced Leicester wool in a natural colored blend of creamy white, light Grey, and a little brown from FiberFate on etsy.

It was very, very soft as a fiber and drafted smoothly. It was so blended that I didn't try to separate out the colors, so it ended up barber poling as I spun which is pretty cute!

Finished plying it 3 months later after my broken arm healed up. Ended up being roughly 1400 inches or 39 yards of 2 ply yarn

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Sample floof #4- White Falkland wool.

Finished my wool sample spin that I started during Tour de fleece! I broke my arm and have been unable to do any spinning for months, but i finally got my casts off. Took an hour and 15 minutes to go from fluff to fully plied yarn for this Falkland wool. It ended up being roughly 735 inches or almost 20.5 yards of 2 ply yarn.

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Knitting Lacy Business by Ambah O'Brien using Darjeeling Tea by Badsheepyarn and Blue Bachelor Buttons by The Copper Corgi. The blue in both of these yarns practically glows in the sunlight! I love how vivid and saturated the yarns are.

I was using these yarns for a Stonechurch shawl but I just wasn't feeling it and frogged it. I really hadn't worked on it for most of a year and it just wasn't clicking.

The Lacy Business pattern works really well with these yarns because its such a simple pattern. Garter stitch lets the variegated darjeeling shine and the eyelets break up the solidity of the blue tonal. Its also so simple that I can just coast through the pattern while watching YouTube or listening to a podcast. My favorite type of pattern!