So Cadel Evans wins the tour and I limp across the finish line of the tour de fleece with head held over the handlebars of my spinning wheel. All my singles of the Moorlit Shetland Fleece are done. I am not fully plyed or wacked but I have singles.... and no more brown fluff, to card , pick vm out of and hold in my hot little hands. I am over the moon about Cadel and I think I am about my effort in the Tour but I am in that exhausted phase where I dont even want to think much about anything. YKWIM.
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Doing a run down of this years Tour I would definitely say it has been the year of brown where last year it was the year of purple. Most of what I spun was Brown in some shape or form.
- 500gms of Mocha Blue Faced Liester
- 1 kilogram of Moorlit Shetland Fleece
- 120 grams of Shetland braid.
While this year was an all British breeds tour de fleece the only break from brown tones was a contrasting blue tonal from the WonkyKnitter which I managed to spin up into a light fingering. I was trying for lace weight but it did not happen. In addition to the spinning, I have also been doing some knitting. How / When? No I have not managed to get my hands on the keys of the Tardis but I got a shawl done in that light coloured shetland from the WonkyKnitter.
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| Day 5 of the Tour de Fleece 2011. |
There were some heart stopping moments in the Tour de Fleece shawl project - the great rip back in the shawl from 12 pairs of central leaves to 6. Dont ask for the gory details but lets just say it involved an animal or two in this household and the knitting was just collateral damage. Then there was that race to the finish line between the edging and the amount of yarn left. It was measured at..... wait for it...37cm. That is like winning the time trial by a 100th of second. Currently the shawl is blocking and I am putting my feet up and icing my aching hands. Thoroughly planning to talk myself out of a major challenge next year.
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