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I finally measured all the skeins that I completed over the last few months during school term time. There is a lot of yardage here.
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I bought myself a rotating spindle stand from Kravelli on etsy to better store my spindle collection. Only my drop spindles don’t fit in it, so those will remain in the pebble filled jar.
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Finished off my competition yarn I’m planning to enter into the 2024 Royal Easter Show. I tried really hard to spin as evenly and finely as possible, so I’m very happy with how this turned out.
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Finally finished the impromptu b&w yarn project. This started out as just learning support spindling with random fibre & turned into a mission for pretty yarns. Skeins are 4ply worsted weight stricken white scandi, black welsh, & ‘Licorice’ (striken white scandi/black welsh) wool. These yarns are destined to become a knit triangle shawl.
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Conclusion of my Tour de Fleece 2023 journey. Over the 3 week period (mens race) I spun & plied a skein each of black welsh & white scandi. I finished the last single of my competition yarn & plied that. I completely finished all singles for 2 skeins of blue merino/alpaca. I filled my tahkli…
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Completed measuring and skeining all the spins from the last few months. There are hundreds of yards/meters of yarn here. My absolute favourite is merino/alpaca/camel/silk blend as it’s like touching a cloud.
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I’m doing TDF (Tour de Fleece) this year. My goals are tiny; simply finishing off singles for project spins with anything else, being that plying/additional spins, being an added bonus. Whilst holidaying in the hinterland last week, I completed one of my goals of finishing off the last single for my Easter Show competition yarn,…
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All but 3 of my regular working spindles are full, & I don’t have any more storage space to keep going. So every one now has to be pulled off & processed into skeins.