Tour de Fleece 09 and other excuses to spin way to much

Well following a tweet from Kraftkoala advising it was not too late to start the Tour de Fleece challenge on Ravelry, I joined the group.

Several help requests later, from the Wildcraft Woollies group about posting photo's and I was off.












This is my first three days of the tour but has resulted in the quickest skein ever made by me.














The original wool was a BFL roving hand-dyed in my experimental stage. As the results were patchy I decided to drum card this with some bamboo I had dyed one colour - again my first attempt at Procion dyes.













I managed to spin and ply this on Day 3 + 4 to the tune of Kasbian's Where did all the love go? Try to spin to Fast Fuse if you dare! By Day 5 I had a proper skein yay!














I've already started on my next one which is one of Krafty Koala's batts I bought last week. It is a merino Cashmere blend and full of colour from light to dark. I think I might navajo ply it as this will keep the colour bands together.

I have a project already lined up for all these spun skeins - Skein Queen's, zig zag blanket. Better get cracking.