Kathryn's Brain: Fiber Arts Friday: Tour de Fleece, 2019

As I discussed last time, I did a crazy thing and joined two teams.... Chiengora and SE2SE.

Since I was on the road for most of this tour, I decided to do a weekly summary.... hopefully you haven't missed my daily progress log. ;-)

Week 1: July 6 - July 12

7 days of spinning.

I had more time than I expected for spinning before the TdF started, so I had finished the Black Welsh Mountain singles prior to the Tour and I plied all but 1/4 oz this week for SE2SE.

Plied Black Welsh Mountain

I also spent at least 15 minutes each day spindling Tibetan Mastiff.

Friday, July 12th was the first Challenge Day. I didn't have any specific challenges planned for this year, so I spent a little time doing free-spindling. I'm primarily a park-and-draft spindler, so I would like to practice this more... of course my yarn is nicer when I park-and-draft. ;-)

1/8 oz of Tibetan Mastiff

Progress as of Friday: July 12:
Tibetan Mastiff (TM): 1/8 oz
Black Welsh Mountain (BWM): 5 oz plied
Time Spent: 7 days of spinning at least 15 minutes each
Challenge: 1 completed

Week 2: July 13 - July 19

6 days of spinning.

Tuesday, July 16th was the first Rest Day, which I did not observe. I had two very long work days planned, and there was a high risk I wasn't going to be able to spin on these days. But I was able to spin every day this week, and had a couple of days that were closer to 30 minutes.

As a result, I added 3/8 oz to my Tibetan Mastiff spindle.

1/2 oz of Tibetan Mastiff

After completing the Black Welsh Mountain from last week, I started spinning my Jacob-American sample on Saturday and was able to complete 7/8 oz.

7/8 oz of Jacob-American

Progress as of Friday, July 19:
Tibetan Mastiff (TM): +3/8 = 1/2 oz
Black Welsh Mountain (BWM): 4 7/8 oz plied, washed and dried
Jacob-American: 7/8 oz
Challenges: 1 completed
Rest Days: not observed
Days Missed: 0 (net +1)

Week 3: July 20 - July 26

6 days of spinning.

Monday, July 22nd was the second Rest Day. - which I did observe

Thursday, July 25th was the second Challenge Day - I did not intend to observe, but Ruby the cat was so excited to have me home that she rubbed her face all over my face and arms while I was spindling, so I think that counts. ;-)

I also worked a little on the Jacob I started the week before.

Week 4: July 27 - July 28

2 days of spinning.

I was out of town for a family event over the last 2 days of the tour. I thought I might be able to get some quiet spinning time in before everyone else work up, but there are a lot of earlier risers in my extended family. :-)

So I completed my 15 minutes each day... and one of the littlest cousins knew what I was doing. He told me where he learned about it, but did not want to try it. :-)