Fiber Arts Friday: Tour de Fleece, 2025 - part 3

For Part 3 - - My goal this week is to continue to spin for the Joy of it.

TdF Stage 7 - Friday, July 11

No Spinning today.

Having tweaked my back last Thursday morning, I decided to let it rest one more day.

TdF Stage 8 - Saturday, July 12

Tibetan Mastiff:

• Time Spent: 14 minutes
• How I felt:  I was feeling significantly better this morning.  Spinning makes me happy.

TdF Stage 9 - Sunday, July 13

No Spinning today.

TdF Stage 10 - Monday, July 14 - Challenge Day

Tibetan Mastiff:

• Time Spent: 10 minutes
• How I felt: My brain and day was full.  I have one more major thing to get done today, but decided to spin for about 10 minutes to give my brain a rest...  So today, my challenge was just to spin.  :-)

TdF  - Tuesday, July 15 - Rest Day

Tibetan Mastiff: 

• Time Spent: 18 minutes
• How I felt:  While today was supposed to be a Rest Day, it was nice have a break in the middle of the day that allowed for a bit of spinning.

TdF Stage 11 - Wednesday, July 16

Tibetan Mastiff:

• Time Spent: 27 minutes
• How I felt:  After several extremely full days, today was more relaxed and I was able to spin some over the afternoon.  Feels nice.

TdF Stage 12 - Thursday, July 17

Tibetan Mastiff:

• Time Spent: 24 minutes
• How I felt:  It was nice to spin while listening to the news and not feel rushed for other things that must be done today.

Weekly Wrap-up:

• Days Spent:  5 of 6 days + 5 of 6 days = 10 of 12 days thus far
• Time Spent: 137 minutes (2:17) + 93 minutes (1:33) = 3 hrs 50 minutes thus far
• Overall Feeling:  I have started to wonder how much I’ve spun…. and since I didn’t weigh the prepared fiber, nor have I weighed the bobbin I’m using, nor have I kept track of how many balls of roving I’ve completed, I really don’t know. Apparently I took myself seriously when I embarked upon this year being about fun and not task completion.  This is good for me.  But it also means that my type-A self is starting to get itchy about the county fair deadline and the fact that each skein must be at least 2 ounces in order to be entered. sigh.

Happy Fiber Arts Friday!

Fiber Arts Friday: Tour de Fleece, 2025 - part 2

For Part 2 - - My goal this week is to spin for the Joy of it.... let's see how it goes.

TdF Stage 1 - Saturday, July 5

Tibetan Mastiff:

• Time Spent: 32 minutes
• How I felt: I almost forgot that today is Saturday and the beginning of the TdF, but I am feeling happy and hopeful after yesterday's Independence Day Parade.  The support for the Dems was significantly more than the others.

TdF Stage 2 - Sunday, July 6

Tibetan Mastiff:

• Time Spent: 21 minutes
• How I felt: I felt distracted today with too many things to do this morning.

TdF Stage 3 - Monday, July 7

Tibetan Mastiff:

• Time Spent: 16 minutes
• How I felt: I was feeling anxious, with a lot of things on my To Do List for today, but I decided to spin anyway... and to spin until my mind calmed down.  It fought me, but we did get there... it took about 15 minutes.

TdF Stage 4 - Tuesday, July 8

Tibetan Mastiff:

• Time Spent: 54 minutes
• How I felt: Theoretically, my Internet has been fixed…. I did get some spinning done since I could not accomplish any internet-y things while the Tech was working on our service.  It was nice to spin, knowing there wasn’t anything else I should be doing.   Also, my bobbin is fully covered now, which always makes me happy.

TdF Stage 5 - Wednesday, July 9

Tibetan Mastiff:

• Time Spent:  14 minutes
• How I felt:  What a day.  It feels like there's been a sea change and the day has been full because of it.  I didn't get to spinning until about 8:30pm.

TdF Stage 6 - Thursday, July 10

No Spinning today.

I tweaked my back in the morning and followed it up with far too many meetings that required me to sit for most of the day.  Which meant that by the end of the day, my back was far too tight to treadle my wheel.  sigh.

Hopefully I'm feeling better tomorrow. 

Weekly Wrap-up:

• Days Spent:  5 of 6 days
• Time Spent: 137 minutes (2 hrs 17 minutes)
• Overall Feeling:  I'm having fun and while I didn't spin yesterday, I've decided it doesn't really matter.

Happy Fiber Arts Friday!

Fiber Arts Friday: Tour de Fleece, 2025

I started thinking about my upcoming Tour de Fleece plans since March.  At that time I wanted to spin for my long-term chiengora project, but realized I had no fiber ready for spinning.  *sigh*

I want this year's TdF to be more about playing and mental rest than accomplishing a daily task that needs to be squeezed in between other work... aka this Type A personality has learned that sometimes the "fun" things should be just about having fun... and for me, spinning has been more about work than fun over the last few years.

So my goals for this year are to spin every day... but only for the joy of spinning.  I may track time spent, but I don't intend to have any specific time-spent goals or number of skeins completed goals... We'll see how that goes.  ;-)

Fortunately I have been able to spend some time over the last couple of weeks to prepare a few batts of Tibetan Mastiff for spinning... so at least I can get started.  :-)

Per usual, I am spinning with the Chiengora Group.

Tour de Fleece (TdF): This year, the Tour de France starts on
Saturday, July 05, 2025 and runs until Sunday, July 27, 2025

Tour de Fleece Femmes (TdFF): We will also spin along with the Tour’s women’s race, Tour de France Femmes, which start on Saturday, July 26, 2025 and runs until Sunday, August 8, 2025

• Spinning Days: TdF Saturday, July 05 through Sunday, July 27. TdFF Saturday, July 26 through Sunday, August 8.

• Rest Days: Tuesday, July 15 and Monday, July 21.

• Challenge Days: Spin something challenging on the challenge days (or pick your own Challenge Day to suit your needs and schedule). TdF: The first one is Stage 10, on Monday, July 14. The second is Stage 15, on Sunday, July 20. TdFF: Saturday, July 21.

It is nice to see the TdFF being a longer race this year.... 14 days, instead of 8.

Happy Fiber Arts Friday!  The game starts tomorrow.