Tour de Fleece 2009: Forfeit

Well I has the best intentions and then life kicked in....

So I did not finish my challenge, but I learned many other things, so all is well.

In fact I did half.

Pretty ironic that the colorway I finished are the cool ones, considering that the temperatures are so high right now, I cant even touch wool...

I am knitting cotton, does not matter if it gets wet from my constantly drenched body or the dips every ten minutes in the ocean, I am staying cool....Almost.

Tour de Fleece 2009: Days 5 & 6

Was too tired yesterday do do much after work, less take pictures or blog, but did manage 1/2 of a repeat on "Rainy Day Ocean"

Then today finished the other 1/2,

The colorway is definitely cooler,

and there it is drying in the shade.

"Sunny Day Ocean" is finally dry, with all the moisture around it took a couple of days, and I noticed that the Alpaca/Silk blend is denser. It did bloom in a lovely way in the end.

First challenge finished and met, on to the warm garden colors tomorrow.

Tour de Fleece 2009: Day 4

Got home fairly early from work and managed to put in 2 hours of spinning!!!

Started on "Cloudy Day Ocean" color pathway, very appropriate, it has been pouring all day.

Goal met for today, 1 entire repeat of the colorway. This time I decided to vary the length of certain colors, partly for interest, partly as I realized that I have less of some...

Meanwhile DH got his new toy yesterday,

Just a little hop as it is raining... But spent time fixing some shipping damage, anyway more fun to come!!!

Tour de Fleece 2009: Day 3

Finished the bobbin today, went pretty well as I spun kind of random amount of each color.

Ready to wash picture with flash...
and in natural light which is quite extraordinary today as a tremendous thunder storm hit us and woke me up at 4:30am.

The hank is now drying in the bathroom, tomorrow work, less time to spin, but intend to start on "Ocean rainy day"... Stay tuned!!!

Tour de Fleece 2009: Days 1 and 2

After a very slow start, as in couldn't go near the wool yesterday I was so exhausted, I made up for it today and put 2 days worth in...

Anyway my challenge is to spin "Noro" out of alpaca silk blend that I dyed a few weeks ago. After reading about the "Noro" philosophy of color blending and mixing I set my wool on my chair and stared...

These are the choices I made based on nature surrounding me.

Cloudy Day Ocean

Cloudy Day Summer Garden

Sunny Day Summer Garden

These are the 4 color pathways I will attempt for my challenge.

Today I started on "Sunny Day Ocean", the colorway is warm and rich.

I am spinning sock weight, can't be technical I am going on radar, I also want to be able to use it for my hats.

Anyway a good start, and more fun to come.