I'm sure most of you who spin and are members of Ravelry know about the Tour de Fleece. If not..my take on it is: a bunch of spinners set goals for themselves and then try to achieve these goals during the time frame of the Tour de France. Some people watch the Tour while they spin for inspiration, some completely ignore the Tour and spin however they please. There are no set rules..only loose guidelines. And there are prizes. Lots of fibery prizes (I've donated one this year as well). Anyway... My goals for the Tour de Fleece this year are pretty mellow. I want to become better at making coils and teach myself how to corespin. So on day one, I made some coils like so:
And for Day 2 I decided to get over my fear of corespun and just try making some already! So, here is what I have at this time..I hope to have the yarn finished and off the bobbin in a little while:
I spun that from my "Chocolate Mint Cookie" Batts:
And for those of you unfamiliar with corespinning..I made a little demo video. It's short, it's probably not the most informative, and you have to listen to my voice. If none of those things put you off (oh, and I mispronounce "treadling" as treeeeedling..cause that's how I say it), then here is the video I made an hour or so ago courtesy of YouTube: I'm not sure how helpful it is, but thought I'd just put it here in case it might help someone!
Happy spinning! And for any Tour de Fleece people, have fun and good luck!
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