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Today is the first day of the Tour de France, and therefore the first day of the Tour de Fleece. So this morning I got up bright and early and sat in the sun with my spinning wheel for two hours.
Not a very exciting photo, but it's a start. This is my first time spinning Falkland fleece, and it was really nice to spin. This is going to be a shawl for my friend who gave me the fleece. It will eventually be dyed blue, but for now it looks pretty boring! Today I managed to spin about 25g. I'm not sure exactly how much I'll have to spin for this project, but I need at least 500 yards of yarn, so probably between 150g and 200g.
Yesterday we had visitors arrive here - Ted, our friend from Germany, and Caroline, his daughter. Unfortunately, Caroline can only stay until Tuesday as she has to go back to work, but this evening she found time to give me a painting lesson. Well, mainly a drawing lesson - the "colouring-in" was pretty easy. First we ventured into the field which surrounds our house, and "acquired" a couple of sunflowers (don't tell the farmer!), then we sat and drew them (Caroline did hers in a quarter of the time it took me). Here's the finished painting, I was actually quite pleased with the way it turned out.
You'll notice I haven't posted a photo of Caroline's sunflowers (she did two) - hers was much better than mine so I'm not going to tempt a comparison!
Right - off to bed now. I have to be up early again in the morning to do more spinning. We've been invited to a birthday party in the afternoon, and then Eric has a band rehearsal in the evening, so I may not get much time to spin.
Today is the first day of the Tour de France, and therefore the first day of the Tour de Fleece. So this morning I got up bright and early and sat in the sun with my spinning wheel for two hours.
Not a very exciting photo, but it's a start. This is my first time spinning Falkland fleece, and it was really nice to spin. This is going to be a shawl for my friend who gave me the fleece. It will eventually be dyed blue, but for now it looks pretty boring! Today I managed to spin about 25g. I'm not sure exactly how much I'll have to spin for this project, but I need at least 500 yards of yarn, so probably between 150g and 200g.
Yesterday we had visitors arrive here - Ted, our friend from Germany, and Caroline, his daughter. Unfortunately, Caroline can only stay until Tuesday as she has to go back to work, but this evening she found time to give me a painting lesson. Well, mainly a drawing lesson - the "colouring-in" was pretty easy. First we ventured into the field which surrounds our house, and "acquired" a couple of sunflowers (don't tell the farmer!), then we sat and drew them (Caroline did hers in a quarter of the time it took me). Here's the finished painting, I was actually quite pleased with the way it turned out.
You'll notice I haven't posted a photo of Caroline's sunflowers (she did two) - hers was much better than mine so I'm not going to tempt a comparison!
Right - off to bed now. I have to be up early again in the morning to do more spinning. We've been invited to a birthday party in the afternoon, and then Eric has a band rehearsal in the evening, so I may not get much time to spin.
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