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July 13, 2026
Week 28 of 2026 from Thread Head

Tour de Fleece (an annual spinning event) started this week (this is usually when I do most of my spinning for the year) -

This week I finished spinning fibre that I washed, combed, blended and spun a bit last year. The majority of the fibre is local wool in natural white and brown, along with some Angora and cashmere, as well as bits of dyed handspun and sparkle blended in for interest. I have another finished skein from last year, and it should be enough for a sweater (almost 500g total).
I was recently given an Indian head flyer ...

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added by Joanne 2 weeks, 2 days ago. under spinning , tour de fleece
August 4, 2025
Week 31 of 2025 from Thread Head

Tour de Fleece ended today, and these are my results -

I wanted to spin 20-30 minutes everyday from July 5th to August 3rd (the dates of Tour de France and Tour de France Femmes), and I did that and more some days. This is my 11th TdF in 13 years.
I ended up spinning four different projects. From left to right - a skein of super fine merino, a skein of a merino/nylon sock blend, 4 skeins of BFL (for a sweater), and a local merino that I blended with Angora and a few other types of fibres. I dyed ...

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added by Joanne 11 months, 4 weeks ago. under chickens , tour de fleece
July 21, 2025
Week 29 of 2025 from Thread Head

This week I finished spinning a skein of yarn -

 It is a 3 ply, Merino/Nylon blend for socks. It is my second skein of yarn for Tour de Fleece.

Photos from Around -

We are eating quite a bit from the garden now.
Lovely Gazanias.
The cats sleeping in the best seats in the sunroom.
Molly prefers to sit in the little truck, hoping for a ride.
First honey of the year.
The little chicks went outside for the first time this week (5 weeks old).
Around nine every evening they get so loud - we don't know why. It ...

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added by Joanne 1 year ago. under tour de fleece
August 24, 2022
Tour de Fleece Results and More from Thread Head

Tour de Fleece was last month and these are my results -

I spun everyday for 24 days. 
I spun 784g of fibre and ended up with 2,506m of yarn

I am currently knitting a Nightshift with some of the yarn.

I recently finished #9 of 12 handspun socks for the year.

I also finished knitting another Easy (my 4th - love these).

Photos from Around - 

The garden is doing well - canning and freezing season is well under way.
Honey is also flowing- we are up to 27 litres of honey so far and expecting one more harvest before settling the ...

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added by Joanne 3 years, 11 months ago. under pets , spinning , tour de fleece
August 3, 2021
Day 2 - Tour de Fleece 2021 from Thread Head

Last month was Tour de Fleece (an online spinning event that takes place at the same time as the Tour de France).
My goal was to spin everyday.


I didn't get as much spun as in previous years, but at least I met my goal.
314g of fibre spun, 2135m of singles spun, resulting in 793m of yarn.


The first is a 3 ply sock yarn (a BFL and nylon blend).


This one is just the start of a large spin, with some local fibre that I blended some sari silk and silver angelina into one of the plies ...

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added by Joanne 4 years, 12 months ago. under august challenge , tour de fleece
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