Here is the cotton I've been spinning for Tour de Fleece. I divided the cotton simply by folding the sliver in half and breaking it at the mid-way point. It would have been more accurate if I'd done it by weight, but I went with close enough as I wanted to get started. The first bobbin has the first half of the sliver and I've started on the second bobbin. This has been fun, but it's a lot of cotton and a lot of days in a row to be spinning cotton. I might have to dig up the coloured Corriedale and make some funky rolags for a change once this is done. I don't have a lot of dyed fibre or commercial colourways and once in a while I think that might be fun to do.
For the Tour de Fleece challenge day I spun some Tussah silk. I have to admit that spinning silk isn't really a challenge, but I couldn't find the energy to blend some angora, or yak, maybe alpaca with some merino when it was 33°C, feeling like 40°C. The silk was fun. It's a bit slippery and does take a bit of concentration. It's a lovely colour. I had been mulling around the idea of blending it with some soft grey wool, however I didn't have anything that worked, so it's just plain blue. I'm not complaining.
The birds have eaten almost all the strawberries. I noticed that what I thought were the black currants were actually the white ones. They were already half eaten when I had checked them. They had just started to ripen. I tasted a few and a they were so sweet and just barely ripe. I figured if I didn't get the rest of the berries off the bush right then, they'd be eaten the next day. I only have 259g of them. Maybe if I get any of the black currants before the birds get them, I'll have enough to do a blended jelly. The red currants are being eaten before they ripen, so I've decided not to fight the birds for them. I didn't put the netting over them this year and obviously it made more of a difference than I realized.
The birds have eaten almost all the strawberries. I noticed that what I thought were the black currants were actually the white ones. They were already half eaten when I had checked them. They had just started to ripen. I tasted a few and a they were so sweet and just barely ripe. I figured if I didn't get the rest of the berries off the bush right then, they'd be eaten the next day. I only have 259g of them. Maybe if I get any of the black currants before the birds get them, I'll have enough to do a blended jelly. The red currants are being eaten before they ripen, so I've decided not to fight the birds for them. I didn't put the netting over them this year and obviously it made more of a difference than I realized.