I am a total Tour de Fleece cheater, and I don’t care. I’ve given up following along on Ravelry because the number of posts is just overwhelming, and I’ve decided to just try to spin up what I’d originally planned and ignore the rest of the rules.

Today was a Tour de Fleece rest day, but I took advantage of a vacation day and finished spinning up my 4th bobbin of singles for the worsted-weight gray and blue/green 2-ply I’ve been working towards. Then I was finally able to start plying 2 of the older bobbins together. I was a little worried that the color changes in the Falkland wool would be lost, but they’re still visible, and they should make some nice subtle color shifts in the knitted fabric. I’ll want to knit this up with a fairly simple stitch pattern so the different shades will show up. It has sort of a faded denim look at the moment, so maybe something I can wear with jeans.

I also did a little dyeing of superwash Corriedale for sock yarn. I ended up with a turquoise/jungle-green/yellow/orange batch and a dark blue/green/yellow/orange batch that should both make some bright fun 3-ply sock yarn. I’m very interested to see how these will spin up.