The End of Tour de Fleece 2019

Today is the last day of Tour de Fleece 2019. I’ll spin more fiber into yarn today, but for all intents and purposes I’ve reached my personal end of the race.

As I wrote last week, I didn’t set any goals beyond spinning each day of the tour. In particular, I planned to work on a fiber pairing that I started spinning earlier this year: eight ounces (227 g) of handpainted Targhee wool from Spunky Eclectic in the colorway Let Love In, and four ounces (113 g) of white alpaca roving.

This year, I spun yarn on each day of the three-week tour. That alone is a huge accomplishment for me! Using a 0.7-ounce top-whorl spindle, I spun 1.6 ounces (45 g) of fiber into 266 yards (243 m) of two-ply yarn.

Of this fiber, including the handspun that I made before the Tour, I’ve spun a total of 3.9 ounces (110.5 g) into 638 yards (583 m) of two-ply yarn. With about eight ounces (267 g) to go, I should end up with about 1,900 yards (1,737 m) of yarn when I'm done. I'm browsing patterns already.

As usual, Tour de Fleece has renewed my interest in spinning. I want to keep it up, even if it’s only for five minutes a day. What did you get out of Tour de Fleece 2019?