My Tour de Fleece Booty

Alright. This is what I have to spin during the Tour... (I'm expecting more to be delivered before and during the tour)


4oz Merino in Lavender Hedgerow from Greenwood Fiberworks


16 oz Shetland in white from Storeybook's Spinning a Yarn


8oz Shetland in silver from Storeybook's Spinning a Yarn


100g Bay Black Alpaca with Chartreuse and Sky Blue Silk from Brier Run Alpacas


100g White Alpaca with Turquoise Silk from Brier Run Alpacas


50g Ashford 80% Merino 20% silk in Pomegranate and Saffron


This 50g compressed mess of Merino from Fleece Artist.


Just under a lb of milk, dyed by me with Koolaid


1 lb each SW Merino mill ends in black and crimson, purchased from The Black Lamb.


57g in total of 60% Seacell, 40% Silk, purchased from The Black Lamb


Silk hankies in "Sea and Sand" purchased at Gemini Fibres.

My intro

New, spinning dedicated blog. I'm excited to be participating in the Tour de Fleece this year. It sounds like good fun!

My rookie intro:

Started knitting Aug 2008. Got bored of the yarns available to me and found Etsy, and through that, found the Phat Fiber Box. This led me down the slippery slope.

My Mom got me a drop spindle set (one top whorl, one bottom whorl, some handpainted roving and some “practice” roving) in April 2009, a full month before my birthday. My first Phat Fiber Box came the day after the drop spindles did.

I was hooked. Or spun. Whatever.

End of May, I got my first wheel. A Kromski Sonata. It goes room to room with me (wherever the 7 month old with the curious fingers isn’t) and I try to spin every night. Of course, it’s tough to find that time with the baby, my full time job AND running our business (housekeeping is pretty low on the list of importance), but that will be my challenge.

So my goals:

• spin every day of the tour
• get the yarns done that I need for holiday gifts
• my big challenge will be either taking on the silk hankies that seem to be my nemesis or to spin up the other slippery stuff I have on my table mocking me.

I’ll be documenting my Tour on my new, spinning dedicated blog Jacy Spins.

Currently I’m a part of Team eXtreme Spinning but will be joining other “Phatties” to represent.

Good luck, all!!