Tour De Fleece 2016 Wrap-Up

All the goodies from our Art Yarns Challenge Day event last month. Thanks so much to Katie Best for doing the Demo and for donating so many wonderful prizes for this year's participants!!

Tour De Fleece has ended for another year, but our local team, Athena's Twisted Sisters did a pretty good job making a dent in each of our respective fiber stashes. Our team's focus was on having fun and getting each other excited about spinning and maybe trying out some new techniques along the way. Our individual goals were to try to spin as many meters of yarn as the riders in the Tour De France travel in kilometers (3519). Not all of us made it that far, but we all did at least a little spinning and we all had a great time enjoying each others company at least once each week for the past month.

The rest of this post is a collection of our team member's totals and photos of the completed handspun. If there was more than one picture to choose from, I tried to pick the one that I thought the spinner would like showcased. I'm really so proud of our team and I couldn't be happier with how everyone did! Even though we didn't have a stretch goal, I thought that it would be fun to see how much we spun together as a team...

Collectively we spun at least 20,332 meters!!

Thanks so much to everyone who participated and for those who were on the sidelines cheering us on! I hope that you will all join us for Spinzilla 2016 in a few months and bring a friend.

Enjoy the yarn porn below and if you aren't a spinner but are interested send me an e-mail, I'd love to enable you into this fun craft!
Shaina  ^_^

My own handspun from the tour.

Shaina:


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Sdpenrn spinning through a length of Malibrigo Nube.

Jarrod:


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Some of Luvewebygk's beautiful singles. A special thank you as well to Gerry Kay who donated some wonderful spinning fibers and kits as prizes for this year's team as well!!

Gerry Kay:


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Except for the neon green in the center, all of Evesch's handspun in this picture if from the same roving. I love how she split the fiber to preserve the color-changes and then plied it with a commercial yarn that had sparkly sequins for even more of a pop!

Eve:


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Photo credit to OmniGeek

Katie:


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Photo credit to Defiant1

Lorna:


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Photo credit to Cloudlakes

Amy:


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Photo credit to Cooneen

Colleen:


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Photo credit to Martyshandspun

Marty:


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Photo credit to Danugraywolf

Lauri:


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I did fail to get pictures of everyone's spinning (sorry!!) so here are the couple that I missed:
Nancy:



Wendy:



Lisa: