Tour de Fleece is a delightful spinning adventure via social media. We join teams, set goals, spin, drool over each others fibers, share progress, flops, jokes, and generally cheer and console each other. Stangers become friends, prizes travel around the world, and a lot of pretty yarn results. The team I joined specifies we must spin at least 15 minutes a day. Or not. It's a very relaxed team. This year's TdF start coincided with my having 4 days in a row free to put in extra spinning time, so I have made excellent progress. That plus one of my goals is to finish some yarns in progress. That means I started with a bobbin of singles already spun for each of 3 different fibers, so it seems like I did a lot more spinning in the first three days than I actually did.
First up, because I drove to Maine on day 1 of TdF so needed a travel wheel, was a 50/50 blend of cormo and angora on Rose. I dyed this delicious stuff years ago, and sent it to Still River Mill for processing into roving. I had about 5 pounds of the stuff, and kept finding another bag, so I've spun it off and on ever since. It is a delightful spin, so easy it practically spins itself. This may be the last of it, though. That would make me sad if I didn't already have more washed cormo to go with the ever arriving supply of angora. I also still have some unwashed cormo. I already had a full bobbin of singles when TdF started, so only had to fill one more bobbin. I did that on days one and 2. Day 3 I plied. When I filled the 1st bobbin with 2 ply yarn, I still had singles left on the 2 bobbins, so I wound off the plied yarn, and started plying the rest of the singles. When I finished off the 1st singles bobbin, the 2nd bobbin still had a good amount of singles on it. I decided to wind 
that into an Andean bracelet. Then I spit joined the ends to the yarn on the bobbin and continued plying. I ended up with one skein of about 330 yards worsted weight, and a second skein of about 150 yards. My boy Hoppy Hooligan inspected the skeins and they apparently passsed muster.
My second project for TdF is also a YIP (yarn in progress). The fiber is 19 micron merino that I dyed a tonal salmon about a year ago for a felt 
project. I deliberately dyed extra just because I could. And because I hoped to do more felting and having lots of dyed wool is handy for that. But 19 micron merino is a delicious feel for spinning. And I haven't done any felting in a long time (that needs to change). When I got my accelerator wheel, I decided to use this fiber as my get acquainted with the wheel fiber. The first bobbin full, spun prior to the start of TdF, came from a section of the fiber that is lighter in color. I plan to ply it with the darker.
I already picked out my 3rd project. It's also a YIP, on my CPW, Gussie. I have to figure out if I want to try to cram the rest of the fiber braid on Gussie's one bobbin or spin another single on a different wheel. Ideally, I will get myself to the hardware store, get a metal rod and bend it into a replacement footman for my other CPW, Jeannine, then I can spin the other single on her one bobbin. But we shall see, and that's when I'll put up photos of the fiber.
