I left my Tour de Fleece goals pretty loosey goosey. While spinning every day would have been ideal, I figured that getting anything done was better than what had been getting done. I've washed several fleeces, wove the Daniel scarf, prepped some lamb fleece, spun a couple of small skeins. Today I wanted to clock some mileage.
I'm not sure why I grabbed Henri, but I'm glad I did. I love spinning Jacob fiber and hers has always been a fun spin. She had an almost silky fleece that practically spun itself. I recently got Kate Davies' Book of Haps and decided Henri would make a nice hap. Of course, half the fun is deciding which one...and spinning the yarn.
I don't remember when I did this, but found one ball of singles already finished. Can't beat that. Now to look back through the blog to see if there's a note about when I spun that. Surely not last year's Tour de Fleece...right? Possibly :-/.
Pretty Henri
This was her last fleece (2015) and it has some quite a bit of VM (vegetable matter) mixed in. Too much to think about selling it...and I doubt I would have anyway. She was a favorite sheep and much missed. I'll love having a cozy memento.
Henri had gotten too feeble to make the trek in and out of the Del Boca Vista annex this summer and this has not been a summer you would weather out in the little shed. Yeesh, it's been hot!
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