My nine handspun skeins from my first year of spinning that made weight to enter at the Texas Fleece and Fiber Festival.

The sock yarn I'm knitting is Araucania Yarns Huasco Sock Prism Paints in "Hologram" which is UV reactive.

Starting to look like the top of a sock. I can see why second sock syndrome is a thing. I like how the colors are repeating.

Some progress... It looks like my best bet is to clean my craft office room and sew my medieval pants before the end of the year.

Hopefully, this will become socks. I am still working on my bingo card.

Fixed the tension rod on the rescued inkle/card loom. I worked a Ladoga pattern band in commercial 100% wool yarn, and I'm super pleased. Some of the posts are wonky, but they work.

It is raining. I'm gonna go make a nice cup of tea about it and survey my yard as it gets watered with Zula. Very glad I got some mowing done yesterday. She can take that off anytime she wants. She just doesn't like trying to squeeze under the door with it on.

Tour de Fleece Day 23: I did it! All but one of these skeins were started and finished during this year's run. 8 skeins/mini skeins. I just sat down from wet finishing them + 2 more skeins from stash. Last spin came out of the food dye Leister Longwool in my first fractal. Diva catten is QA.

Tour de Fleece Day 22: I finished spinning the single and plying the unknown fiber. I think this spindle might need a notch cut to keep the cop from unwinding when spinning singles. Ms. Maia the catten is my lovely assistant showing off the completed singles.

Toure de Fleece Day 21: I think I am figuring out this spindle. Starting to run low on the mystery fiber.

Tour de Fleece Day 20: more spinning of the unknown fiber on the experimental spindle. This is some slippery fiber. It has some guard hairs, so I wonder if it is Alpaca or Llama?

Tour de Fleece Day 18: The Navajo Churro is plied, and I continued combing more of the food coloring dyed Leister longwool. I have so many skeins that need a bath!

Toure de Fleece Day 17: I finished my Navajo Churro single spins with a little "Help" from Diva. I was too focused on the roving to fill the second bobbin very evenly. I see a very big plying bracelet in my future.

Tour de Fleece Day 16: Cutting it close tonight, but I put some more yrds on the bobbin for my Navajo Churro spin. Combed 1 oz dyed yesterday into forbidden cotton candy. Stuff for embroidery stand & bigger inkle loom repairs was acquired. Need energy for time with the drill press & miter saw.

Tour de Fleece Day 15: I got together with my fiber friend and we did boil in bag dying with food colors and citric acid. Then we went to our local yarn store for their spinning social. I picked up some yarn for card weaving and a reed for the Bernat loom too.

Tour de Fleece Day 14: I finished plying the single from my Turkish Spindle. Tomorrow is gonna be sort of a challenge day for me. Congrats on two weeks folks.

Tour de Fleece Day 13: Today, I started plying my tiny yarn on the turkish spindle.

Tour de Fleece Day 12: Simply more thread singles. I think my turtle is getting too heavy, so I might start plying it up.

Tour de Fleece Day 11: Today is a rest day, but I put a couple more yards onto my turkish spindle. I also checked on how well the Leister Longwool is drying. Time was also spent figuring out the best paths for card woven bands and repairs needed on my Inkle looms.

So Princess Jehnna likes some of my fiber tools a little much... I wonder if she is part teething puppy... Most of her damage was done when she was pregnant past year with the 4 surprise kittens. I guess my tools have some character now.

Tour de Fleece Day 10: Today was a challenge day so we decided to go spindle spin at the park. I'm still making more thread for now. I'm also working on scouring the Leister tonight.

Tour de Fleece Day 9: I did technically spin today because I was up very late watching anime. I also changed the water my Leister longwool is soaking in and made a Gulf Coast Native batt into roving with my diz.

Tour de Fleece Day 8: Now for something completely different, back to my never-ending thread on a Turkish spindle. My missing package came in last night, and 2lbs of leister are cold soaking.

Tour de Fleece Day 7: Zula helped me out while I finished spinning the last of Cocoa's Fall 2024 fleece. Good thing I have more goodies to be spinning, including some Leister Longwool, Gulf Coast native and Navaho Churro in the stash.

Tour de Fleece Day 6: My final variation on a fleece by Cocoa fall 2024. I took my combed top and carded it into rolags for long draw. I shall probably finish the singles tomorrow evening.

Tour de Fleece Day 5: I worked with some of my Forbidden cinnamon rolls (Double coated Shetland combed top) and made some long draw 2-ply yarn with that. Cocoa of Baize Shetlands' fall 2024 fleece has been a lot of fun. We took it from a raw fleece to some really fun yarns. I'm almost out, though.

Tour de Fleece Day 4: I plied my long draw shetland. Plying bracelets are a saver for me when I have uneven bobbins.

Tour de Fleece Day 3: finished up all my rolags made from my combing leftovers. Letting them rest for plying tomorrow

Tour de fleece day 2: filled the first bobbin and started on my second one. I'm not counting my meters, just trying to spin each day of the 3 weeks.

Tour De Fleece day 1: finished prepping Cocoa's Fall 2024 fleece and started a woolen long draw spin

Stubborn as an ass is a compliment when protecting people. Tagging it as graphic because a donkey doesn't mess around. www.tiktok.com/@mndiaye_97/...

Luxurious...

The results of some more forbidden cinnamon rolls this weekend. 4 oz-ish (194 yds, 2 ply) of mostly detailed Shetland.

Totally my feels this morning: www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K3P...

A small bit of happiness this morning. My rescue orchid bloomed.

Stress crafting... made Zula cat a doily/rug out of my handspun. I made it from some bats I got in a $10 fill-a-bag from some vendors destashing at the Kerrville Fiber Fest fall 2024. I won yarn chicken, no leftover. I used Betty Mcknit's 6 Day Star blanket until I ran low on yarn.

It is so floofy! My buddy Kayla came over to help pick the fleece over for a couple of hours, and I finished the picking around midnight last night. Behold, my first combed top floof bump! Also, some picking progress pictures. Long locks to the left and short "stuff" to the right in my tote.

New toys! Muahahaha. Fine wool combs, a holder, diz, and tooth straightening tool from Bam Fiber Works.

Picking through and trying to get my locks sorted out. 2.5 lbs of raw fleece is a lot of fiber. I must remember this for the future.

Cold water presoak and salad spinner MVPs. Also, some help from the kittens. I found out my fleece is from a ram. Sheepy! I think I felted it a little, but I'm stubborn & will fix it. Just waiting on my combs to arrive. Probably after the weather event, but I can start pulling it into locks.

Oh yes. I think this fleece came from West Texas. I think that might be Cholla? I picked over 2/3 of my 2.5 fleece so far. Hopefully I can start cold soaking it tomorrow night.

It is going to a Mish mash of where updates go for my 25 in '25... Here is where I'm at so far:

Ok, I might as well get started over here. I am a programmer by day, and I collect hobbies in the evening. I do a little bit of a lot of things, so the handle fits. Right now, I'm working on what I'm calling my "25 in '25" bingo sheet for some things I have set as goals for the year.