Tour de Fleece 2016 is just around the corner and this year I have committed to ‘ride’ for teams Hilltopcloud (my favourite indie dyer) and lovers of Ashford UK (my wheel is an Ashford Joy 2). It’s 21 days of spinning (and a couple of rest days too), so I thought I would set myself a challenge in terms of the amount of fibre I would try and get through. I don’t think I will manage it all, but here it all is.

The plan is to spin it in the following order (oldest to newest):

• 200g Dinorwic – (50% Merino, 25% Shetland, 12.5% Mulberry Silk, 12.5% Baby Alpaca)
• 200g Pembroke – (50% Merino, 25% Shetland, 12.5% Mulberry Silk, 12.5% Baby Alpaca)
• 200g Sheep – (50% Merino, 25% Shetland, 12.5% Mulberry Silk, 12.5% Baby Alpaca)
• 200g Organic Polwarth
• 100g Southdown
• 200g Marvellous Mauve – (40% Corriedale, 30% BFL, 30% Bamboo)
• 200g Tudor Dress – (45% Merino, 25% Finn, 25% Silk, 5% Stellina)
• 130g Winter Moss – (100% Suffolk)
• 120g Eclipse (100% Exmoor Blueface)

That’s a hefty 1.55kg of fibre, which would make a nice dent in my fibre stash for cold sheep 2016, but will also add a significant amount of yardage to my yarn stash.