The Cycling: Stage 6 160.6km and starts in Tours and ends in Châteauroux - Val de Loire. The route contains just one category 4 climb. All riders took Covid-19 tests yesterday following the time trial and all have come back negative, it's good that they are doing tests for the safety of everyone. Mark Cavendish won the stage.
Team Challenge: "The cyclists are passing through Amboise today; the place where Leonardo Da Vinci spent his last days. Famed for many pieces of work, Da Vinci also designed a weaving loom which wasn't built until 500 years after his death - and it worked perfectly! Another piece of work by him was 'Madonna of the Yarnwinder', a painting depicting the Virgin Mary and an infant Christ, holding a crucifix-shaped yarn winder.
Today's challenge is a photographic one - show us your yarn on its winder! (And if you don't have a winder, show us what you use instead!)".
What I planned to do and what I achieved: First off, I Googled the painting as I had never heard of it. It is interesting that I discovered that there is more than one version of this painting, they are similar to each other but with notable differences.
The information gathered from an official Leonardo Da Vinci site states that the original has probably been lost and that several copies still exist and that there is strong speculation that at least two of copies are by Leonardo Da Vinci himself, pictured above, but there is a lot of debate surrounding them and that any or all of them could in fact be by his talented students. The original works is securely dated at 1501.
The work was intended for Florimond Robertet, Secretary to the Kind of France and shows the winder shaped like a cross and symbolizes the Passion of Christ and His future death. It seems that Mary is trying to pull the child away from the symbol of his future death but she is powerless to prevent the Crucifixion and his destiny. The painting is known by several names including Madonna of the Yarnwinder, Madonna of the Spindle and Madonna with the Distaff.
Today I have plied the Moorit Shetland that I spun yesterday and this has given me a sport weight yarn of 125g/251m, which means that another 753m is added to the team total.
I'm able to complete the challenge again today and snapped a quick picture of my newly spun Shetland whilst it was still on my Niddy Noddy (a form of wool winder).
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| The finished skein of Moorit Shetland that is part of my British Breeds Project |
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