The Cycling: Stage 15 is 180km of a mountain route that starts in Lets Gets les Portes du Soleil and ends in Saint-Gervais Mont Blanc.
The Daily Challenge: Take a picture of something you've spun so far, from the highest point you can find (but stay safe)
Suggested Fibre: Mont Blanc
What I did
Well, I did do the photography challenge, or should I say Hubby did it for me. I arranged everything I've spun so far on a towel on the patio table (it had been raining and the table was a bit wet) and hubby leant out of an upstairs window and took the photograph for me. I scooped up the skeins using the towel just as it started raining again.
As for the spinning? Hmmm the only thing I have that is remotely height related, and this a really tenuous link, is called "Moon Bloom". It is from John Arbon Textiles and from their range called "Devonia" which is 50% Exmoor Blueface, 30% Bluefaced Leicester, 20% Wensleydale. Exmoor Blueface is the result of crossing an Exmoor Horn with a Bluefaced Leicester.
I expected this one to spin up in all shades of blue but I'm very pleasantly surprised by the look of the single that I've spun so far.
The colour looks pretty even and not variegated as I expected it to spin. It's a little confusing to me given the number of shades and colours in the braid. It's lovely to spin though and I do have a couple more braids from the Devonia range in different colours.
The finished yarn is 50% Exmoor Blueface, 30% Bluefaced Leicester, 20% Wensleydale, fingering weight and 319m/100g.
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