WEEK 1 IS ALMOST DONE!
I am so excited to see all the spinning being accomplished this past week! It’s so fun to see everyone’s progress and their lovely fibers and wheels and spindles and such. I am sorry if I’ve not commented on your posts, but there are so many I can’t keep up!! I’m excited to be learning a new technique (long draw) and even though I’ve gotten in daily spinning, it seems slower than I had hoped, but I’m learning and getting the hang of it, slowly but surely. Maybe by the time we’re done, this will be a new favorite technique.
And I said this last year, but I’ll say it again: I’ve enjoyed watching some of the Tour de France as well–I am so impressed with the endurance and strength it takes to ride those hills. At least our spinning wheels stay on a flat surface!! (Unless you’re one of those who are so good at drop spindles that you can walk around while you spin.) I still think treadling should count for exercise. [IMG2=JSON]{“data-align”:“none”,“data-size”:“full”,“src”:“https://ourunraveled.com/plugins/emojiextender/emoji/twitter/tongue.png”}[/IMG2]
Friday is Day 7 of our Spin de Fleece–I can’t believe it’s been a week already! And that means Saturday is the day we will draw for the first week’s prize. This week we will be giving away some fiber donated by @Char – it is lovely Malabrigo Nube 100% merino roving from the Woolery, one of our affiliates. Char says it’s incredibly soft–it almost tempted her to take up spinning! (I think we’re going to have to send her some more roving to tip her over the edge! 
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So to be reminded, the rules for participation are simple–you need to have had at least 6 out of 7 days where you’ve spun for at least 20 minutes (or did fiber prep or plying, etc). Again, this is on the honor system and we’re not going around checking to see if you did that or not. (Ain’t nobody got time for that!) So, if by tomorrow evening (Friday the 4th) at midnight you qualified for this week’s drawing, please comment below and post your name. If you care to show a picture of what you did or at least tell us about it, that would be awesome. (And if you had a day where you didn’t meet that amount of time but you made up for it another day, then you still qualify!)
If you’ve already met that qualification, feel free to go ahead and post your name; you don’t have to wait until tomorrow evening to do so. But to keep it fair, no posting after midnight on Friday, please.
I will not be putting my name in any of the drawings and I will be using a random name generator on the internet to draw your name.
I have an aversion to it, but I have to admit that it’s incredibly soft. I needed to conquer it for 51 Yarns, so today should have been a challenge day for me!