Tour de Fleece- Completion!

It includes HY Overfond, SCF Diversity, PRS Luna, HY Sour Fig, Nest Sunnyside Up, SCF Cavern, Wound Up So Serious, NBK Borderline Personality, and PRS Experimental Circus.

I got roughly 2 pounds, 4 oz and spun a finished total of 3407 yards!

This seems like so much spinning to me since 5 skeins out of 9 are fingering weight, and the Tour is only 21 days. I also took a short vacation from my wheel for 4 days, worked lots of extra shifts at work this past week, and had some extra obligations during the Tour. I couldn't be happier with how much I spun! Now to start planning projects and casting on...

CSA 7/26

This week I got green beans, a purple onion, a small head of cabbage, and two green peppers:

A yellow onion, two cucumbers, two tomatoes, 2 yellow squashes, a ton of serano peppers:

Eggs, beets, and blackberries:

This week I'm going to make:

• Picked serano peppers
• Berry smoothies with  blackberries, strawberries, blueberries, and yogurt
• Baked beet chips
• Green Beans Amadine (from The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without by Mollie Katzen)
• Szechwan Tofu Triangles in Triple Pepper Sauce (from The Enchanted Broccoli Forest by Mollie Katzen)
• Chili Cabbage (from The Vegetable Dishes I Can't Live Without)
• A Cheese Souffle (from The Enchanted Brocoli Forest) served with a tomato, onion, cucumber salad with a simple vinaigrette (from The Moosewood Cookbook by Mollie Katzen)

Tour de Fleece- Stage 19

Sour Fig

Hello Yarn

Shetland

light fingering weight

n-ply

550 yards

Experimental Circus

Pigeonroof Studios 

BFL 

4 oz singles

Tour de Fleece- Stage 17

Sour Fig

Hello Yarn

Shetland

4 oz. 

singles finished

Tour de Fleece- Stage 17 Diversity

Diversity

Southern Cross Fiber

Falkland

110 grams

423 yards

n-ply

Tour de Fleece- Day 16: Sunnyside Up

Here's pictures of my first plied and skein yarn!  

Sunnyside Up

Nest Fiber Studio

Superwash Merino

4 oz.

skein 1: 220 yards

skein 2: 260 yards

CSA 7/19

This week I got dragon's tongue beans, 3 cucumbers, 2 zucchini, and 1 yellow squash:

I also got a head of cabbage, potatoes, a green pepper, two green tomatoes, green onions, and leeks:

This week I'm planning on making:

• A Mexican cabbage lasagna similar to this or this (will use cabbage, green pepper, green onions)
• Cucumber Lime Margaritas to go with the Mexican lasagna (will use cucumbers)
• A quiche (will use zucchini, eggs)
• Green tomato salsa
• A roasted vegetable medley- this is one of my favorite meals to make when I have lots of different veggies. I'll use potatoes, zucchini, wax beans, cabbage, and whatever else I have in my kitchen!
• I might also do some pickling this week...

CSA 7/12

I'm soooooooo excited because I got my most favorite food:

POTATOES!!!!!!!!!!!

I also got an onion, green tomatoes, wax beans: 

A purple cabbage, a cucumber, 2 zucchini, and 2 yellow squash. (not pictured: beets)

I'm planning on making:

• Grilled vegetable kabobs with squash, onion, potatoes, and bell peppers
• Tacos with a purple cabbage slaw, maybe like these or these
• fried green tomatoes- I'll probably make this into a meal by cooking up the beans and maybe a protein like tofu/tempeh/faux meat
• Raw cucumber! Such a yummy summer snack. :)

Tour de Fleece- Day 5

Borderline Personality

North Bound Knits

Polwarth

4 oz. of singles

ready to ply!

Diversity

Southern Cross Fibre

Falkland

4 oz. of singles

ready to ply!

Luna

Pigeonroof Studios

Superwash BFL 

2 oz.

Waiting on it's other half to be spun

Tour de Fleece- Day 2

Borderline Personality

North Bound Knits

Polwarth 

approx. 2 oz. singles

Diversity

Southern Cross Fibre 

Falkland

approx. half an ounce

Tour de Fleece- Day 1

Tour de Fleece is one of the most exciting times of year for me! Here's some of the fiber I'm spinning:

From top to bottom: Pigeonroof Studios Luna on sw BFL, Southern Cross Fibre Diversity on Falkland, Hello Yarn Sour Fig on Shetland, Nest Sunny Side Up on sw Merino

These are some of my most favorite colorways!

I'm also spinning North Bound Knits Borderline Personality, but it's already being spun. I'll have to wait to get pictures once it's on the bobbin.

CSA 7/5

My shares keep getting bigger and bigger! This was the heaviest share yet.

Today I got eggs, green onions, beets, cilantro, and that really pretty yellow summer squash.

I also got another cabbage, cauliflower, three cucumbers, and 2 zucchinis. 

I also got three bell peppers for a dollar! You can't beat that price.

This week I'm planning on making 

• Enchiladas with squash, green peppers, and cilantro
• Curry noodles with veggies (to use cabbage, green onions, cauliflower) (I'll also add some yellow peppers and mushrooms I have already)
• Barley Wax Bean Salad (to use beets, wax beans, green onion, AND cucumbers!)
• And I'm so overrun with cabbage, I'm going to give some to a bunny friend to eat. Last week alone we ate 1.5 cabbages. 

Finished Yarns

I LOVE this yarn. It's Cheviot wool which is awesome for socks. Old Master, dyed by Southern Cross Fibre. I got around 400 yards total. I may have just ordered another pound and a half of this fiber...maybe...

Some of the other yarns I've finished lately.  This is Homeland dyed by Southern Cross Fibre. It's on South African Superfine, and it's the softest wool I've ever spun! There's about 300 yards of DK weight yarn.

I did a combo spin of Hello Yarn Wickerwork and HY Hullaballoo to make this big, fat skein: