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I wanted to share the final two skeins I finished during Tour de Fleece.

This spinning project has been on the bobbin for a long time. It is merino/silk blend in the colour “Grevillia”. I only know that as it is written on the packaging, but I have no idea where I got this fibre. I spun it into a three ply, intending to make it into socks. Unfortunately, it has turned out a tad thick for socks at somewhere between 8ply and 5ply weight. I am not sure whether I will go ahead and make some thick socks, or something else. I call this skein “Fire Sock”

My second skein was spun from some Merino/English Leicester blend roving that was dyed by Minihaha from Ravelry. I split the roving in three long ways and spun the singles from that to attempt to keep the stripes. Once spun up, it looks a lot more a of “boy” colour than I thought. Unfortunately, I only ended up with 290m, so I am not sure I have enough to make man-socks. Thinking about striping with a contrast colour now. Anyway, this one is a true 4ply weight, which I am happy with. I called this skein “Dobby Sock”

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