Dealgan & Distaff - The last of the Tour de Fleece Femme '24

Greetings and welcome to the last video for my Tour de Fleece spinning for 2024. This was my first Tour de Fleece and I decided to extend my Tour to include the Tour de Femme.

For this last week of spinning I power through the third and final single, and plying my first ever fractal spin. To begin, I decide to further split the fibre before wrapping it onto a new "distaff". I then share a timelapse of spinning the whole single, before taking you through bits and pieces of plying this 3 ply yarn. The only thing I didn't manage to do within the Tour timeframe was soaking and whacking the yarn.

Hope you have fun watching me stumble along!

Challenges:

- Learn to spin on a dealgan spindle

- Learn to use a distaff (a long broom handle to mimic a floor distaff)

- Spin a fractal for the first time

- Spin semi-woollen for the first time (since beginners spinning class)

Resources

Dealgan: Lair of the Bearded Dragon

Fibre: Ixchel Bunny

Blend: Shetland Dream (Shetland, mulberry silk, cashmere)

Colourway: Ankh Morpork