What I spun during Tour De Fleece

Well Tour De Fleece is over, and I must say I did pretty well. I spun a total of 600 yards of yarn, give or take a few yards. One of the projects that make it hard to say exactly how much I spun if part of a felted bag. At the beginning of the Tour I had been knitting a market bag and I ran out of the yarn I had spun for it. So I started off my Tour spinning the yarn to make the handles and finish the market bag. I spun, plied and set the twist and started knitting without measuring the yarn.

The bag is made of Shetland wool, I also spun Wensleydale and Polworth breeds this time. Wensleydale and Polworth are both new breeds for me. I liked spinning them and they both turned out pretty soft. I was skeptical of the Wensleydale as it felt wiry to my hands as I was spinning it. I was not sure I would want that around my neck, but once I had set the twist it became softer. I think it will become a small shawl so I have the option of having it near my neck but most of the time it would be on my shoulders, there is 215 yards of worsted weight so could be fingerless mitts. The Polworth has 162 yards so it could be a narrow shawl, I would really like this one around my neck to maybe a cowl.

Here is a picture of my Tour De Fleece works.