The Bremen 2 Euro coin makes its triumphant return today. After some crawling around in the garden with the secateurs this morning I liberated it! It seems to be none the worse for its night outside, but I have given it a nice wash. To celebrate the retrieval it is staring in today’s photo as well as yesterday’s.

My first finished skein of this year’s Tour de Fleece.

This is 70% merino, 30% silk from Wingham Wool Work. It is about the thickness of a British commercial 4ply weight (American fingering weight), which should be a good weight for knitting socks. I spun it at a ratio of 13:1, which is the 4th speed on my Majacraft Suzie Pro. There is 231g and 892m.

It is a slightly odd weight of yarn because I bought this when I visited Wingham. When you buy fibre in person you put it yourself into the bags they supply, then they weigh it and you pay for exactly the amount you have chosen, so it doesn’t have to be in multiples of 100g. Me being my paranoid self I thought I had better add a bit more than 100g to be on the safe side, and got a bit carried away. I probably have enough here for two pairs of socks!

I think I am going to make the Cathedral socks from an old issue of Knitty. I think I shall probably make the middle size, but I might alter the ribbing so it is a bit wider as I have wide legs 🙂

During tomorrow’s rest day I shall make the difficult decision of what to start spinning next.

The cyclists had a rather dramatic day with all the crashes, it makes me doubly glad that I am at home watching it all on the telly rather than out there cycling.