Le Tour de Fleece 2013: Day Sixteen

Another hot day here, 30°C when we went out to get my parents-in-law’s birthday present this afternoon. The longest stage of this year’s Tour for the cyclists, ending with the Giant of Provence, the Mont Ventoux. A very exciting day of cycling-watching, amazingly well done to Chris Froome! How they can accelerate when they are already riding up a hill like that is just astonishing!

Today I did my next plying experiment. This one is a 2ply. As expected it is more variable than the 3ply, since the more plies you have, then statistically speaking it is less likely that all of their thick bits will coincide.

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I think it is still an OK yarn though, although I personally prefer the 3ply.

Thank you to Sally for the suggestion to wait til the yarn was dry before panicking about the lack of elasticity. One of the advantages of the ridiculously hot weather is that my yarn from yesterday is quite well on its way to being dry, and is definitely feeling more elastic, whew!

Today’s coin is an old French 1 Franc, for Bastille day. Today would also have been my grandmother’s 100th birthday, except that she died on Christmas Day aged 99 and 5 months. To get that close to 100 is still pretty impressive.

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  1. CATHRYN

    LUVED THE STORY OF R GRANDMA. I LUVED MINE SO. HAD THREE.TRIBUTE SHE PASSED ON CHRISTMAS DAY THO NOT MAKING IT TO HER 100 TH. CAN TELL U LUVED HER SO. MINE DIED 1983 @61 OTHER 1999 @87 OTHER 2002 @90(STEP) LUVED THE COIN. HAS THE HEAT AFFECTED THE CYCLERS MUCH N HAS LANCES PROB TARNISHED IMAGE OF TOUR MUCH? WITH HUBBY DYING HRT N LIVER FAIL HAVE FOLLOWED MOSTLY THIS YEAR THRU UR TOUR DEFLEECE.LUV THAT NAME. UR SO PRETTY N SO TALENTED. THIS IS MY SECOND YEAR WITH U. LAST YEAR WAS IN MASSIVE DEPRESSION OVER HEALTH SO BEEN ENJOYING BETTER THIS YEAR. DO U STILL HAVE A BLOG? SEEMS LIKE U DID LAST YEAR. HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO SPIN BUT NEVER TRIED. KNIY N CROCHET.MOSTLY AFGANS N COTTEN DISHCLOTHES. HAVE 153. MIGHT JOIN BAZAR OR UTAH USA HOLYCOW BOUTIQUE. ((( HUGS)))) CATHRYN

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