Another exciting day of racing around the beautiful scenery of Corsica. Some of the roads stuck to the side of the mountains looked a bit scary though!

I have finished my first yarn of the Tour!

This is a 3ply merino, approximately commercial 4ply / sock weight. I was so keen to take photos that it is still a little damp 🙂 I am very pleased with how it has come out and am looking forward to knitting with it, I think it will become socks, but I haven’t yet measured the metreage to check that I will have enough. I did have a bit of trouble with my second single snapping a few times as I was plying. I could definitely tell that that was the one where I was still getting back into the zone after a bit of a spinning break. I think overall though the yarn should be strong enough to knit with.

Today’s coin is an old Belgian 1 Franc for Jan Bakelants who is still in the yellow jersey, and still looking rather surprised! (apologies to Simon Gerrans today’s stage winner, I don’t have any Ozzie coins)

Exciting racing for day two! Well done to Jan Bakelants! We were on the edge of our seats watching the last couple of km.

I have now finished spinning the singles of my rainbow merino:

Plying tomorrow! One of these days I shall finish early enough to take a photo in reasonable daylight. Today’s coin is a French 1 Euro for Sylvain Chavanel’s 34th birthday today.

It is that time of year! Time to spin along while watching the Tour de France. This year is a special year because it is the 100th edition of the Tour, and it is all in France.

The cyclists had a rather chaotic start day in Corsica, with lots of people falling off, and the end being moved and then moved back again when the Orica Greenedge bus got stuck under the banner across the finish line. Luckily I had a much better day (apart from loosing a 1 Euro coin in the flower bed – the perils of spinning photography!).

I am starting off by finishing some rainbow merino from Wingham Woolworks which I am spinning into a 3ply for socks. This is the second bobbin which I finished off today. Today’s coin is a German 1 Euro for Marcel Kittel’s win.