I actually am doing this!

Yesterday it was very late when I actually signed up.  I cheated just a little, but I can justify it!  :D  I signed up late in the evening in the United States, so in reality, it was very early in the morning the next day in France!  Actually, I did not get any spinning done yesterday, but I learned a little about this blogging thing, and I have started my Tour of Fleece.  I spun at least 30 minutes today, twice the amount that I am hoping to do daily for Tour de Fleece.  I am using some Corriedale Sliver, which is currently the only unspun fiber I own, but I intend to spin it all up before I go out to buy some more.and I am sure it won’t be the only fiber.  I find that I like spinning a lot.  I am hoping to be able to spin some nice thin yarn someday.  I don’t use bulky yarns, even worsted feels very big to me.  The spinning does mean that I have not been knitting quite as much.  I am still working on a dishcloth for my grandmother-in-law.  Her birthday is tomorrow, and since the lives in PA, and I in TX, I will have to mail it to her.  Oh well, I think I have a good chance of finishing it tomorrow or day after, so it won’t be too terribly late.  Gma likes dishcloths that one of her sister-in-laws made many, many years ago.  I never met this wonderful lady, she passed away before I met the family.  I do have an unfinished afghan (I am they only one in the family with the skill and the patience to have a chance to finish it) that is absolutely gorgeous and that I will finish one day.  But that means that the dishcloths are at least 14 or so years old, probably older, and I don’t remember seeing them last time I was there.  I do know that one, at least, had some unrepairable holes in it one of the times I saw it before that.  So I thought it would be nice to knit her some new ones.  She lives on the water, and likes crabs and other water creatures, so I am making a crab cloth, a blue heron cloth, and a diagonal without holes.  I could not find a pattern for the last one so I made up my own.  :)  If I get lucky and have some time, I will put some pictures later.