Tour de Fleece Reckoning

I’ve been watching the Tour de France from about 5:20 am every day it’s been on for the past three weeks, which has also coincided with the Women’s Euros (Spain lost the final to England today, boo-hoo), which I’ve also watched pretty avidly, both of them on Spanish television (RTVE) through a VPN. The Spanish commentators on the cycling are all ex-cyclists and had a different guest on every day of their coverage, which made it interesting — today it was a Spanish women’s champion who rode for Spain in the Olympics and knew the Butte Montmartre circuit the cyclists were going to be riding (in the rain and mostly over cobbles; it wasn’t a comfy saunter as it has been in previous years).

My spinning has been less avid. I’ve certainly spun a sock-quantity of fine BFL 3-ply (well it will be when I ply it) and made a good start on the chocolate corriedale a friend picked up for me at Black Sheep Gathering in June, but I confess to having been seduced by some lace knitting and wasn’t monocraftual.

Time to pick up a pen and get more focused on drawing in time for SAWgust, which starts on Friday.