Is This Time Well Spent? A 2024 Tour de Fleece Recap

I have one bobbin from my Tour de Fleece spinning this year which represents 10 hours of my life. It’s 100 grams of single-ply yarn that I spun on my spinning wheel this summer. And on today’s Taking Back Friday episode, I’m asking myself if this time well spent?

Felicia Lo on Taking Back Friday vlog holding handspun singles from Tour de Fleece
My 2024 Tour de Fleece spinning progress — Charollais in Summer Sunsets

As we get closer to September and the start of school for the kids, I’ve been thinking a lot about that question, “what did you do this summer?”. I think about how Tour de Fleece started on June 29. And between June 29 and August 22… nearly 2 months, I could not dedicate more than 10 hours to spinning. And so all I have is this bobbin of single-ply yarn. Looking at the amazing members of our School of SweetGeorgia and community members on the SweetGeorgia Discord channel, I’m seeing all the gorgeous finished hand spun skeins that people have spun during Tour de Fleece. Spinners have completed multiple skeins… pounds of fibre. But I have this ONE bobbin of yarn and I am absolutely THRILLED with it and my experience of spinning it. 

Today I want to reflect a bit on this idea of making time to make things and share some important lessons I have learned from this past summer of making things. 

I try to remember that making things is not meant to bring you stress or anxiety. Making things from yarn and fibre brings peace, calm, creative satisfaction and joy to my life and I’d like to keep it that way.

Notes from this episode:

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