Tour de Fleece Highlights

The Tour is over for another year, and Team Hilltop Cloud had an even busier tour than ever before. We racked up nearly 1200 posts in our team thread, 760 of them contained posts of spinning in progress and spun yarn. It's amazing how much your can achieve even when you only do 10 minutes an evening. Some people experimented with new spinning techniques and fibres, others stuck to old favourites. Some wheels went on holiday, and we saw some beautiful spinning spots.
We also raised £118 for Qubeka, who put people in African communities on bikes to help them access education and employment, with sales of this years special Tour de Fleece fibre. I know many team members also made personal donations.

Here are a few of my personal favourite photos....

AnnSJ took her tiny turk, and the contents of a Goodie Bag with her to Cub Scout camp.

missalicefaye found the perfect backdrop for her spindle containing one of the shades from Les Montagnes, our Tour de Fleece gradient pack.

schlompfine found the perfect spot to rest the next braid destined for her wheel.

craft fidget fell in love with the other special Tour de Fleece colour way; Le Grand Depart

We all fell in love with yancka's special Tour de Fleece sheep.

and were very jealous of MalluT's spinning spot post-sauna.

zinniz spun on a plane

blueandwhitecat spun Les Montagnes whilst in the mountains.

mrsmcpee was holidaying in the area when Le Tour passed through.

unnell dissected 3 different colourways on Romney, Silk & Linen to form her own gradient.

Merrick79 spun pure silk for the first time and loved it.

rosartt spun in an Iron Age Village

LisaB did a bit of stash tidying and finished off her last braid of the 2016 Tour de Fleece fibre- Campagne on Charollais.