Kicking off week one of year 16 of Year of Projects with the following things:

Handspinning – Tour de Fleece: The Tour started on Saturday, July 4th, and I pulled out two 140-gram gradient packs from Hilltop Cloud Fibres in the UK. The colorway is Wild Rose, and it’s a blended roving of bamboo, Blue-Faced Leicester and Merino wools. The colors shift from tangerine through peach and salmon to a dark rose.

My plan is to spin each of these onto separate bobbins and then ply together for a long subtly-shifting 2-ply gradient yarn in a fingering weight. I’m through the first maybe 40 grams of bobbin 1 so far.

A Long Winter’s Nap: I have been slowly adding stitches to this one off and on. I decided to work this using a color completion method that was a success for my last full-coverage cross-stitch. I have 7 colors completed and if you kind of squint, you can start to make out Santa’s facial features (his eyes mostly).

Jane Austen 250th Anniversary Quilt: I put in quite a bit of time over the holiday weekend here in the States on this one. I have added 3 of the 4 appliqué block borders. From here I’ve got 1 striped border, 1 more pieced border, and then a final striped border to finish this one up. I would love to try to finish it up in July and get it sent off to the long-arm quilter for a custom quilting in August.

No pictures for these last two things, but I cast on for a new fingering-weight lace-yoke summer top (not really enough worked to see anything), and as I was cruising along on my Transfer Point shawl, I checked my stitch count and realized I had missed an entire 24-row section back where the contrast color is used the first time. So that one has been ripped back almost to the beginning, and I’ll go forward from there.

That’s all this week YOP’ers! Hope if you are getting hit with excessive summer heat you’ve got some relief in sight soon.