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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

Tour de Fleece Day 14: covered the last of the blue on the bottom of the bobbin just in time to start the next section of blue! I’m not always a fan of spinning high silk contents, but this is delightful.

The top view of a spinning wheel bobbin. The bobbin is covered in green and blue and teal yarn. The yarn is very fine and shiny from the silk content.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Tour de Fleece Day 13: most of the way through this section of dark green!

The top view of a spinning wheel bobbin. The top of the yarn on the bobbin is light green, the middle is dark green, and the bottom is blue. The yarn is shiny because it’s half silk.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Tour de Fleece Day… 11? 12? How do we count the rest day? Got my 15 minutes in right at the end of the day before bed, so the photo quality isn’t great. Mostly just a little green addition at the top of the bobbin.

The top view of a spinning wheel bobbin. There is a very fine yarn on the bobbin. The colours are a gradient running from green at the top to blue at the bottom. The shades of green and blue give “tropical bird” energy to me.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Tour de Fleece Day 10: late night spinning today, so terrible lighting. I’m happy to have covered the last of the orange leader thread poking through, and made it to the first colour change!

A poorly lit overhead view of a spinning wheel bobbin. Thin singles of yarn range from a deep blue at the bottom, through teal, up to green at the top of the bobbin. The ball of blue and green fibre can be seen on the floor in the distance.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

I’m really loving the colours in this braid! At least I have that going for me as I’m pretty sure this spin is going to last the rest of the tour 😂 what’s your next spin?

Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Tour de Fleece Day 9: Spinning the fibre I prepped yesterday. I forgot how much slower progress looks with such a fine weight spin.

The top view of a spinning wheel bobbin. It’s barely covered with fine blue singles yarn. The leader thread, which is orange, is poking through in spots.

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The yarn has no real pre-planned purpose, so it’s not really concerning to me if I get yarn end up more “sibling skeins” than a true match.

Bonus: I watched the stage of the tour as I prepped.

Day 8 of the Tour de Fleece: I spent time this morning prepping. A bunch of my stash is a bit compressed, so I teased it open a bit and then very lightly pre-drafted to bring everything together. This fibre is a wool/silk blend from @goodfibrations.bluesky.com

Blue and green shiny fibre is held by a hand in front of a screen. The screen shows the Tour De France stage 8 with 75.3 km left.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

I knit the -neon- cuffs of these socks over the winter, and then rapidly realized that I did not have enough light for tiny black yarn. I’ve pulled them both out and I’m going to try to power through them while I have the light. (Yarn is all Leo and Roxy)

A pair of partially finished socks sit on a black table. The cuff of the socks are black, and the unfinished feet of the socks are black, but the leg of the socks is neon rainbow stripes!

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Day 7 of the Tour de France: finished the neon braid! The two bobbins seem fairly different, so I think we’re looking at chain plying?

A spinning wheel bobbin from above. There is purple yarn at the top of the bobbin, then pink, then orange at the bottom.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Day 6 of the Tour de Fleece: we’re through the purple and most of way through pink, which means we’re almost done this braid!

A top view of a spinning wheel bobbin - the top is purple gradiating to pink most of the way down the bottom. At the bottom the bobbin is green from the previous layer of colour.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Day five of tour de fleece: Left spinning right to the end of the day, but spent more than 15 minutes so that I could cover the bobbin with a pretty gradient.

A spinning wheel bobbin from above, showing a gradient of yarn running from purple at the top, through blue, to green at the bottom.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

I love when it works perfectly like that!

Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Thanks! It’s hard to capture how neon all the colours are on this wool!

Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Got my Tour de Fleece spinning in just after work today.

A top view of a spinning wheel, showing the bobbin is covered in green yarn. This morning it was about half green/half yellow.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Day three of the Tour de Fleece - I did get in my 15 minutes at the end of a busy day!

The top of a spinning wheel, showing a bobbin. The top half of the yarn on the bobbin is green and the bottom half is yellow.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Didn’t sleep well, so got some tour de fleece spinning done in the morning!

A bobbin on a spinning wheel. The spun wool is yellow gradating to a very light green at the top. If you compare it to yesterday’s photo, the green is on the opposite side because I did a whole layer of spinning on the bobbin.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

I’m not setting any goals for tour de fleece, but I did spin for 15 minutes today! I finished the matching braid quickly after buying them at PEI Fibre festival, but stalled out on this one half way through.

An odd top down view of a spinning wheel to focus on the bobbin on the flyer. The bobbin has neon green fading to neon yellow at the bottom. More neon colours are on the pedals below.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Progress on my plain vanilla socks! The next KAL sock pattern dropped yesterday, and I’ve started, but it’s not really drag-around with me knitting.

A pink, mint, beige, and gray stripped knitted sock sits on a blue table. Where there should be a toe, there are four yellow knitting needles. The ball of yarn with the fifth needle sits next to the sock.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

I have three socks waiting for a toe graft, so clearly it’s time to cast on another! The next KAL pattern isn’t out yet, so I’m just casting on a vanilla self striping.

The start of cuff of a pink knit sock cuff on yellow needles sits next to the pink ball of yarn on a black table. There are clover flowers in a small bottle behind them.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Sock one, foot take two, is going well! I’m hoping to be done today. The yarn is @indigodragonfly.bsky.social and the stitch markers are Juniper and Ginger

An almost finished orange knitted sock sits on a grass background. The sock leg is textured using knits and purls. The sock foot has a green stitch marker every 10 rows past the last gusset decrease.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

They look lovely!! I think I’m doing the whole series in a yellow/orange gradient to fill similar colour gaps in my sock collection.

Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

They are! I hadn’t knit a pair in so long, so I impulse cast on a pair a few weeks ago!

Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

It was the first sock! I did rip it all back to the gusset to fix it, I would _know_ otherwise 😂

Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

It’s interesting to see when some knitting reflexes kick in… Apparently I decreased to my normal 32 for the bottom of the foot… except that wasn’t the number I was supposed to decrease to. I didn’t notice until I was more than halfway through the toe 🤦‍♀️

An orange knitted sock with needles on the toe, with a second needle run through right before the toe. There are 32 stitches on the needle. There are not supposed to be 32 stitches on the needle.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

You know what? You’re right, I should cast on another sock…

A pile of four half finished knitted socks. Three of them are rainbow stripes, and one of them is blue stripes.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I have been sufficiently nerd sniped to find out how different my feet sizes are…

Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I’m trying to get reacquainted with my stash after years of looking at it through a sweater only lens. After knitting my first patterned sock in years, it felt like maybe time for more, maybe some throwbacks to older patterns. I’ve cast on a Jaywalker sock in some deep stash.

A blue and purple ball of self striping yarn sits on a table next to the cuff and first inch of a knitted sock. The cuff is 2 by 2 ribbing, and the body of the sock will become zigzagging stripes.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

I cast these on to avoid dealing with the fact I was knitting a second plain sock with 2.5mm when I knit the first with 2.25mm!

Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

We have socks!! I don’t know when I last knit patterned socks, but when @estregger.bsky.social posted about her cast on, it felt like something I should do to expand my knitting sphere. Socks are Flourish socks by Helen Stewart in yarn from @indigodragonfly.bsky.social’s yarn dying camp!

Two bright yellow socks are stretched on sock blockers, sitting on a wooden table. The front of the socks are a pretty lacy pattern, while the back is plain stockinette.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Once again, I’ve learned a valuable lesson about knitting lace in meetings. I will obviously be repeating the mistake again today 😂

The start of a bright yellow knitted lace sock sits on a pile of yarn ripped back out because of a mistake. The ball of yarn sits next to it.

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Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Between a hockey game and the first half of the Halifax Tides game, I’ve reknit the section I pulled back, knit the toe, and grafted it. One down!

A yellow knit sock stretched out on a sock blocker sits on a laptop keyboard. The sock has a lacy top of the foot and front of the leg. The laptop screen is showing a women’s soccer game between Vancouver and Halifax.

Meg AK @meakknits.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Somehow, I can stick to a lace pattern through watching 2 periods of tense overtime hockey, but then lost it during meetings this afternoon. When I reached the toe, I found myself missing 4 stitches because I missed a yarnover a while back. I’m ripped back and back on track.

A yellow lace sock-in-progress is covered in yarn barf (the yarn from unravelled knitting). It’s hard to see in the photo, but I actually ripped back row by row on the front needle only until I reached the right number of stitches again, then threaded the needle through the back at the same row.