2024 Tour de Fleece – Classy Squid Batts

I got a late start to my TdF spinning since we were away on vacation in June and I hadn’t pre-planned what I was going to spin this year. Since we’ve got a lot going on right now, I didn’t want to commit to a huge project, so I decided to work on spinning my stash of Classy Squid batts. They’re fairly bite-sized projects that I can just do as many as I get done and call it good.

After a bumpy start (literally) with the first one, I decided to just let the batts spin how they want. I am picking out some of the lumpier, more belligerent pieces of stuff. I’m pretty sure I’m going to leave them as singles with the tentative plan of using them as weft in weaving projects.

7/4-8: Cuttlefish Batt 104 – red, black, gray, white.
7/9-11: Cuttlefish Batt 082 – red, orange
7/12 : Cuttlefish Batt 061 – orange, yellow, black
7/15-24: Cuttlefish Batt 079 – orange, red
7/31: Cuttlefish Batt 068 – red, blue
8/4: Cuttlefish Batt 066 – blue, copper

8/6-7: Cuttlefish Batt 069 – purple, blue

And here is all of the finished yardage calculations:

No. 104 – 137 wraps; 58gr./2 oz.; 228 yd. unsoaked; 198 yd. soaked

No. 082 – 136 wraps; 58 gr./ 2 oz.; 226 yd. unsoaked; 196 yd. soaked

No. 061 – 108 wraps; 59 gr./ 2 oz.; 180 yd. unsoaked; 156 yd. soaked
(Holy messy, Batman! All the tiny loose strings that shed during the spinning. )

No. 079 – 155 wraps; 57 gr./ 2 oz.; 258 yd. unsoaked; 224 yd. soaked

No. 068 – 149 wraps; 58 gr./2 oz.; 248 yd. unsoaked; 215 yd. soaked

No. 066 – 163 wraps; 63gr./2.2 oz.; 271 yd. unsoaked; 235 yd. soaked

No. 069 – 159 wraps; 59 gr./2 oz.; 265 yd. unsoaked; 230 yd. soaked

Total yd. unsoaked – 1,676
Total yd. soaked – 1,454