Hi there! This is the official page for our Tour de Fleece [TdF] team of 2015, Team Nevermore – you can find a team roster, links to all the important posts, and the prizes all listed here. I’ll also post up the “rules” such as they are, and some images for you to steal and use in your TdF posts and around the net!
BIG thanks to StarAthena, who started this whole thing in 2006, for giving us permission to do our own thing and use her graphics. She’s the bomb and super smart for thinking this up in the first place!
This year, the Tour de Fleece starts Saturday July 4th and runs until Sunday July 26th, 2015.
Guidelines (NOT RULES):
* Spin every day the Tour rides, if possible. Saturday July 4th through Sunday July 26th. Days of rest: Monday July 13th and Tuesday July 21st. (Just like the actual tour.)
* Spin something challenging on the challenge day (usually the toughest high mountain stage: this year, it’s Stage 18, on Thursday, July 23rd, when they will climb 5 mountains, including the 1,924m high Col du Glandon)
* Wear yellow on Sunday July 26th to announce victory. Why not wear yellow on any day you feel particularly successful? (Yellow is the color of the race leader in the Tour – but here we are all ‘race leaders’)
* Other colors if desired: Green (sprinter – think FAST), Polka-dot (climber – as in uphill), and white (rookie)
And most importantly: challenge yourself, but HAVE FUN. That’s what this is ALL about! I plan to share as many pics and posts about my progress as possible, both to keep myself accountable and to encourage others. Your blog posts will also get linked here if you share them with me!
All posts about the Tour de Fleece can be found with the “tour de fleece” tag on this blog:
https://www.threeravens.net/tag/tour-de-fleece/.
The original announcement page this year where folks pledged to join in:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/nevermoreforevermore/permalink/483001855188398/
This is a closed Facebook group, but you can easily join by putting in a request; you may also pledge to ride along with us by posting a reply to this page and I will add you!
TEAM PARTICIPANTS
- Team Captain: Christiane Knight of Threeravens Fiber Studio
- Monica Lowe
- Crystal Calhoun
- Suzanne Smith Collier
- Emily Novikov
- Alisa Fuzz LeGrave
- Deki Mckenney
- Lacie Chapman
- Knitty Lizzy
- Jess Broadway
- Navi Sama
- Vickie Cameron
- Dayna Mankowski
- Heather Rats
- Emma Nicholson
- Peggy Bass
- Heather Storta
- Brenda Wolfson Mendes
- Adrienne Munn
- Stephanie Brown
- Sue Lowe-Moore
- Bonnie Lee Barrett
- Stephanie Mcguckin
- Rani Loveswool
- Alyssa Rudd
- Charlene Tyger
- Jacquie Chalmers
- Katherine Sproull
- Robyn Story
- Hilori Faith Thompson
- Scarlet St. James
- Kymberli Mundwiller
- Jeri Lynn’s Farm
- Charlotte Franklin Masi
- Michaela Stanton Hutchison
- Rhonda Jewell
- Adele Michelsen
- Elysa Darling
- Ann Mikeal
- Sharon Steinhoff
- Tracey Perry
- Laura Abbott
- Martha Maingross
- Jama Kilgore
- Monica Whipple
- Linda Schad
- Samantha Tyger
- Chrissy Joy Bell
- Rose Duke
- Darlene Hodge
- Melanie Brown
- Wendy Nollner
- Rose East
- Lisa Steenberg
- Kate White
- Nancy Pearl
- Ann Mikeal
- Kathy Withers
- Pat Baker
PRIZES
From Threeravens Fiber Studio: a Treat Yourself To Inspiration Box, filled with a selection of some various yarns/threads for plying or for adding effects… there will also be some fibers for adding into your work in various ways… I’ll also include beads or trinkets or feathers or other unusual objects for add-ins. It’s your job to add the imagination!
From Threeravens Fiber Studio: 2 ounces of custom-carded fiber that I’ll blend to your specifications. Build the batt of your dreams!
From Charmed Fibers: The winner’s choice of a center-pull alpaca roving bump in either dark brown, white, caramel brown, or light fawn! Beautiful fiber!
From The Pink Woobie: the winner’s choice of either an octopus or a Cthulhu can or bottle cozy, hand crocheted by Chrissy! These are so cute 😀
From Broadway Creations: 1.8 batt in natural grey wool, natural black suri alpaca, and black soffsilk. Look at that gorgeous custom tag!
From Broadway Creations, #2 prize: 3oz batt of luscious Merino wool, Firestar, and faux Cashmere.
From Adrienne Munn: 2oz+ of yummy hand carded rolags in white yak and Soffsilk. I am jealous of whomever wins these!
From California Custom Creations: The winner’s choice of a hand knit pair of socks or shawlette, custom made for you! I own several things from Knitty Lizzy and I recommend her work HIGHLY.
From Misty Mountain Makers: a 4oz braid of hand dyed, very soft 100% wool combed top! This is such a perfect Team Nevermore colorway.
From Rose Duke: [1] 7.4 oz of Rambouillet Fleece, dark brown [pic coming]
[2] 100 grams of Sari Silk threads [pic coming]
[3] 1.25 grams Schoppel Fingerwoll in purple/deep yellow/red [pic coming]
MORE TO BE ANNOUNCED – we have some GREAT ones coming!
IMAGES
Large Team Nevermore image: https://www.threeravens.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/TdF-2015.png
Tour de Fleece yellow image [credit goes to StarAthena]: http://i2.wp.com/www.threeravens.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/LeTourdeFleece.jpg
PERTINENT BLOG POSTS
ALL posts pertaining to Tour de Fleece: https://www.threeravens.net/tag/tour-de-fleece/
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