There is always fun things to do in the "fibre world". Last weekend we formed a team of spinners and knitters and entered the International Back to Back Wool Challenge. This is a challenge that started in 1811 in Berkshire ,UK. and has continued world wide each year. The challenge is you get a raw fleece (preferably sheer the sheep at the contest) and without carding or any other prep work, spin the fleece into yarn and knit a sweater as fast as you can. The sweater pattern is a standard pattern to be used by everyone in the contest. You are allowed to have 7 people working on your team and one spare who fetches you water, food etc. The world record is just under 5 hours. The Canadian record was set in 2001 with a time of 7 hrs, 25 minutes. The InSein Yarnspinners from Manitoba hold this honour. It was a very tiring day but we had a lot of fun and finished our sweater in 10 hours and 41 minutes. Grace kindly rewarded us with a lovely lasagne dinner at her house afterwards.
