Just to let the spinners on here know, there's a new spinning event this year, BritSpin.
It's been set up by Jane Cooper (of
Woolsack fame) and Jan Ellison (driving force behind Fibre East)
It'll run 11-14th Oct, which is during UK (excluding Shetland
) Wool Week
Details are a little scant at present, but the central thrust is teams of 10 spinners spinning as much as they can over the four days. However we are assured it's not all about quantity and there will be other events announced over the months which will be less focussed on mileage.
I just thought it worth mentioning on here. Any appetite for a TAS team?
Personally, having to churn out quantities of yarn in a proscribed time frame with other people depending on me would fill me with dread, as smallholding life so often seems to interfere with my crafting time! But it might be of interest to others - and I'd certainly be very happy to coast alongside as a cheerleader / enabler, spinning as and when I can.
There's a BritSpin website
linky and a Ravelry group
linky (which is where most of it will happen, I'm told.)