The real challenge came along with Monday, combining these TdF goals along with the day job!

Today's music is Wheels by inglas and can be found on Music Alley.

We're off and spinning fiber into yarn as the cyclist tour France.  I have set daily goals and hope to release reports periodically during the TdF.

Music today is Mountains by Katy Pfaffl and can be found on MusicAlley.

Once again Team YST is planning to spin every day of the Tour de France for Ravelry's Tour de fleece.  Come join all the fun and cheerleading and inspirations.

I talk about the decision to do lots of fiber processing for this year's challenge.  Just a hint, there's lots of Shetland!

Music in todays podcast is by Dan Montgomery and is called Spinning My Wheels, appropiate!  It can be found on Music Alley.

You can find me on Twitter here which will give the links to the audioboos I will try and publish daily during the TdF.  Or go to Audioboo and search for YST to find them.

We'd all love as many of you listeners to come and join us on Ravelry for the annual Tour de Fleece June 29th through July 21st.  Team Yarnspinnerstales can be found at the Tour de Fleece group under the wild card team thread, or search the groups for Team Yarnspinnerstales and you should find it.  See you there!

Not all of my experiments with spinning work, and in the first part of this podcast I talk about my recent attempt and non success making a yarn.

The review is for the book The Spinner's Book of Yarn Designs by Sarah Anderson. 

Music in today's podcast can be found on Music Alley  The interlude is from Spin Win It by Ex Norwegian.  The closing song Learning to Balance is by Daniel McCormick.

A follow up on the skein plied with commercial yarns.  I split each type and washed one half in order to compare and see if it made any significant difference in the yarns.

The second part of the podcast is a ramble about what I learned about myself as a spinner, as I prepared a fiber swap box for a swap partner.

Music is from Music Alley.  The theme song is by Jon Caspi and the First Gun.  An interlude around the word twist included music by Filip Marian and M C Robin.  A second interlude was Fantasy for Two by Michael Van Laar. 

Closing song is The Learning Curve by Paul Rose

YST now has a Twitter account, and I have started posting three minute audios through Audioboo as tweets.

The why and hows of plying your handspun singles with commercial yarns.

Music is from Music Alley and includes an interlude called Yarn by Cyrusfx and the closing song Mistreating Yarn Blues by Jacob Haller.

Photos of the yarns can be found here on my blog.

This podcast episode is another review of a spinners' exchange.  This time the challenge was to spin as fine a thread, fondly known as froghair spinning.  In the podcast I review what the spinners and myself learned with this challenge.

Music is from Music Alley and has the theme 'thread'.  The interlude is Hyperthread by Podcast Troubadour.  The closing song is Threads of Time by Jennifer Avalon. 

Today's podcast reviews a time when a dozen different spinners all decided to spin angora and share their samples with each other.

Music is from Music Alley and is very nicely named All Things Rabbit by Michael Bellar.

Goodbye 2012! It was a good year for spinning projects and other things in my life.  This short podcast talks about how I look at the new year.

Music is from Music Alley provided by various musicians who willing share their music with podcasters.  In return, I hope you give them your support, if you like their music.

Theme song:  Spin-A song for all children  by Jon Caspi

Interlude: A Fresh Start by The Havenots

First ending song:  It's a New Years Day by Denise Moser on the Cyber PR Label

Second closing song:  Happy New Year by Colie Brice

Best wishes for a wonderful new year to my listeners!