Join in Tour de Fleece 2025!
An online spin-along celebrating the joy of spinning, the goal of Tour de Fleece is to spin, challenge yourself, and simply have fun. Tour de Fleece runs from July 5 until July 27, and Tour de Fleece Femme runs from July 26 to August 3. All spinners are welcome!
We're celebrating with *15% off SweetGeorgia hand-dyed fibre to help you get ready for all the spinning fun.
For this year's spin-along, we're also looking forward to exploring limited-edition colourways:
BUTTERFLY GARDEN // hand-dyed on 100% white Finnish wool, created for Tour de Fleece 2025
COLOUR COLLAB // created in collaboration with our School of SweetGeorgia spinning instructors
*No coupon code needed, sale ends June 17. Butterfly Garden and fibre sets excluded from discount.
The fluff that gets transformed into stuff, spinning fibre is anything that can be twisted into yarn, including: wool, silk, cashmere, yak, cotton, flax, and so much more. At SweetGeorgia, we offer spinning fibre in the form of hand-dyed wool top, where the individual fibres have been aligned to create a smooth preparation. We dye these fibres on the following fibre bases:
Corriedale
Corriedale is a dual breed sheep that originates from New Zealand. The Corriedale fleece is a medium wool with a good crimp, a soft handle, and is very easy to spin. The wool produced is approximately 25 to 30 microns with a staple length of 3 to 5 inches. Corriedale fibre is excellent for hand spinning, hand felting and many other craft uses. We often recommend Corriedale as the first fibre for new spinners because it is easy to draft and easy to spin.
Targhee
Targhee is a sheep breed that is bred from Rambouillet, Columbia, Lincoln, and Corriedale crosses and produces a wool that has 25% long wool and 75% fine wool characteristics. This wool is soft at approximately 23 to 23.5 microns. Targhee has a very elastic quality that makes a springy, bouncy, and lofty finished yarn. The fibre also has a matte and spongey appearance.
BFL+Silk
Bluefaced Leicester 75% and Tussah Silk 25% blended together for a very lustrous and luxurious top. Bluefaced Leicester wool (BFL) is one of the softest, glossiest medium-long wools (longer fibre staple length), and naturally more durable, making it a favourite spinning fibre for many. The glittery tussah silk in this blend adds to the softness and shine, making this an indulgence to spin.
Polwarth+Silk
Polwarth wool is exceptionally soft, boasting a fine fibre diameter of 22 to 25 microns. Developed in 19th-century Australia, the Polwarth breed is a cross between 75% Merino and 25% Lincoln sheep, combining the best qualities of both breeds. Polwarth wool has a longer staple length (approximately 4 to 5 1/2 inches) when compared to Merino. This unique combination of softness and length makes Polwarth wool a favourite. Polwarth+Silk is easy to draft, super soft, with a decadent shimmer from the silk.
Trifecta
Felicia's ideal combination of fibres, our Trifecta Fibre bases starts with a base of untreated Bluefaced Leicester wool (BFL). Then adding in a soft, fine, mohair that is not a fuzzy mohair, but a smooth and strong mohair, this blend is finished with the addition of silk which makes everything beautiful, shimmery, and also strong. These three fibres come together in a fabulous blend that works beautifully for spinning socks along with a range of other projects.
