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| Spread it out on the kitchen floor, and admire all that dirt and grease while you can. |
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| Divide into bite-size pieces! |
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| Soak in some hot water and unicorn power scour, rinse (soak in clean water), and repeat. |
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| Mix some dye in a pot, cook (but don't boil) the clean fleece in it, drain, rinse in some slightly soapy sink water (hot) and then some clean water, drain and squeeze in a towel. |
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| Spread out the damp fleece to dry. |
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| Spread the fleece out thinly and pick out the grass, beetles, felted lumps and dirty tips. Find yourself a slave to crank the carder handle 50,000,000 times. |
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| Stop to compare |
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| Spread the whole fleece out on the bed and take pictures :) |
I dyed 11 of the 14 lots, and left 3 the natural color. My 1.4kilo fleece is now down to 982g of good stuff, and it's ready for the Mix Cycle.
Next: Mixing the reds, purple and blues with some mohair. That is, after I see a lady about a loom!
4 comments:
Oh wow! Looks gorgeous.
Splendid work, Sis. Fun quick run through. Love the slave part. Did he do his time? He he. The carded fibre looks delicious.
He helped me card 3 of the batts, I think, which are about 40g each. "Feeding it", as he called it. Jasmine had a go, too, but I had to give her the sack. She kept reassuring the wool that it wouldn't hurt Every Five Seconds! lol.
Great post! I love all the colours you dyed, like a happy woolly rainbow :)
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