A very nice sheep farmer posted in a group I'm in on FB saying he had a ton of polypay fleeces he wanted to just give away. Honestly, I thought it was a scam or, at least, it could be a scam. Who gives polypay fleeces away for free?! He just wanted to charge shipping. Given that I really wanted to process and spin up a fleece this year, I figured it was worth giving it a go. It came today! I'm so happy! Next up, I have skirting to do (going to skirt this one heavily and use whatever I kick out as compost/mulch in the garden), then collect enough rainwater to do a fermented suint method cleaning as the first cleaning. Then, scour and dry. Then, I will have to decide whether to card it up or comb it on my new 3-D printed Viking combs. I've been testing them on a Romney fleece I just didn't like on the carder, and they're working pretty well! It's been a long time since I've fully processed my own fleece. It's time.
My FND physical therapist told me last year that spinning yarn is a great PT exercise for me and that I'm supposed to do it for 15-20 minutes every day. It's hard to remember to do it every day, but this project should help towards that. I've been toying with doing a more traditional fair isle sweater using natural dyes and some naturally colored wool that I have in the stash. It would be a big project, but I think it might be doable, especially with this fleece to add to it. In the end, the wool has to tell me what it wants to be. We'll see what it wants as soon as it's all clean.
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CarinaI go by Bina on Ravelry, have for years, and used to have a knit blog ages ago. With everything going on with Ravelry and elsewhere, I think it's time to bring back the knit blog. Archives
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