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Sheep to Shawl

Washing the fleece

Since I haven’t uploaded any pictures of us carding, i thought i might explain how we washed our wensleydale-cross fleece. I have had experience washing only 2 fleeces before, with my friend Gen. The first was Speckles. Speckles was some kind of targhee blend that had really crimpy (frizzy) wool. …

Dirty Fleece

Hooray! The fleece that we need to prepare for the pre-knit portion of our shawl arrived! Here is a crappy camera-phone picture of the filthy wensleydale-cross lamb fleece. Eeew. It supposed to be white… Gen and I (mostly Gen) washed it up at my old apartment on sunday and it …

It is beginning

After assembling a 7 person knitting and spinning team, we will be participating in the Sheep to Shawl competition at the Lambtown USA Festival .’Sheep to Shawl’ is a demonstration that shows how wool is made into garments. In 4 1/2 hours, a sheep is shorn, its wool is carded …