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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 …

Almost a vest

I am 3/4 done with the alpaca vest. i finished the first front panel the other night. i finally cracked and ordered some handpainted yarn. good thing, too since they are currently completely out of worsted weight! I swatched it and it looks great. i found out that the fleece …