The Weekly Wool

I know it may be early in the week but I’ve been enjoying some woolly escapades already.

I’ve recently received some beautiful Shetland X fleeces and a Romanov fleece from a neighbor and I’ve been processing away. Below is a quick little snippet of sorting and skirting out in my yard.

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I’m getting much better a skirting and sorting efficiently and effectively (it helps that I get to do this at my day job as well!) but my home processing is a work-in-progress. I’m quite fussy about my fibre prep (IMAGINE!) because I’ve been so dang lucky to enjoy batts from epic creators like Melly Knits, so I feel my fibre processing needs some fine tuning and tweaking to be up to my quality preference.

Regardless, practice makes progress, so I’ve been getting very friendly with my wool box picker and my drum carder. I’m pretty pleased with the two batts of Shetland X that I’ve picked and carded today. They pretty smooth (they do have a few neps) and I’m just cracking to sample them. I might just have to spin a little bit on my Kiwi tonight. 😉