Jananas

On one of our winter cottage trips, Nancy (the lovely owner of Log Cabin Yarns) gave me a bag of raw, unprocessed fleece from a sheep named Lucy. I skirted the fleece to get rid of the really icky parts, washed and rinsed and washed and rinsed and washed some more to get it clean(er), and then laid it out to dry. I then packed it away in 2 ziploc bags to store it because it needed to be carded.

Yesterday I tackled the first bag of Lucy’s now clean fleece. I ended up with 9 batts of fiber! Here’s a photo to give some perspective on the size of the ziploc bag versus the amount of space the batts take up. The floor looks dirty because most of the last of the vegetable matter came out when I was carding it (eep).

I don’t have a project in mind yet for this fiber. I have to finish carding the second bag and then spin it all up. However, it will be enough to make a bigger project.

Its been pretty exciting to take a raw fleece and turn it into something spinnable. It’ll be even more exciting to see it turn into yarn and then into a knitted object.

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