Two bicycle panniers fit 2 kilograms of Zwartbles fleece 😃
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#Zwartbles fleece to pick up for free at 15k cycling distance. I cannot resist.
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Having fun sampling the Schwarznase lamb fleece. Quite a different beast than the Border Leicester I'm also working on. High micron but very silky and super long staple. Easy to comb except when there's wind, so I moved inside after one pass. Still think it may work for socks. Perhaps too prickly.
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Some people feel an urge to clean their house in spring. I don't. But I do feel an urge to wash fleece. I'm only about one quarter into processing a very large fleece that I washed at the end of last summer. So I took the small bit of Walliser Schwarznase lamb fleece that I got for free with my last big fleece purchase.
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Happy to share some comb waste with the birds.
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Started playing around on the drum carder with some fibers that @venite gave me and some fiber from stash. I try to make a colour gradient of two colours with some white alpaca added for texture and more interesting colour. I plan to use it on hand spindles, But it's a lot so I'll probably do part of it on a spinning wheel.
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Combing sheep fleece is an insane amount of work and pure magical transformation.
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The weather was so glorious that I spent the afternoon outside practising with my English combing station and a giant Border Leicester fleece. Made my first combed top! A whopping 35 grams - 5 times more than in the picture - after an afternoon's workout. Not a dent into the giant fleece. The fleece is full of vegetable matter, but also incredibly fine and pretty.
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