Mastodawn

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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Elizenery🔻Feb 13

Combing sheep fleece is an insane amount of work and pure magical transformation.
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Elizenery🔻Feb 8

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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Elizenery🔻Oct 12

New second hand wool toy. Wingham English comb station.
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Elizenery🔻Sep 28, 2025

Today was perfect weather for doing some fiber prep (and bicycle maintenance) outside on the deck. I took a manageable 240 grams of washed Clun Forest fleece. It had too much lanolin still in for dying. So first I fluffed up all the locks to allow the soap and acid dye to work. The container was completely full after that. Then wash, rinse, rinse, rinse, dye, rinse, rinse, rinse.
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Elizenery🔻Sep 14, 2025

I finally finished the prepping of the Gotland fleece today. It took almost forever.
I'll soon finish spinning the long fibers and carding the shorter ones can wait. I already have some batts made for my next spinning wheel spin.
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Elizenery🔻Aug 24, 2025

Today was a good day for doing some blending on the drum carder outside. Made three small batts of the darker color fot the body of a softie and one lighter and softer (+alpaca) one for the belly and the face. Used leftover fleece. Some self dyed Clun Forest, an unknown breed local brown sheep, some of the shorter Gotland locks and some alpaca.
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ink and yarn Jun 11, 2025

Further update: a tiny soft sample from the "waste" that I hand-carded. I picked out some neps during carding, and many more when I spun the singles. This is only about 3g, so it didn't take very long.

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ink and yarn Jun 9, 2025

Second update: here is the last of the locks, a little damp still. It sure does look like three years of growth, as if he *tried* to shed the fleece, but didn't quite get there.

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