I was doing some de-vm-ing of the free Zwartbles fleece that I picked up at a nearby farm a few weeks ago. After a good while I started noticing the crackly sound when pulling on the locks. Not good. Much of it is brittle and if you pull hard, the locks break. I guess this is part of doing fiber works. I'll try to pull out the softest and strongest locks to make a hat or two, use some of it for stuffing softies and throw out most of this fleece.
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Unpacked the giant fleece I bought early spring. Picked out a little fraction to soak overnight and scour tommorrow. Hadn't taken a close look before and mixed feelings. Many of the tips are matted but otherwise it's pretty and quite soft. Also it had little vegetable matter in it.
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A little bit worried that the ply might be a bit too loose :/
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Wet blocking the big handspun waffle sweater to be. Measured gauge before. Drying flat. Measure again. Then I'll have it on a good coat hanger for a day. Measure again. After that a fitting session to determine how long body and sleeves should be. I am now ±92.000 stitches in of a roughly estimated total of 130.000.
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#tourDeFleece2026 is upcoming. (Starting on 2026 07 04)
Who is participating? I try to join this year. Not quite sure about the project I chose, yet.
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This went quite quickly. I guess I'm finally learning to embrace the texture. The short stapled roving works better for supported spindles than for my cross arm spindles. Now on with two wheel spun singles and then ply the three together.
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Almost half way with the next spindle spun single of this colour experiment. It's interesting that the red now looks red whereas in the precious yarn it looks raspberry pink. It's the same fiber. I blended each colour 45/45 with it's neighbour in the photo below and then added 10% white alpaca.
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Looking at you @venite
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