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| emsmommy5 |
Posted - Jun 08 2011 : 4:41:54 PM
WHile I am totally excited to get this fresh off the sheep bag of wool. What do I do now? It's smelly and dirty from the farmyard.
What's the best way to clean and prepare it for spinning. Being a complete newbie to spinning, I have only bought already clean wool.
How's the best way to go about this????
Thanks in advance.
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| emsmommy5 |
Posted - Jun 09 2011 : 6:23:28 PM
THanks for the reference. I read until my brain hurt! I am still feeling a little overwhelmed by the prospect of the cleaning and cleaning and more cleaning!
Plus my friend came by the fire station today to let me know she had dropped off a huge bag of wool from two sheep they sheared over the weekend. So now I have a bag of angora goat fiber and a bag of beautiful chocolate brown sheep wool. All to be cleaned, carded, and made into something!
Why on earth I do this to myself I do not know. =/
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| Sheep Mom 2 |
Posted - Jun 08 2011 : 9:52:47 PM
Check out the posts on page 24 of the Sheep and Goat thread under barnyard buddies. http://www.maryjanesfarm.org/snitz/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=26506&whichpage=24 We were discussing wool picking and washing there. If you look on Sarita's blog on past posts she posted pictures there. I hope that helps.
Blessings, Sheri
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| natesgirl |
Posted - Jun 08 2011 : 8:12:48 PM
I'm signed up for a class on spinning next month and a class on cleaning and carding a few weeks after that. I did go pick up some books from the library to learn a little bit before I signed up and paid so much for the classes, just to be sure it was something I would want to do. There are some really detailed books with lots of pictures if you like to go that route!
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