. . . and I swear the stuff could have been the blob that ate New York!
The lighting is so bad lately that I can’t get a good shot of the color, but it’s a very dark grey made warmer by the chocolate-bleached tips. This fleece:
But, it’s done. 1200 grams of carded batts out of 2kg of fleece. 1200 grams in 28 lovely, lofty, smushy batts. There was approximately 210 grams of waste from the flicking and carding, so figure that about 590 grams of weight was lost in washing. In other words, approximately 30% of the 2kg weight was suint, and total weight loss in wash/prep was 40%. That sounds like a large number, but it really isn’t. Not for a fairly high-grease finer wool fleece.
But it is a bit of an intimidating hulk, isn’t it?
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Wow, the pile of fiber looks manageable until you have the full view on the couch! Talk about buried alive under the wool! Have a good spin!
Woooonderful! Happy new spinning year!
Love the grey colour!
Oh man! That looks so cozy.
Sorry I haven’t stopped by in ages–life got busy and then my computer died. I’ve been sloooooowly salvaging all my blog feeds again, and I got absurdly lucky and remembered yours this weekend while my buddy was in town.
I’m glad to hear you got some time to cool off-I know how that goes. And the phrase about let the shoulders down totally describes me a lot lately. I’ve taken a week off of work, and it’s certainly helped a bit with that.
All that fiber and yarn looked glorious! Maybe I should try a round up post similar, even though we’re already over half through January.
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