Saxon Merino' dyed in the fleece by Babylonglegs, Spun over the last couple of days, washed and dried today.
I picked out the blues and greens and ended up with 50gm of this.
Its slightly darker and more peacock colour in real life. This will be the next knit, probably a couple of headbands, once I've finished the hat that is one the needles at the moment.
I spotted an advert on a friends Facebook page, she was destashing some Saxony merino. half a fleece and a few oddments totalling around 1.5 k
Now I know that I'm on a fibre diet and really shouldn't be adding to the stack of fleece to be washed but I couldn't resist the chance to play with this and I also justified it by needing fine fibres to spin on the Nano.
The parcel has arrived, nice and squidgy
Did I mention that Sarah is a fibre artist? some of the fibres had been washed, and some had been dyed beautiful colours.
Some of the locks had been sorted ready for washing and the rest of the fleece is intact.
I had hoped to get much more fleece washed but its been a lousy summer and when the weather has been good we were generally at the other end of the country!.
I will still wash over the winter if we get some sunny windy days but otherwise the fleece list will stay pretty much the same for the time being.
So ( mainly for my records) the outhouse currently contains a black box of oddments and the following.
Saxony merino 1/2 fleece, more about this in the next post.
bfl/texel part fleece, a little less than 1/2
jacob 'scrumpy' full fleece
jacob 'okey' part fleece
ryeland (white) 1-2 fleece
Border leicester cross 1-2 fleece
Shetland assortment small amounts
Bowmont about 400 gm
grey romney 3/4 fleece
small bag alpaca
I've seen longer lists over the years !
Indoor fleece washed fleece stash currently unlisted but amount to several pillowcases full waiting to be carded or combed.
The general plan is to process and spin these before bringing more into the workroom.
