Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Tour de Fleece 2019, Days 14-17

I'm going to be honest here, days 14-16 look very much the same as days 11-13 : More white Lincoln singles.  The only difference is I now have 2 bobbins full, and I have to skein them off now!  Day 17 was the 2nd 'rest day' of the Tour, and since I had the afternoon off work I didn't want to waste it completely.  So I washed some fleece!  The first fleece to hit the spa was a Clun Forest that came from The Spinning Loft.  I started out with about 9 oz and will have to give it a second weigh in when it has finished drying.  It had a bit of VM and some yellowing, but was overall pretty clean and only smelled vaguely "sheepy".  After 2 baths with some Unicorn Scour and 1 soaking rinse, it came out bright white and very, very fluffy.  Here's a photo of the raw fleece next to a tiny bit of the first batch I washed:


I am really looking forward to getting to spin this one up - it seems very springy and light, and MUCH different than the Lincoln I've been working on. 

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