Bad news: I came nowhere near getting ALL my fleeces teased. :-( I brought the rest home; I'll tease them here and take them back to the processor at OFFF. That means I won't know the answer to my contest or have most of my roving to send out as soon as I thought.
Good news: I DID come home with some roving! The processor ran the first fleece I teased through her (giant, professional) carder while I worked on fleece #2. I haven't had a chance to look at it closely yet, but it should be a good test of the end product I'll get, as that fleece (Bella's) probably had the most VM of any of them. Leza gave me a bit of roving from the clean-out of the machine that I'll spin up so I can post photos of both the roving and a spun sample.
This was yesterday's sunrise (grainy from the digital zoom). We had at least two days in a row of both red suns rising and red full moons rising. There's a lot of dust and smoke in the atmosphere which I'm sure is to blame, but it was still rather eerie. Now our late summer hot spell is over; this morning it's cloudy and our highs are supposed to be back down in the 70s for the next week.Stay tuned for some big news from the chicken yard at . . .
3 comments:
Gorgeous sunrise!
Just to clarify Michelle, are we to guess the weight after the fleeces have been turned into roving, or just after they have been washed and teased?
Michelle,
I was encouraged by a friend to look at your blog because of the picture of the wool processing machine. Could you tell me the name of the processor or the brand of machine? I am contemplating starting a small mill and have been fact gathering on machines.
Wonderful looking sheep in your pictures.
Ellyn
ellynbj54@sbcglobal.net
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