April 27, 2005
My work here is finished....
...I got a fleece from a registered Bluefaced Leicester. Her name is Charade and she's 2 years old, isn't she cute?
When I first got combs, the first thing I went searching for was BFL. What I discovered is that you can get almost any other kind of fleece easily via eBay or googling, but BFLs are hard to come by! Networking online eventually led me to Stonesthrow Farm in Vermont, and this came to me.
It's the whole fleece, 2 pounds after skirting, lovely curls about 5 inches long. When I start fooling with it I'll take more pictures, it was hard to get a good shot of the beautiful curly locks. This is one CLEAN fleece - the tips are so clean you have to look to figure out which end is which. This will be a beautiful thing to work with.
I need more time to process fleece and spin. Oh, and knit. Anyone have any to send me???
LisaS, do you hear the whooshing sound? You are doomed, woman, doomed.
Posted by Prudence at April 27, 2005 05:34 PMI have no words except WOW! But my eyes are extremely green right now.
Posted by: Roi on April 27, 2005 05:54 PMUh huh...fingers in ears...lalalalalalalalaaaaaaa.
I have a big fat basket of 6 pounds of Kate, you evil woman. I am actually lusting after the kind of stuff that I used to spin in the Old Days...Lincoln/Finn colored fleece. After buying Kate's fleece, I don't think that I could go back to uncovered again...I am not combing and dizzing and all of that stuff, CAROLINNNNNNNNNE. I am bringing my garlic necklace to your house.
Oh boy, that's a beautiful fleece from a darling little donor. It's enough to get a person thinking about getting some combs. Great score!
Posted by: Melanie on April 27, 2005 08:33 PMWell. You've just put the last nail in the coffin. I now NEED combs. Any advice on what to look for?
Posted by: Cassie on April 27, 2005 08:50 PMcharade looks like she's saying, i'm cold. where's my coat ;-)
Posted by: vanessa on April 28, 2005 03:14 AMYeah Charade looks a little surprised doesn't she! Cassie, I have two sets of combs and the first one I learned on was a pair of 2-row Viking combs. Indigo Hound and Valkyrie both make these and they're available from many online vendors. Once in awhile they pop up used on the Spinsales group on Yahoo or on www.spin-list.com in the housecleaning pages (oddly enough, found in their 'Instruction' section).
Posted by: CarolineF on April 28, 2005 04:44 AMWhat a beautiful fleece ! Gorgeous.That pic makes me want to shove my hands right into that bag !
I love my Indigo Hound combs. ;-]
Ahhhhhh - I didn't put my fingers in my ears fast enough. Send me the e-mail addy please dear :)
Posted by: Angela on April 28, 2005 11:37 AMThat is a lovely fleece!
Posted by: melissa on April 28, 2005 06:35 PMBeautiful fleece! but you can't have any of my time, I am having the same problem!
Posted by: Katie on April 29, 2005 08:51 AMoh mi gawad....
::sigh::
contact info, please? :-)
Posted by: sam on April 29, 2005 09:25 AMIsn't it enough that I'm knitting and crocheting and dyeing and spinning? Isn't it enough? Why must I also comb raw fleece? Why, oh why, do these imperatives run my life?
Posted by: Janine on April 29, 2005 11:23 AM