We had a lovely afternoon at Blaze Farm's, 'Wool Experience' at Wildboarclough. There were demonstrations of spinning and sheep shearing and this is one of the fleece from the shearing demonstration. One of the spinning ladies helped pick out the fleece for me which was great as I really wouldn't know a good fleece from a bad.
When I got home I spread the fleece out on cardboard on top of the bins. I pulled out the worst of the soiling around the edges of the fleece but I was pleasantly surprised to find it wasn't too bad at all. I have some soaking in cold water so that I can start washing tomorrow. I was encouraged to try spinning in the grease but I really feel more comfortable washing the fleece -but who knows - not long ago I was saying I wouldn't buy a fleece........
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