Brief pause in the proceedings

I had hoped to be able to post pictures of dry carded fleece made into Rolags by now, however I have needed to put the fleece through several more soaks than planned. This seems odd to me as the fleece was amazingly clean as you could see from the pictures in my previous blog post. All I can say is that Fluffy is good at hiding their dirt... 

The weather is currently amazing here, so it should not take long to dry and I can wash another batch. 

I also undertook a small test and spun a small piece of yarn to see what it spun up like. Very interesting...

The long staple makes it easy to spin, and the yarn has quite a halo on it - fluffiness coming off the yarn. This will make it quite a warm yarn, which is good, knowing the use that is intended for it. I decided to knit this small sample up too, to show what it would like as a finished item. 

Sample knit up.