I bought a Corriedale Fleece on Wednesday from
Whitefishbay Farm in Door County Wisconsin and on Friday my wonderful husband went to pick it up. The fleece is from a sheep name Vespa and there is six pounds of fluff. I was so excited to do something with it I watched a
video on how to wash a fleece in your kitchen sink and decided to give it a try. I ended up washing it twice with Dawn dish soap and I did a hot rinse twice. Finally, I laid it on a screen outside to dry. There is still a bit of lanolin on it but it didn't get felted so, I think I did pretty darn good. Now I just have to wait for a nice sunny day to wash the rest outside.
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| My bag of fleece. |
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| It is beautiful! |
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| Washing a little bit of the wool in my kitchen sink. |
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| Letting the freshly washed wool dry. |
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| Unwashed wool on the left and just washed wool on the right. |
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