Drum Carder

At the Weeting Quilters Meeting Diane who is also a

spinner and weaver brought in a car load of fleece,

some washed and some ready to prepare and

has let me borrow her spare drum carder.

This will make such a difference from hand carding.

I will have to get Stewart carding as he did such a good

job at carding at the Alpaca Farm.

See previuos post HERE

Carding Fleece

Look what arrived this morning, the carders I sent for,

from Scotland. They have only taken two days to get here!

I am so pleased they work really well.

It felt really good making rough fleece into smooth

rollages ready for spinning or in my case felting.

I would recommend The Wool Bothy who sent them to me.

www.woolbothy.com

Fleece Preparing

Over the weekend Stewart and I did the first washing of the fleece

from Little Abbey Farm.

These tubs contain one and a half fleece,

enough for me to process on the Monday.

After washing out the worst and leaving them to soak

over Sunday night, I rinsed

and re- washed the wool again.

This was then spread out on a large plastic sheet to dry.

It normally takes one to two days to dry naturally

depending on the weather and the density of the wool.

Our garden smelt a bit like a farmyard!

We emptied the cleaning water all on the

flower beds because it is like liquid manure!

We should have wonderful wool and plants shortly!

I am now waiting for some new carders that I have ordered as

my old ones looked positive toothless!

Little Abbey Farm Flock

On Thursday evening Stewart and I went over to

Little Abbey Farm to pick up some fleeces and a

large water container to help our irrigation here at Quilters Cottage.

Above are some of the flock waiting to be shorn.

I took a picture of the fleeces now and I will show you

what I do with after I wash and card it.

It was lovely to walk around the farm with Ben.

We 'talked' to a Hampshire Pig who

sadly because she is very naughty and gets out of the

pig field and causes mayhem so is off for sausages,ooooh!

I do like a cooked breakfast now and then!

Thank you Ben and Diane for the fleeces and water container.

Visit Little Abbey Farms website at

www.littleabbeyfarm.co.uk

Scrumble Detail

These are added flowers and scrumble pots which are then added with extra crochet to form a textured edge.

Scrumbles!

I took a crochet hook and some different wools and threads and enjoyed, Scrumbling and adding on crochet flowers. Really free and enjoyable. I was ispired by Anneliese from Stichin Fingers network site.