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If you read my Sheepless in Suburbia blog - this photo is old news. However it is also doing double duty for my Masterspinner Level 1 project, which required an end use from the handspun nature dye project.
What impressed me most, is that the purse was machine washed THREE times in HOT water in order to get it to felt adequately - with very little colour loss.
I am currently working on my 10 sheep breeds project. I am to document my experience with each breed sample as follows:
We are to include a staple, a 6 yard spun sample, and a 2" x2" sample (knit, crochet, woven etc)
We will provide information about the breed, the general fleece characteristics, etc.
I was eager to start, so I washed my sample, prepped it, and spun it up. All the while I sniffed, and wrote my "critique" of my fleece sample.
Then I did my research.
Turns out all the so called faults of my fleece are actually standard characteristics of the fleece. If I had read first and acted second, I may have appreciated the unique qualities that this fleece had to offer.
Instead of scarf, I would have thought sweater. Instead of mistaking rough to the hand, I would have marveled at the resilient sponge-y spring of the fibres.
In restrospect, in my years of spinning I have pretty much stuck with the tried and true. Fleece I thought I knew.
Lesson one - do the research!
