I love the way you wash your fleece. I don't have outside space so wash small amounts at a time. Beautiful scenery, a bit like Cornwall coast. I have walked part of the Cornwall Coastal Walk. Not for the feint hearted!! I couldn't do it now, 10 yards is a struggle!
You are so welcome! I'm sorry to hear you are having problems with your mobility. I understand how difficult that can make life . Yes our coast line looks very similar to Cornwall.
What a beautiful fleece! I'm always interested in how people do things so differently. I tend to separate mine out into smallish laundry bags, then soak it outside overnight and then put it in a hot bath (literally in our bath) with fairly liquid and rinse out as many baths as necessary (except I might get bored and usually don't do the final rinse that I should do!) . I might now change my process slightly and change the water in the pre-wash cold soak if I have the time.
Thank you for sharing your process. For me my process depends a little on what the fleece is like. Having said that this is the first raw fleece I've processed since I downsized nearly 7 years ago. I had forgotten how many I enjoy it.
Hi Becca, I hope you and Andrew are both OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️ Thankyou so, so much for sharing this video podcast. I love how your Gotland Fleece looks after washing. I ventured earlier this month to get a small amount of Fleece ( bout 400 gms. ). It was already skirted so just needs a good wash. Which I plan on doing on the Challenge Days of TDF. Been re- organising my Craft Room, so that I have more space. Now the weather's turned cold and wet, I'm hoping that I've not left the Fleece too late. Thankyou for sharing your glorious sunset. 🌅 I think your Calendar will have some wonderful photos in it.🌁🌅 I hope we get to see a finished version of it after everyone has received theirs. I hope you have a Wonderful Weekend ✨️🌟🔆🌞 Happy Fleece Prepping and Spinning Fibre Friend 🐑🐑🎡🐑🥰 Take care and stay safe Lots of love, Blessings and Big Hugs to you both and Cuddles for Millie..Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕🫂🫂
Hi Jen . I hope you have lots of fun with fleece . I think is such a fun thing to do . Good luck with TDF , I am never organised enough to take part. I do hope to share more of the photos from the Calendar soon.
That fleece is really pretty. I like your Big Bertha pot. I think an electric pot would be really nice to hold a set temperature. I do mine outside on a propane burner, and we are in a really windy area. It plays havoc with keeping a steady temp. I do have a spin dryer, though, and I really love it. My wool dries so quickly after using that.
Thanks for the tip about the spin dryer, I have to admit I have washed Jacob fleece in my washing machine on the wool cycle and then spin drying . I wouldn't dream of doing it to anything other than Free to me Jacob fleece .
Thank you Becca. It was fascinating watching the fleece prep. Loved the breath of fresh air at the end of the video. What a beautiful pair of the world you live in.
Alpaca how wonderful. I don't like to handle the fleece too much when it's dry because of the dust and the potential for mould spores from hay and straw. I am a bit of a worrier !
I am sending this to Maria on Salt spring Island British Columbia who is today (26 June) and 15 degrees centigrade) also washing some fleece from her little flock. I know she will love this- and you!… thank you
Beautiful shots at the end Becca, all bathed in that golden glow superb. The fleece looks gorgeous, I've never tried gotland might have to now though. Hope you are all well, best wishes Jenny
You showed us the locks and said you might keep them as locks! I’m intrigued……! I’m newish to spinning and notice that people buy locks, but I don’t understand what they do with them. Could you please do a video showing how you use yours? Thanks so much.
Isn't that lovely! I really love your Big Bertha pot too. That's great! I am cold soaking a half of a Finn fleece as we speak. This second cold soak isn't getting much dirt out so that good! I'll get a hot bath with wool wash next. I'll have to heat water in my canner on the stove it will go in the bin outside and hopefully only 1 wash will do it. I have a wendslydale clean fleece and will be thinking about how to process it for spinning soon. Too long for the drum carder what about flicking do you think?
Thank you I am so glad you enjoyed the video, Big Bertha has had a long career and I'm so happy I didn't sell her when we downsized. How lovely to have a Wendslydale. Flicking is properly your best bet especially if you want to maintain the crip.
Great video Becca. Interesting idea to ‘cook’ the fleece in the Berco. Do you find that it gets coated with lanolin, even if you empty it whilst still warm?
Thank you. If there had been a lot of lanolin left in the fleece I would have added detergent to the boiler which would have held it in suspension. I also find that having a drain at the bottom of the boiler means I can drain it when the water is still hot without any danger of felting.
Loved your video! I’m travelling around Tasmania Australia at the moment and have just bought 3 lovely fleeces to process when I get back home ready to spin next year :-) I was wondering when you get to the scouring stage of the process do you put the fleece in cold water and then heat to the 80° in your boiler or do you put the fleece in warm water first ? Thanks Jan
How wonderful to be on a road trip. I always start fleece in cold water or warm water and bring it up to temperature so I don't felt it . Then let it cool until it's hand hit before removing it .
if i want to get lanolin from my fleece do i wash it first like this and the boile it do you think or will most of the fat disapere with the water? i know you might not be able to give a full awnser but thought i might ask anyway. exuse any speling and gramer as i have dyslexia :)
@@paulaglad2855 I am fluent in Dyslexia as I am also Dyslexic so don't worry about your spelling. I have never extracted the lanolin for us . However there is an episode of the Edwardian Farm on UA-cam where Ruth Goodman extracts lanolin from raw fleece. I hope this helps . 🐏🤗
I love the way you wash your fleece. I don't have outside space so wash small amounts at a time. Beautiful scenery, a bit like Cornwall coast. I have walked part of the Cornwall Coastal Walk. Not for the feint hearted!! I couldn't do it now, 10 yards is a struggle!
You are so welcome! I'm sorry to hear you are having problems with your mobility. I understand how difficult that can make life . Yes our coast line looks very similar to Cornwall.
Love that fleece. Cannot wait to see it spun up.😊😊😊
thank you I'm super happy with it .
What a beautiful fleece! I'm always interested in how people do things so differently. I tend to separate mine out into smallish laundry bags, then soak it outside overnight and then put it in a hot bath (literally in our bath) with fairly liquid and rinse out as many baths as necessary (except I might get bored and usually don't do the final rinse that I should do!) . I might now change my process slightly and change the water in the pre-wash cold soak if I have the time.
Thank you for sharing your process. For me my process depends a little on what the fleece is like. Having said that this is the first raw fleece I've processed since I downsized nearly 7 years ago. I had forgotten how many I enjoy it.
Your fleece is lovely. It is the middle of winter here in Australia and I want to be washing fleece. Sigh. Enjoy.
Stay warm and dry and dream of summer sunshine .
Thank you for showing the cleaning and scouring process. That looks like a lovely fleece. I look forward to seeing the next stage of the process.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Becca, I hope you and Andrew are both OK xx ❣️❣️❣️❣️
Thankyou so, so much for sharing this video podcast.
I love how your Gotland Fleece looks after washing.
I ventured earlier this month to get a small amount of Fleece
( bout 400 gms. ). It was already skirted so just needs a good wash.
Which I plan on doing on the Challenge Days of TDF.
Been re- organising my Craft Room, so that I have more space.
Now the weather's turned cold and wet, I'm hoping that I've not left the Fleece too late.
Thankyou for sharing your glorious sunset. 🌅
I think your Calendar will have some wonderful photos in it.🌁🌅
I hope we get to see a finished version of it after everyone has received theirs.
I hope you have a Wonderful Weekend ✨️🌟🔆🌞
Happy Fleece Prepping and Spinning Fibre Friend 🐑🐑🎡🐑🥰
Take care and stay safe
Lots of love, Blessings and Big Hugs to you both and Cuddles for Millie..Jen xxxx ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🫂🐕🫂🫂
Hi Jen . I hope you have lots of fun with fleece . I think is such a fun thing to do . Good luck with TDF , I am never organised enough to take part. I do hope to share more of the photos from the Calendar soon.
That fleece is really pretty. I like your Big Bertha pot. I think an electric pot would be really nice to hold a set temperature. I do mine outside on a propane burner, and we are in a really windy area. It plays havoc with keeping a steady temp. I do have a spin dryer, though, and I really love it. My wool dries so quickly after using that.
Thanks for the tip about the spin dryer, I have to admit I have washed Jacob fleece in my washing machine on the wool cycle and then spin drying . I wouldn't dream of doing it to anything other than Free to me Jacob fleece .
Thank you Becca. It was fascinating watching the fleece prep. Loved the breath of fresh air at the end of the video. What a beautiful pair of the world you live in.
Glad you enjoyed it!
That fleece looks great. I pick VM first. I'm currently doing an Alpaca blanket.
Alpaca how wonderful. I don't like to handle the fleece too much when it's dry because of the dust and the potential for mould spores from hay and straw. I am a bit of a worrier !
I am sending this to Maria on Salt spring Island British Columbia who is today (26 June) and 15 degrees centigrade) also washing some fleece from her little flock. I know she will love this- and you!… thank you
Thank you for sharing this with Maria! I'm glad you think she will enjoy it.
Beautiful shots at the end Becca, all bathed in that golden glow superb. The fleece looks gorgeous, I've never tried gotland might have to now though. Hope you are all well, best wishes Jenny
Thank you we are all very well .
Lovely fleece! Nice video, thank you.
Thank you! 😊
You showed us the locks and said you might keep them as locks! I’m intrigued……!
I’m newish to spinning and notice that people buy locks, but I don’t understand what they do with them. Could you please do a video showing how you use yours?
Thanks so much.
Locks are used in art yarn . I will add that to the video to do list.
@@bybeccalewis oooooh thanks! Looking forward to that!
Isn't that lovely! I really love your Big Bertha pot too. That's great! I am cold soaking a half of a Finn fleece as we speak. This second cold soak isn't getting much dirt out so that good! I'll get a hot bath with wool wash next. I'll have to heat water in my canner on the stove it will go in the bin outside and hopefully only 1 wash will do it. I have a wendslydale clean fleece and will be thinking about how to process it for spinning soon. Too long for the drum carder what about flicking do you think?
Thank you I am so glad you enjoyed the video, Big Bertha has had a long career and I'm so happy I didn't sell her when we downsized. How lovely to have a Wendslydale. Flicking is properly your best bet especially if you want to maintain the crip.
Great video Becca. Interesting idea to ‘cook’ the fleece in the Berco. Do you find that it gets coated with lanolin, even if you empty it whilst still warm?
Thank you. If there had been a lot of lanolin left in the fleece I would have added detergent to the boiler which would have held it in suspension. I also find that having a drain at the bottom of the boiler means I can drain it when the water is still hot without any danger of felting.
Loved your video! I’m travelling around Tasmania Australia at the moment and have just bought 3 lovely fleeces to process when I get back home ready to spin next year :-) I was wondering when you get to the scouring stage of the process do you put the fleece in cold water and then heat to the 80° in your boiler or do you put the fleece in warm water first ? Thanks Jan
How wonderful to be on a road trip. I always start fleece in cold water or warm water and bring it up to temperature so I don't felt it . Then let it cool until it's hand hit before removing it .
if i want to get lanolin from my fleece do i wash it first like this and the boile it do you think or will most of the fat disapere with the water? i know you might not be able to give a full awnser but thought i might ask anyway. exuse any speling and gramer as i have dyslexia :)
@@paulaglad2855 I am fluent in Dyslexia as I am also Dyslexic so don't worry about your spelling. I have never extracted the lanolin for us . However there is an episode of the Edwardian Farm on UA-cam where Ruth Goodman extracts lanolin from raw fleece. I hope this helps . 🐏🤗