I was just going to say that you can do the hot to cold once it’s spun up a bit to get the wool yarn to felt a bit. And you don’t even need boiling water when washing - about 140F to 180F will also work for scouring.
I usually dip all my yarn after, like you mentioned, hot to cold. I love the slightly felted softness and it sort of preshrinks the wool I find which I think will be quite useful with the socks if nothing else.
It works well and you can often find them at thrift stores for cheap. I have since started using our plant starting racks, the kind that often come from big box stores with the plastic greenhouse around them. They work fantastic and are multipurpose.
Just a word of caution - if you’re processing a fleece with a lot of lanolin, it’s best not to put the wash water down the drain as the grease will solidify as it cools and can really gum things up.
Thank you so much for that info! I did process a few fleeces at first and then switched to doing them outside where I could just dump it. Luckily, the Icelandic fleece seems to have very low amounts of lanolin, so hopefully, I stopped doing it before it got bad.
Hello from New Zealand.
I really enjoy all your sharings.
And your sheep are so nice
Thank you! it would be nice to live somewhere that the grass grows longer than it does here (New Zealand is such a nice place!)
I was just going to say that you can do the hot to cold once it’s spun up a bit to get the wool yarn to felt a bit. And you don’t even need boiling water when washing - about 140F to 180F will also work for scouring.
I usually dip all my yarn after, like you mentioned, hot to cold. I love the slightly felted softness and it sort of preshrinks the wool I find which I think will be quite useful with the socks if nothing else.
Using cooling racks as drying racks was a great idea! Will definitely be using that one in the future.
It works well and you can often find them at thrift stores for cheap. I have since started using our plant starting racks, the kind that often come from big box stores with the plastic greenhouse around them. They work fantastic and are multipurpose.
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Just a word of caution - if you’re processing a fleece with a lot of lanolin, it’s best not to put the wash water down the drain as the grease will solidify as it cools and can really gum things up.
Thank you so much for that info! I did process a few fleeces at first and then switched to doing them outside where I could just dump it. Luckily, the Icelandic fleece seems to have very low amounts of lanolin, so hopefully, I stopped doing it before it got bad.
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Thank you! this one slipped through but all fixed now!
@@liferaisingsheep perfect!!! Its easy to do!