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| A Big Bag of Dirty Fleece |
I thought I would tell you about how I acquired all of this stuff...at least 10 pounds of fleece and fibre. I subscribe to Freecycle and get notices in my e-mail box when someone has something to give away for free. One day I saw a post from a young lady who was nearly begging people to come and take away this fleece. Well...I hadn't done any spinning for years...and I thought to myself; "I just hate to think of all that fleece going to the dump." So I grabbed some big green garbage bags, got my German Shepherd dog Sheppy, hopped in my van, and drove 60 miles down to get some free sheep fleece.
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| This needs to be skirted and washed |
I went online and read all about how to clean greasy fleece. I discovered it was no small job as the fleece needed to be skirted first....picked over and the vegetable matter and really dirty stuff taken off. Professionals have a skirting table where most of the junk just falls through the holes. I didn't have one of those so......
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| My Make-do Skirting Set-up. |
I set up outside beside the creek in the shade on a beautiful sunny day and began to skirt the fleece.
