#general fleece processing tag

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A corriedale yearling 🍟🍟🍟

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Next fleece! Another polwarth, with a multicolor (mostly med brown) fleece

I probably will try to separate out the colors during combing but this fleece is almost 7lbs so we will see how committed I am to that

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50 grams of raw fleece -> 31 grams of washed fleece -> 14 grams of combed top

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This is Henrietta, she’s a corriedale from Strawberry Ridge Farms (@/sheepnotstrawberries on instagram, online @ https://strawberryridgefarm.com)

She another big one, just under 7lbs, ~4in staple, and i’m very curious to see how much heathering is in the final prep + yarn, bc she’s a variegated grey fleece with those really pretty light browns at the tips.

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More sorting, by color this time (this is the polwarth I scoured two(?) weeks ago)

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I managed to get back to flicking/picking the fleece. I’m thinking 1.5, maybe 2 lbs to go into the flicked bin, most of it for blending + carding to spin into a nice sturdy cardigan, plus a bunch of extra for sampling and testing.