Chris O Prepares Corriedale Wool

Our long time MA member Chris O shares her recent adventure of wool prep with us.

Chris O bought several bags of Corriedale wool from a local farmer.

The same wool view from the skin side.

Chris weighs one pound of the Corriedale wool.

Wash and dry the wool.

Put the wool in the bench picker to separate the wool.

A pile of nice fluffy wool.

The dirty stuff are left in the picker. The blower for rabbits is as good for cleaning the bench picker.

The clean wool is dyed and being dried.

Some beautiful dyed corriedale locks.

The dyed clean wool is fed through the motorized Patrick Green carder.

Here are two small batts of the dyed and carded Corriedale wool.

The batts nice and smooth. The three plied yarn made from this batt is also nice and smooth.

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