As I play with my new carder, I'm also juggling lingerie bags of greasy fleece in my washing machine. I can't believe how difficult the alpaca fleeces were to wash- the fine fibers held onto EVERYTHING, so after the washings, I had to re-pick through both fleeces, shaking out all the little veggie matter bits. Tater tot's fleece is now ready to be drum-carded, and I've already made a 3.3 oz. excessively fluffy batt from it, but I can't really show it off until it stops raining. Maybe tomorrow.
Saturday, May 09, 2009
BATTlings + fleece pickin's
As I've been teaching myself how to use my new Supercard aka "The Beast," I've been whipping up gobs of loaded practice batts. These batts are then torn down into smaller sizes, and jumbled up into sets of BATTlings, which I've got an excess of at the moment. Eventually, I'll add more of my old style of batts, carded with my lil Strauch, and I'll probably start carding smooth loaded batts too with The Beast, but until I'm really good at packing fiber on the Supercard- these little BATTlings are my new favorite fibery dessert.
As I play with my new carder, I'm also juggling lingerie bags of greasy fleece in my washing machine. I can't believe how difficult the alpaca fleeces were to wash- the fine fibers held onto EVERYTHING, so after the washings, I had to re-pick through both fleeces, shaking out all the little veggie matter bits. Tater tot's fleece is now ready to be drum-carded, and I've already made a 3.3 oz. excessively fluffy batt from it, but I can't really show it off until it stops raining. Maybe tomorrow.
As I play with my new carder, I'm also juggling lingerie bags of greasy fleece in my washing machine. I can't believe how difficult the alpaca fleeces were to wash- the fine fibers held onto EVERYTHING, so after the washings, I had to re-pick through both fleeces, shaking out all the little veggie matter bits. Tater tot's fleece is now ready to be drum-carded, and I've already made a 3.3 oz. excessively fluffy batt from it, but I can't really show it off until it stops raining. Maybe tomorrow.
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2 woolly muses:
I love the battlings - I think you should keep doing them as well as the other things. My new wheel doesn't hold as much as my other wheel, so I'm finding myself searching for smaller batts or these mix and match type things. Keep doing them! :)
This is what I'm not looking forward to with my alpaca to make the batts. Hope mine aren't as difficult to wash. Each fleece is so different.
Thanks for sharing your Batt Adventures with us!
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