Hand carded rolags

Relearning old skills.   Years since I have used my hand carders and I had forgotten how satisfying it is.  I spent last night carding some Jacob fleece.    It is slower than using my drum carder but much more relaxing.  I now look forward to spinning it.   Spinning with these is called 'woolen spinning' and it will be interesting to see the finished yarn.    I want to have it finished for the workshop to use as an example

Cerise Red

Lovely weather and so nice to get wool dried in the garden.  I dyed these locks last night and they were dry by lunch time today!!
They are now listed on Etsy
 https://www.etsy.com/listing/124108945/cerise-hand-dyed-wensleydale-locks


A busy day with sheep as they were all vaccinated against horrible things that sheep get.  Given to the ewes before they lamb passes resistance their lambs when they are born

Kingfisher Flash

I have made four of these skeins all at least 100 gms and about 53 yards.  The first time I have tried to get all the skeins around the same size and it seems to have worked well.  They are a turquoise blue with small amounts of rusts,  yellows,   black and a little natural white.   Variable it thickness but about 7 w.p.i .  It appears to be totally dye fast and I have listed it on Etsy   ahttps://www.etsy.com/listing/123799934/kingfisher-flash-hand-dyed-hand-spun

Woodland Colours Wensleydale Locks

More of my Wensleydale locks that I have hand dyed.  I have used three different dyes to get these colours using both Landscape Dyes and GayWool dyes.   The locks are mostly about 10 inches long and have a lovely sheen.  I have 150 gms in total and am selling them in 50gm lots.  They would be great for tail spinning or to add to many felting projects.  I have them listed on Etsy https://www.etsy.com/listing/122615155/woodland-colours-wensleydale-locks-50gms