Below is my "set up", with all the things required (or so I hoped), to wash my fleece. I used Dawn dish detergent, which I had read on a few of my Yahoo spinning groups, was a good detergent to use for washing fleece. I also had found 2 wire baskets at our local Dollar Store, that I thought would make excellent holders for the fleece, while being dipped in the wash/rinse water. :) You also can see my salad spinner, that I would use to "spin dry" the finished fleece, prior to rolling it in a towel, and then setting it out to air dry. And of course, the timer, to set for a 15 minute soak for the wash part of the process. :)
The raw fleece........
The raw fleece in it's "soaking/wash cycle"......
The washed fleece in the "rinse cycle"......
The washed/rinsed fleece in the salad spinner for it's "spin cycle".
The "spun dry" fleece......
The fleece prior to it being rolled up in a towel to take more moisture from it before it is set out to air dry.
The finished fleece air drying.
More photos to come when I get ready to use it for spinning.......
3 comments:
Does Don know what's going on back at home while he's away at work :) You are an amazing man, Michael!
Dude! You are rockin' on this spinning stiff. I don't think I'll get to the raw fleece stage. Too smelly and yucky for me! I'll stick to roving, but the process looks interesting!
Truthfully, that looks really gross.
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