Finally yesterday I finished combing the chocolate Bond, and as I haven't really enjoyed the combing of this one, and any excuse was enough to put it to one side. The amount of waste from this has come out at a staggering 62% from my 550 grams share I have 207 grams of spinnable fibre! But only 40 grams is the really fine..............
One excuse was some super black Corriedale given to me by littlemarchhare - it was described as having some hay! Well perhaps a Corriedale X Hay would have been a closer description, as clearly the sheep had rolled in not only hay but brambles as well, but the fleece was well worth the effort.
I wasn't sure whether to separate the very soft lighter gray, but in the end I decided that it would look good spun as it is, and I am getting a lovely flecked yarn - singles here
and plying on Miss Bliss
Obviously all this washed fleece has to be combed or carded, and I try (very hard) to comb every afternoon, while watching Countdown. Yes I know day time TV, but you do have to use your brain, plus at the end of the program I also have some spinning fibre - so good use of time I would suggest and a decreasing amount of fleece and a corresponding increasing store of fibre nests.............
I am hoping that having this sort of structure to my life will help during the dark winter months - for as Mr S so kindly pointed out the clocks go back this Sunday! Which means dark days ahead.....
