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I got wool today! Three bags full, actually. Two beautiful Shetland fleeces, one Moorit (brown) and one Eskit (dark grey).<\/p>\n

\"Close-up
Shetland Moorit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Previous Shetland fleeces<\/h2>\n

I have bought a few Shetland fleeces and I love all of them dearly. I bought the first ones when my wool traveling club<\/a> attended Shetland wool week<\/a> 2015. I got to enter the wonderful treasure room for hand spinners at Jamieson & Smith Shetland woolbrokers<\/a>. A room in the basement filled with dreamy fleeces, handpicked for handspinners. I ended up buying\u00a0one white and one Flecket (patches of black, grey and white). This Christmas I bought another two \u2013 one Shaela (light grey) and one Yuglet (dark grey). More about them in a later post.<\/p>\n

About the Shetland sheep<\/h2>\n

The Shetland sheep is an old sheep breed and they are traditionally rooing their wool. The sheep sheds its wool at a certain time of year when the fibers thin and the new wool starts to grow underneath. This has advantages and disadvantages. An advantage is that the fiber closes at the weak spot, which makes a garment more resistant to cold and wet weather. Another advantage is that the yarn is smoother, since the ends are thinned out instead of cut off.<\/p>\n

A disadvantage is that there is a lot of waste, and sometimes a risk of nepps and noils in the finished yarn. If the fibers don’t break or isn’t pulled off and if the sheep isn’t sheared at the rooing moment, there will be a weak spot where the rooing occurs while the new fiber starts to grow. So, on the fleeces I\u00a0bought at Christmas (about six months after the rooing) the part between cut end and rooing spot was quite long, about 4\u20136 cm. These parts were either wasted or used for carding.<\/p>\n

When to get the best fleece<\/h2>\n

I wanted to get my next fleeces with as little outgrowth as possible. The rooing usually occurs in June as far as I know. I read in a post in the Shetland woolbrokers’ blog<\/a> that Jan is busy with incoming wool from July, so I gathered that the shearing starts about then. So I e-mailed them in July and asked them to get me the best fleeces they could find. I wanted two solid-colour fleeces and the colour really didn’t matter (not black and not white, though), the important thing was the quality. And today I picked them up from the post office. The woman at the post office looked rather suspiciously at my three bursting bags, smelling faintly of sheep. I must have looked rather funny on my bike with one bag in my bike bag, one strapped on to the bike rack and one dangling from the handlebar.<\/p>\n

Just yum<\/h2>\n

The fleeces are really wonderful. Soft like butter, superfine fibers, strong and resilient. They are also amazingly clean. I’m used to Swedish fleeces, where even the cleanest ones have some vegetable matter in them, either from silage, weeds or needles. Once I actually found a whole chestnut in a fleece!<\/p>\n

The Moorit fleece (picture above) is super soft (lamb, I think) with staples about 12 cm. The ends are bleached, which is common on brown fleeces. This means that the finished \u00a0yarn also might be bleached, which I will put under consideration when choosing projects for it.<\/p>\n

\"Close-up
Shetland Eskit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Eskit fleece (lamb) is just as soft and clean. The staples are longer, up to 15 cm. There might be an outgrowth though, you can see the change of quality in the bottom 3 cm of the staple. Hopefully the fibers break at the rooing point when I comb it and the cut end parts stay in the combs.<\/p>\n

I have divided both the fleeces in two parts, one part with the finest, softest fibers from the neck and the sides and one with the still very soft but not softest fibers. This way I can adapt my yarns to different projects.<\/p>\n

My spinning plans<\/h2>\n

I will comb the fleeces and spin with short forward draw. My go-to yarn is 2-ply fingering weight, But I think I will also stash up on some 3-ply sport with these fleeces, I have lots of queueing knitting projects requiring sport weight yarn. The shorter lengths left in the combs will be carded and spun with long draw. I do love to spin these carded rolags into singles on my Navajo spindle and use as weft. More on how I prepare fleeces in an earlier post on combing and carding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Gotta go now. I have fleeces to cuddle.<\/p>\n

Please correct me if I’m wrong about the properties or terminology of Shetland wool.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I got wool today! Three bags full, actually. Two beautiful Shetland fleeces, one Moorit (brown) and one Eskit (dark grey). Previous Shetland fleeces I have bought a few Shetland fleeces and I love all of them dearly. I bought the first ones when my wool traveling club attended Shetland wool week 2015. I got to … <\/p>\n

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Mini combs from Gammeldags Carders from Kromski Supported spindle from Neal Brand Spindle bowl from Malcolm Fielding Navajo spindle from Roosterick\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "For the love of"","block_context":{"text":"For the love of","link":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/category\/for-the-love-of\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sk%C3%A4rmavbild-2017-08-03-kl.-19.55.30.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sk%C3%A4rmavbild-2017-08-03-kl.-19.55.30.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sk%C3%A4rmavbild-2017-08-03-kl.-19.55.30.png?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/Sk%C3%A4rmavbild-2017-08-03-kl.-19.55.30.png?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":106,"url":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/slow-fashion-2-from-sheep-to-shawl\/","url_meta":{"origin":292,"position":4},"title":"Slow fashion 2 \u2013 from sheep to shawl","author":"Josefin Waltin","date":"August 30, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Here it is, finally. My second bigger video project Slow fashion 2 \u2013 from sheep to shawl. Slow fashion and the value of a craft I wanted to make another video on the slow fashion theme. Also, I wanted to show some other aspects of crafting. I have seen people\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "For the love of"","block_context":{"text":"For the love of","link":"https:\/\/waltin.se\/josefinwaltinspinner\/category\/for-the-love-of\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"A woman on a meadow is holding up a plaid shawl in light and dark grey. 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