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Last autumn, when I made a video at \u00d6verj\u00e4rva g\u00e5rd<\/a>, I happened to buy another fleece. I didn’t mean to, but I saw it in the wool shop and I immediately realized that it needed me. It was half a fleece from the Swedish finewool sheep Engla.<\/p>\n

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Engla, a newly shorn fleece<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

When I sorted the fleece, I decided to divide it into different piles according to the quality of the wool. I ended up with three piles \u2013 the very short and fine (neck) staples, the medium length staples and the longer staples.<\/p>\n

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The shortest staples were carded<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The fleece was a joy to work with \u2013 it was clean, easy to sort, wonderful to comb and card and dreamy to spin. I do love Swedish finewool. I can honestly say it has been one of my very favourite fleeces.<\/p>\n

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Medium staples with lots of crimp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I bought 800 g of fleece and ended up with a total of about 440 g of yarn.<\/p>\n

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The longest staples were combed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

So, I carded the fine neck staples and spun them with long draw on a supported spindle and made a 3-ply yarn out of the singles and I was very happy with the result. A light, airy and even yarn with lots of bounce. I also made a video<\/a> about the plying.<\/p>\n

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3-ply yarn carded and spun with long draw on a supported spindle. 57 g, 203 m, 3581 m\/kg<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I carded the medium staples as well and spun them with long draw on a Navajo spindle. One of the yarns I made was a prize winner \u2013 The sheep, the chicken, the pig and the lion<\/a>. I also spun several skeins of singles on a Navajo spindle.<\/p>\n

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Thick singles spun with long draw on a Navajo spindle, and will probably be used as weft yarn. 434 m, 212 g with an average of 2000 m\/kg.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I combed the longest staples and spun them with short draw on a supported spindle. I experimented with chain-plying “on the fly” and made two videos about it, a detailed video about how to ply-on-the-fly on a supported spindle<\/a> and another one where I show how I start from an empty spindle<\/a> with the ply-on-the-fly method.<\/p>\n

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Medium length staples combed and plied on the fly on a supported spindle.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I feel very fortunate as a hand spinner to be able to sort my fleeces to make different kinds of yarns, whether it is according to colour, structure or length. It can result in really unique yarns. And I learn so much from it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last autumn, when I made a video at \u00d6verj\u00e4rva g\u00e5rd, I happened to buy another fleece. I didn’t mean to, but I saw it in the wool shop and I immediately realized that it needed me. It was half a fleece from the Swedish finewool sheep Engla. When I sorted the fleece, I decided to … <\/p>\n

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