Caveat Emptor

Okay, this was the dirtiest, smelliest three pounds of fleece I have ever touched. Oh, yeah, I haven't touched all that many fleeces. hehehe I was so grossed out by the smell, in part because of the raging sinus headache, that I finally resorted to using my pond insert (it is not a water feature any more because of mosquito-borne illness) to get it all washed at once.

The upside to living in Mississippi during the summer, and there has to be an upside, is that 90 degree days mean the water warms pretty quick. I used three lingerie bags, two mesh plastic baskets, salt, citric acid, nearly a whole small bottle of Dawn detergent & a lot of water. The whole nasty mess is soaking in my greenhouse and I plan to leave it there for at least a day. The temperature should not drop too much tonight and will warm back up to ninety again tomorrow, so I am not worried about the lanolin rehardening.

The ultimate irony here is that I really like processing my own fleece. I have used the stuff I have done myself and not really touched the roving I bought. :-) I just hope I don't get stuck with anything this yucky in the future, unless it is free. :-)

VM, tags and second cuts with some poop that I picked out. :-(