Washing Raw Fleece Again

Since I learned to spin, it seems like I spend a part of every weekend washing raw fleece. This is some Shetland fleece I purchased by the pound on eBay. I already washed a test batch, but I decided to lay it out and pick out some of the vegetable matter (VM) in preparation for the next step.





These are the second cuts, dust bunnies and VM that I picked out of this batch.

All in all, it was a real bargain. It was actually cleaner than the Cheviot fleece and smelled better than the Romanov! :-) It has a nice long staple, most of what I have is about 5" and I like the dark color. I did use a flicker to open the tips before washing, because it is too dark to use color to determine cleanliness.