Having The Wool Pulled Over My Eyes

I am up to my eyeballs in wool, 2 bags of brown Romney wool; 2 bags of white Romney wool; and might I add, some of the most gloriously soft wool I have had in a long while. It has a long fiber of about 4 inches long, washes up beautifully, dyes equally as well and cards up exquisitely. (sp?) My project for my shawl (actually more of a wrap) is in it's first stages, I have figured up that the cost for the materials is about $50.00, give or take a dollar or 2. The time I have invested thus far though is about 12 hours + and I don't even have it all dyed or carded. I have the "sunshine" orange dyed wool dried and 3/4 carded. I have a wonderful little Louett drum carder I got, oh well, let's just say, a looooooooooooong time ago. It takes a bit of work but it is oh so worth it. Using the small hand cards are ok, but for as much as I going to need for this project, well the drum carder is wonderful.

I also have some wool dyed with a "scarlet" color drying now. It is going to take some time, but I will work with it like I did the last batch. The "sunshine" orange was slow to dry, but when it was just damp, I took handfuls at a time and with a hairdryer propped on my leg, gently blow dried the wool on the lowest setting. It did not felt or mess it up, in fact as it all dried, I fluffed it and picked it, so it would be ready for carding. It looked so beautiful in the wicker basket. My children kept going over and putting their faces on it. LOL

I have pictures to share. I will post them and then share how my endeavours are going with my yarn shop. I don't think I will make it happen before Christmas, but hey! it's all in God's perfect timing!

Let me post these pics and I will write more soon.

katcha