Lots of fleece things recently; trying not to move with old dye or raw fleeces so I've been using stuff up. Also I always get into a fleece fever in the spring
From top to bottom, left to right:
Shetland scrap (as in, my last little bit of that beautiful fleece) after avocado dye with copper mordant, drying. Happy to add some light pink to my naturally dyed shetland collection. I've got some updates for that too but I'll wait until I've spun all of the different colors probably.
Hampshire fleece in the avocado exhaust. I'm using some old bottled avocado dye from last year plus the bits of avocados I had from recently. It's still a very dark dyebath so I oughta be able to get at least another round of full dye before actually getting exhaust. I forgot how crazy potent the avocado dye was (cooked it down from about 1 gallon to a pint which is about 80% less volume if my completely wild guess is correct). Oops.
White: shetland x clun forest, drying. The green is more hampshire that I mordanted quite some time ago, forgot about, and recently found. I believe its copper mordant because it was very green already, but after dyeing with yellow hollyhock and yellow marigold it is even greener. I know it looks vaguely brown here, but it's a sort of khaki green
And then more shetland x clun forest. This is the first batch; I moved it to the bathroom drawer that's directly over a vent and thus very good for drying things. It's still wet though. The hampshire is dry already and I dyed it at the same time.... I'm chalking it up to more weirdness from this crossbreed sheep. I want it to dry already so I can sample some and see if it spins up weird too. I hope it's good as a yarn. The lack of stickiness in the fibers is really odd for what the parents were... kinda reminds me of karakul ? Idk, I'm sure it will be a little easier when it's dry.