National Geographic Fleece Collection (2022)
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It's not a want, it's A need honey.
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Someone at my job bought 200 fleece tops and I chewed my hand off because I hate touching fleece.
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gideon and the fleece
miniature in a copy of the "weltchronik" ("chronicle of the world") by rudolf von ems, zurich, c. 1340-50
source: Zurich, Zentralbibliothek, Ms. Rh. 15, fol. 133r
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25-11-2023, part one:
I got my first whole fleece! It's from a Walliser Schwarznase (Walliser Blacknose). I already got rid of all the dirty and matted parts (pictured is the whole fleece before cleaning), and I took the very dirty edges off to do an experiment on cleaning.
The length of the fibers is +- 10 cm and the locks are very soft. There is quite a bit of vegetable matter, but I think that's to be expected. Look at those curls though! So pretty! I'm thinking about keeping some locks to use as texture while spinning.
Currently I'm scouring some of the dirty sides in warm water and dish soap, to see if they can be used for a test spin. A lot of brown water has been discarded already, so it looks to be cleaning up nicely. I hope it won't mat :)
The rest of the fleece has been rolled up in an old blanket and stored for now, untill the test spin has been done.
Now I have to see if I can borrow a carder from someone (or hand cards), so I can try to spin some up! (Once it is clean and dry, that is). Goal will probably be to spin a sweather out of this.
Updates wil follow in the next days/weeks! I'm very excited :D
(Part two)
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So I recently went to two fiber festivals and now have six fleeces in my house that are varying degrees of stinky and need to be processed. I have a project deadline coming up, so of course my brain decides now is a ~great time~ to procrastinate and wash a stinky fleece!
Here is a Jacob fleece that I picked up for the sole purpose of seeing if I could spin each color in the coat separately, then weave it back together into something with both colors. I took lots of video of the washing process but Tumblr mobile is a nightmare so I'm going to have the stick with stills.
The first step was separating the black and white sections from each other. I couldn't remember if the fleece had been skirted (had all the really horrible bits and poop removed) because I bought it in a novelty-induced dopamine haze, but it turns out it was! So that was lucky. I ended up having a lot of locks that were both black and white, so I made a third pile of mixed locks that I didn't feel like separating further.
Next was the washing/scouring, which I did in a plastic tub in my backyard. The fleece wasn't incredibly dirty but still immediately released a bunch of brown muck in the water when I submerged it.
Wet fleece!!
I did two 20-minute soaks with the hottest tap water I could get and Power Scour (I actually have more of that than Dawn dish soap in my house rn), then a 20 minute rinse soak in hot water. I spun it out and laid it out to dry on this nifty herb drying rack thing.
It was dry enough to work with today and I couldn't resist combing out some of each color. I think it looks pretty neat!
I think I'm going to comb the rest of the fleece because I really like spinning from combed top, and I'll probably make it worsted for easier weaving. I'm waiting on the final weights of each color before deciding what draft to do.
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New Polar Fleece Mask with lacing!
They are great match to our Polar Straitjacket Pajamas!
Now available in our shop!
👉 etsy.com/shop/StraitJacketShop
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commission for f-frost on FA of their gorgeous character Maribelle out in the son having fun on the beach <3 designing a 'fleece bikini set' was super fun <3
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Axolotl plush yip yip yi
Next time I make one I have a few modifications I wanna make to the pattern 😋👍👍
Pattern by sewdesune
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