Betsy's Fleece

I've been working through some of last season's fleeces as it will be shearing time before we realize it.  I pulled out Betsy's fleece.  She is one of the Sofa Sisters (so named because the twins were grossly obese when we adopted them) and is a Border Leicester X Cotswold with lovely curls.  Here is a nice picture of Betsy with her twin sister, Bitsy, that I took last year.

So here is how I spent my week:

Nice dirty locks.  Lots of mud but almost no VM or second cuts.

Ben helping, or supervising, or watching to see what the donkeys out front are doing.

A 2 oz. sample of those lovely curls.

Soaking away some of the mud in a warm bubble bath.

First batch of dyeing.

A good rinse.

Final rinse.

And I have no picture of the dry fiber yet as we have a sort of sleety frozen rain falling now but you can trust me when I say I am tickled with the results.