Preparing Fleece

I obtained this bag of sheep fleece about 30 micron, it wasnt that nice but decided to use it.
Firstly I soaked the whole lot in several buckets of warm soapy (detergent) water.


I then sorted it in about 150 gms lots and dyed each in different colours.
I was amazed at how the colour took.



The next process was to card it. So out with the drum carder and I grabbed a handful of coloured fleece, fluffed it out and layed it on the carder tray, turned the handled and the fleece lay on the drum. After several layers on the drum I lifted it off and layed it down on the table. I continued to card all the fleece and was amazed at the result.