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Wool?
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FLEECE is a year's worth of wool growth
(sometimes less) which has been carefully cut off
the sheep using hand or electric shears. SkyLines
sheep are shorn once a year, about a month before
lambing begins in early spring.
ROVING
is the term for raw wool that has been washed and
carded (a combing-like process), and that is now
ready for spinning into yarn for knitting,
crocheting, weaving, or other crafts. Every year,
some of SkyLines' fleeces are sent to a processor
to be made into smooth, lustrous, ready-to-spin
roving. To view photos and details, and to purchase
SkyLines roving, go to Prepared
Fibers.
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VARIEGATED fleece is a natural-colored
fleece containing several different colors or
shades, rather than being simply a solid grey. Many
of the SkyLines natural-colored fleeces are
variegated, with one fleece containing a variety of
colors like oatmeal, soft dove grey, silver, medium
grey or dark charcoal grey, and these fleeces often
include some black also.
This
range of colors in one fleece allows a spinner to
create subtle, interesting, one-of-a-kind yarns.
Also, if she sorts the colors into separate
batches, a variegated fleece is a great way for a
spinner to get different colors of wool without
having to purchase numerous individual
fleeces.
Each
variegated SkyLines fleece is unique, which is one
reason so many spinners reserve their favorite
fleeces - by sheep name - months before our annual
spring shearing.
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