#finewool
When your cutting table isn’t quite long enough to block an 80” shawl wrap. Totes extension! One must improvise! 🧶😆🧶
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#merino🐑🐑🐑
#handspunyarn
#handknit
#finewool🐑🐑🐑
January 14, 2026 at 7:49 PM
While sheep were domesticated over 3,000 years ago, what we now call finewool breeds (merino was the first) only developed about 500 years ago.

Spain strictly controlled their merino flocks until the ~1700s because of how fine the fibre was compared to other breeds at the time.
January 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Skirting fleeces: not my favorite task, but the good news is that I'm 1/3 done.

#wool 🧶🐑🐑🐑
April 20, 2026 at 5:40 PM
What a deer little creature. What are Gulf Coast sheep like? I suspect dual purpose meat/wool? Not a finewool but still serviceable enough for sturdy stuffs, I guess?
November 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Creative design, colour palette and vision .. but the knitting and structure of this is really basic.

Durability would be *highly* dependent on the fibre preparation and I imagine have a lot to do with the wool staple length. Finewool roving will indeed pill badly if knit with minimal-to-zero twist
January 7, 2026 at 8:35 PM
I sold my finewool crosses (Rambouillet/Suffolk) at about that weight at about that price. Allowing for living in a much more expensive area now, I was expecting the ~$450 range including kill but not cut/wrap.

I don't eat much lamb these days.
November 26, 2024 at 7:53 PM