My Order from the Woolery Arrived Yesterday

I am soooooo excited!  I didn't even pause to take a picture of the box before I opened it, like I usually do.  I told you in a previous post that I had ordered carders and combs from The Woolery, online.  They arrived yesterday, but i didn't get a chance to blog about it till today.

 

I just threw the paper aside and dug out the combs and carders.  Here is the mess I made on the dining room table.

 

Look at this warning.  How much you want to bet I will stab myself with these at least a few times.  I am clutsy that way.  I am glad for the warning, though.  I will definitely try to be careful.

 

The carders are larger than I was picturing.  They will do very nicely.  I just can't wait for my sewing projects to be done so I can get to work on the fiber.  Molly might get to start on blending her angora with the woolpaca roving before I even get to try these out. 

 

These are 112 tines per square inch with very fine bent wires.  They should work very well for our fine wool, alpaca and angora fibers.  Handles are very smooth and comfortable, as well.

 

Here is a close up.  Lovely.

 

These are the English combs.  I wanted to get the viking combs, but they were a bit more expensive and I don't think i will comb enough fiber to make the added expense worth it.  These are very good quality, though.  The teeth are very sharp, indeed.

 

Now all I need is time to get started.  The angora fiber blending and the wool washing will be our next steps.  That should be exciting.

Yay! Our Fleece and Roving Arrived

 

It has arrived!!!!!

 

I told you in my last post about the roving and fleece we ordered from our friend, Kathy, at lambkamp on etsy.  This is the listing for you to get something similar to our woolpaca roving:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/77274864/woolpaca-natural-alpaca-and-finewool

Trust me you will not be disappointed.  I ordered a whole pound! We will be blending ours with our angora. That is why we bought it, but it is beautiful by itself.

The larger bag is the fleece, Timmy's fleece, which even though it is raw it is so fine and soft I cant believe it.  The smaller bag is the woolpaca roving.  Just the perfect color for blending with our angora.  It will be lovely.  All together this box weighs 11 lbs and 10 ozs That is a lot of fiber.

 

Kathy was also nice enough to include a paper with Timmy's wool washed and unwashed, with and without tips cut and a spun sample with labels.  This will be awesome for Molly's school project report. 

 

 

This is a fun sheet of pictures Kathy also included.  Pictures of Timmy the sheep at different ages and a cute picture of the guard dog having fun outside Timmy's pen.  How cute.  It is fun to know the place and animal the wool came from.  I made sure to tell Kathy to thank Timmy for us.  Thanks Kathy!

 

Now we are just waiting for out carder and combs to get here.  It should get here tomorrow, I've been tracking it on the UPS website.  Oh, and we are also waiting for my cousin's wedding to be over.  The wedding is keeping us all too busy for these kinds of frivolous projects.  Such fun! So much excitement.  We are building a skirting and picking table, and will have to wash and dry the fleece before we can do anything with it, but the woolpaca roving is all ready for blending and spinning.  Yay!  Can you tell I am getting excited?  Hopefully next time I post we will have had time to get something new done.