The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Marketplace => Topic started by: Brucklay on September 25, 2012, 01:18:58 pm
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I have a few lovely shetland fleeces left - perfect for spinning, a selection of colours - I'll bring them to the Scottish Smallerholder Show if anyone is interested - would like £10 per fleece but open to offers
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What colours you got?
Are they skirted? 'Raw' or washed?
(Happy to pre-book one or two, just would like to know whatcha got!)
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Hi Sally - I took off all the dirty bits (but it was my first go so I couldn't say for sure 100% perfectly skirted) but unwashed - there is the odd bit of dried grass in them, they are stored in cotton pillow cases in the dry hay store.
Should have (2 or 3 grey, 2 black, 1 moorit, 1 white, 1 fawn) all first shear - I'll pm my mobile no Sally so you can find me on the day - most likely I'll be by the goats or the sheep!!
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Bags I a grey and a black, please! :excited: :excited:
Will text you so you have my mobile # in your phone too :)
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Hi Brucklay, when you say 'grey', do you mean grey katmoget, or grey all over? If grey all over then I would like one of those please and maybe the moorit if it's fine.
I won't be at the show :( but my OH will be judging the 'best horns' class so can check and collect (and pay for ;D ) the fleeces if he likes them too - is this ok?
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I know there are people coming who want to buy fleece :thumbsup:
So if you've got any left after the TAS team are finished with you, bring them along ;D
Same goes for anyone else coming ;)
Ooooooooh :excited:
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As there is interest I'll bring them all and anyone interested can see if they are up to your expectations - may be a bit 'Arthur Daley' out of the back of my van :)
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I know there are people coming who want to buy fleece :thumbsup:
So if you've got any left after the TAS team are finished with you, bring them along ;D
Same goes for anyone else coming ;)
Ooooooooh :excited:
1. And that's why I didn't bags the fawn, too - didn't want to be too greedy!
2. Yes there certainly are more people coming for fleeces and spinning-related stuff, some are bringing wheels hoping to Spin-along with us in Spinners' Corner - so I hope you've got us enough room there for a few visitors, Karen... ;)
:excited: Me too! :excited:
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I'm not asking for one to be reserved but i'm amazed that a fleece can be worth ten pounds! What makes the Shetland fleece so valuable? Do you shear your lambs too? This isn't a cheeky post, i'm really pleased to see wool being taken seriously :)
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Good fleece for spinners and other handcrafters has a value, yes.
Here's an example.
Someone on Ravelry was destashing some fleece; she just wanted postal costs, needed to make some space and wanted to know her collection was going to be put to some use.
I bought a scoured (washed) Shetland, cost me £3.40 for the postage plus the PayPal charge, so about £3.65 or thereabouts.
The fleece is pretty colours, beautifully crimped, well washed - but brittle as heck and completely useless. (Except to demonstrate brittle fleece to spinners - I'll have a sample with me at the Festival for exactly that reason. ;))
So I can get useless fleece for £3.65/each. (Yes I'm sure she'd refund the postage - but it was clearly a mistake through ignorance and she hadn't profited by it, so I spared her blushes.)
Or I could buy fleeces off eBay for £5/each plus postage - and find them also not good for spinning. Or I could pay a friend a tenner for a fleece I can use. :thumbsup: Bargain!
Price, cost and value.
Fleeces at Woolfest were priced mostly in the £10 - £20 bracket. I was very tempted by a £20 Portland - beautiful condition, lovely fawn colour, gorgeous soft fleece. But didn't as we were en route on holiday and I thought it a bit antisocial to carry an unwashed fleece all round Wiltshire and Devon with us! :D
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Thank you for posting the spinners point of view Sally - I have only been going off a post earlier in the year which I can't find now that Fleecewife said a fleece that was worth spinning was worth £10 - so some of mine may be no good but I am going to bring all so I can learn what I have done wrong.
Peronally I think I have to make the most of the little I have to sustain my very little croft - hoping to have a go at making crooks as the Castlemilks have such lovely horns but that will be for another post in the future and another learning curve. :thumbsup:
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Peronally I think I have to make the most of the little I have to sustain my very little croft - hoping to have a go at making crooks as the Castlemilks have such lovely horns but that will be for another post in the future and another learning curve. :thumbsup:
Oooooh, make a point of looking for Tom Stewart at the festival ;) He's the stick section judge and part of the Scottish Crookmakers - he's also made (and won with) a fair few sticks :thumbsup: He'll be more than happy to tell you all about it and might even know people in stick clubs up your way.
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On a different note, if anybody has a spare fleece or 2 not suitable for spinning i would be interested in them as a nice warm bed for the ferrets this winter. ;D
Mandy
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After mine have been inspected you may find more than you want coming your way Milly Molly :innocent:
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Hi MillyMolly :wave: I have bags and bags of older fleece you can choose from when you are over this way (black of course) :sheep: :sheep: :sheep: - no ferret emoticon ::)
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That's brilliant Juliet :excited: happy toasty ferrets this winter :hug: ta much
I see Gordon's going up, he traveling that morning or going the night before?
Mandy
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That morning Mandy but by bike :raining: :cold: ;D Sorry - not much help