Isn't she beautiful?
She's one of the animals we met over the holidays when we went to a large alpaca farm.
And, because we formed a personal relationship, I bought some of her fleece.
And, before washing, her fleece looked like this:
Now, onto washing...in Dawn dish soap, of course!
So, so dirty. The first round of rinsing was literally mud. It was a labor of love to get the water to rinse clean.
It gleams!!! The farmer told me, "you can never dye something the color that this is naturally." He is so right. It is like a shiny blue-black and ultra-soft. By tomorrow, it will be dry and ready for my class this weekend. Yay!!!
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