Playing in the Wool

After choring yesterday morning and admiring the wool fleeces on some of my sheep, I decided that I wanted to play in the wool. 

I had dyed this roving earlier and split it up and rolled each strip into balls.  I wanted a chunky yarn out of this ewe's wool for mittens and a scarf.  Please note that I muted my colors for this batch.

I drum carded this lamb's wool and it feels like silk.  I folded a piece of card stock and folded it around the tip to protect.

I continue to gently roll the wool around the card stock.

This is what my carded wool looks like before I stack each section.

I will put each card in a sack to protect until I am ready to spin it.  This soft wool will be spun into a sports weight yarn and then I will dye after I have spun it...I want to keep the air in the wool to make spinning easier.  When the wool is loosely packed on the cardboard or card stock, it spins like a dream.  I prefer to spin before dyeing for this reason.  Dyed rovings sometimes has to be pulled and fluffed more before spinning due to the dying process. 

I found this dyed roving while I was going through my stash, I think this was intended to be socks.
I have plenty to do...more wool to card, spin, dye, and knit...oh what a terrible perdictment.  What shall I do????