Very grateful to the farmer who left it in a designated spot for me to collect.
It makes up for the vile headcold with muscle aches etc. I, and loads of others , currently have.
Separated into 2 kg of leg/side wool and 3 kg of choice back wool , small amount of dagging gone to the flower beds.
This feels very nice and soft. Washed a few locks and the lanolin came off easily with a little washing up liquid. Probably don't need the soap - indeed the locks got very soapy from very little soap.Spun a bit (of course) and seems to make a nice soft moderately lustrous yarn.
Wonder how this compares with the Bluefaced Leicester as a good wool sheep to do well here in Ireland. I think the Galways's meat may be preferable which would make it a good dual purpose sheep. Now I'm tempted to keep a few Galway sheep - but it's early days. Scouring is next - and this will get a more carefull scouring (in small lots in a laundry bag in the sink) than my own got this summer when I was in a big rush to get them all clean and stored.
Of course, the other projects will be vieing for time with this "foreign fleece" work but bring it on anyway.
Must remember this link :
http://leighsfiberjournal.blogspot.com/2006/09/galway-crossfleece1.html
but for some reason, this doesn't work from here so I'll just go to the blog spot and add the rest of the address from there
http://leighsfiberjournal.blogspot.com/
as she has excellent descriptions of how she handled the fleece from raw to yarn. Might get to that point some time. After Christmas no doubt.
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