No, I don't mean from the back end, I mean from its fleece.
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| Cadbury's Cria Fleece |
I was recently preparing some cria alpaca by picking through the locks, separating them at the same time. I put the waste on one side while I picked and teased. This fleece is in pretty good order and really doesn't need carding, so I was just splaying out the cut end of each lock to spin from. There was surprisingly little vegetable matter so it was quite an easy job. After a while I noticed the waste pile was getting quite large - mainly second cuts and a bit of vm - so I decided to monitor it.
After spinning the locks and filling a bobbin, I plied it back on itself and, before washing, weighed it and the waste pile. The whole lot came to 135g, with the yarn weighing 110g and the waste 25g.
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| Yarn and Waste |
I was surprised there was only 25g of waste as it looked a lot more. Anyway, I washed the yarn, dried it and then weighed it again - 95g. That means that there was
15g of dust in this ball of alpaca. I can't even imagine what that would look like.
Now nice and clean and ready for knitting.
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