It was a great day for all things Carding...

Our Social Saturday on Carding got us warmed up very quickly...

Lin showed us how to look after our drum carders,
by dismantling and cleaning and adding a bit of oil...

Then we got onto carding our roving (shout out to Tally Ho - amazing colours)
 - it is amazing the difference between each 'pass' through the machine with the one colour.

First pass and second pass blends the colour

You can blend with different natural colours so you can get a different blend using a black, brown or grey fleece. As shown with the below 3 blends  of natural coloured wool and alpaca.

This is the colour I started with...

We then added all the "pils; fribs; rubbish" (whatever you like to call them)

and Dizzed it off the carder -

gave this

Lin's Lavender afer Dizzing...

then adding the second colour Green - I got this

Wow, this was so much fun, and Lin was so good at teaching us -
and we still have so much to learn....