For Annie and Leslie

A picture of Angel for Annie and her side kick Leslie, for their adventure at John C. Thanks to Annie for purchasing Angel's fleece for her class, Applachian shawls. I think  the best way to learn about wool and spinning is to start from scratch. If you learned to spin in the 70-80's it was a given to select a clean fleece and spin in the grease, or wash and handcard. I preferred in the grease from one of my colored sheep. Later on, it became popular to send the fleece off to a woollen mill to be processed, but there were only a few mills that processed and the shipping and charges were expensive, and it was not as nice as hand processed. Today there are many mills that offer processing and I guess most people have more money than time. But to choose a fleece on a sheep, especially if you know that sheep or shepherd, and make a sweater or shawl or scarf, is personal, and satisfying, that cannot come from a ball of roving in a plastic package.