Washing fleece while the sun shines!!

I have been making the most of the good weather, by washing all the fleeces I have collected over the past couple of months.

pictured is the blue faced Leicester, and the brown (or morit to be correct) shetland, which I picked up from wool fest. Also the black hebridean lambs fleece, which I found on my doorstep last week, thanks to Julie who I met on the stall weeks ago, she had promised me a fleece and here it is, I have named it Amy, 'cause it looks just like Ms Winehouses hair!!

My felted bag turned out sucessfully, it was difficult to get a decent picture, but the texture is perfect

I also finished of the crochet flower that I started off at Knit knots Knitting cafe, with thanks to Carrie-Anne.

Finally I finished Leia's jumper. This was knitted with hand spun Alpaca fleece, from Fowberry Aplacas. This particular Fleece was from Giselle, you can see her on the Fowberry website. www.fowberry-alpacas.com . The pattern was a neck down circular pattern, which meant that all the stripes matched up perfectly. It fits Leia really well , but I didn't think it was fair to make her pose in this weather!!!