Comments | nytefyre: Ping farmleaf

nytefyre

Ping farmleaf

Apr 14, 2009 14:56

I have some wool related questions for you ( Read more... )

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tech_goji April 14 2009, 22:17:27 UTC

heads up kitten, i've got my sources working on the problem, and i'll get back to you on that

bu the first step i've been told is animal shampoo, not an anti-flea thing, but actual shampoo

farmleaf April 15 2009, 01:57:08 UTC

Hey kat! You can wash it by hand in your kitchen sink in small batches if you'd like. It will take quite some time that way. By "sheddings", what exactly do you mean? Sheep don't usually shed so I'm curious. If it is encrusted with poop and brown, greasy gunk (the hormone secretions from their armpits and groins to help keep the herd bonded to each other), or stained yellow with urine, you won't want to use those as they won't wash up worth a damn ( ... )

nytefyre April 16 2009, 01:43:40 UTC

oooh let me know what your email addie is and i'll email you my snailmail addie..
I am not sure what Ian (friend who gave me the wool was exactly talking about).. some of it just has burrs and dirt in it.. so dawn works :) but i don't have a double sink..

jazzerat April 15 2009, 06:44:49 UTC

I can't say what Farmleaf is going to advise you but I had a friend received a similar dirty lot of endings and she dumped them all in her bath tub with a load of hot water and swooshed and stomped... lots. Be prepared for one all holy mess if you use this approach but it was affordable if not pretty and the wool she got out of the affair seemed perhaps worth the effort.

farmleaf April 15 2009, 16:47:29 UTC

You can do that but if you do the swooshing and stomping, you are likely to felt it into a huge, unusable mass.

I hadn't thought of doing it in the bathtub.

jazzerat April 15 2009, 16:51:36 UTC

As I recall, the bathtub clean up afterward was mighty frightful! :) That's a whole lot of lanolin. Her arms were quite well coated as well before she was done. I couldn't honestly recall whether she used hot or cold water, whether she stomped or just swooshed and soaked, whether she used soap... it's been a LOT of years since. Most... I recall the nightmare it made of her tub. Hehehe. She had three children and one bath, leaving NO choice but to clean the tub back up suitably soon after.
That said, it is still a possible solution, if a messy one indoors. Perhaps you could best describe how to do that temperature, soap, and wash-mechanism wise? :) It sounds like I'd have her making one giant felt!