Fleece 101: Learn to Choose a Great Fleece, and How to Skirt and Wash.  With Mary Crosby.  Sunday, April 23, 2017.  2-4 PM.  $30.00 ($10.00 deposit holds your space). 

It’s fiber festival time!  The season kicks off with CT Sheep and Woolon Saturday, April 29: http://www.ctsheep.org/sheep_wool__fiber_festival.  Have you always wanted to buy a raw fleece to spin or send off to be processed into yarn/roving at the mill, but didn’t know what to look for?  Join Mary as she shows you how to choose a good fleece (sheep and alpaca), and also how to skirt (remove the unusable parts) and wash like a pro.  You will leave with the confidence to pick out a good fleece on your own!