FINNSHEEP Raw Fleece, Grey, Stella 2024, 4 pounds 4.7 ounces, free shipping

This is Stella’s 2024 Raw Fleece. Stella is a purebred finnsheep ewe that was coated/ jacketed much of the year. Very low on VM (vegetable matter- hay, straw, grass from the pasture). When I saw low on this one I mean almost nearly NO…it is very free of contaminants. I skirted this myself. I’m a hand spinner as well as a shepherd. I dislike VM as much as the next spinner…in fact, maybe more so. I get a little ruthless about skirting and removing all wool that has VM in it so you are only getting nice wool with Point of View Farm fleeces. This is a show award winning quality fleece.

It weighs 4 pounds 4.7 ounces. Stella is not coated all year long so you may find some VM in there but, not very much at all, I promise. I spent a good amount of time on the skirting table picking out any stray hay bits I found making sure that this fleece is as nice a spinning experience as possible.  My skirting notes are that this fleece is clean, almost no vm, silky and FULL of luster.   It is soft, silky and I’m essentially pretty excited about it and its possibilities. Check out that crimp and lock definition.  Nice nice stuff.

Stella was born at Point of View Farm on 2/2/22…very auspicious birthday- lucky girl. In numerology, because I had to look it up, 222 is an angel number signifying “Alignment, trust in the universe and the journey unfolding, act in alignment with you”.  She has some rare genes in her dark agouti blue coloring (color and a pattern actually).  There are not many blue finnsheep in the USA and an fact, the breed registry hust recently started recognizing this color as distinctly different on registration papers.

Raw fleece means it has not been washed yet so it will smell like a sheep and need washing either before or after spinning (if you like to spin in the grease- this fleece would be a candidate for that). Violet’s fleece was carefully and professionally shorn New Zealand style (in a single piece) by a shearer who takes pride in his work, is careful, gentle and knows what he is doing. It is not easy work but, a good shearer makes it look easy. Our shearer has shorn all our award winning fleeces at Rhinebeck and Maryland Fleece show and sales for many years. He has been shearing sheep for decades and he helped mentor us when we were new shepherds. In kind, we do the same for shepherds as well. We very much appreciate his quality shearing and sheep handling skills. He is good at what he does. He’s fun and always has a joke and good story to tell.  I’ll never hear the end of this…or his jokes if he reads that.  Chances are he won’t.