FINNSHEEP Raw Fleece, Queen Bee 2024, 3 pounds 1.6 ounces, brown and white spotted, free shipping

This is Queen Bee’s 2024 Raw Fleece. She is a purebred finnsheep ewe that was coated/ jacketed most of the year. Very low on VM (vegetable matter- hay, straw, grass from the pasture). 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….and not vm.  She is a beautiful brown and white spotted ewe in big patches similar to how a holstein cow looks. Her fleece is more brown than white and weighs 3 pounds 1.6 ounces.

Raw fleece means it has not been washed yet so it will smell like a sheep and need washing either before or after spinning. The fleece was carefully and professionally shorn off Lambie 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. This shearer has shorn award winning fleeces at Rhinebeck and Maryland Fleece show and sales for many years for our farm and others. He has been shearing sheep for decades and is a good friend too. Check out the photo of it I took while it was on the skirting table after shearing. This is a full years growth of wool.

Queen Bee was born at Point of View Farm in 2021. Her dam is Elektra. He sire was a gorgeous spotted ram that passed along his beautiful fleece, Brown Blizzard. In the bag you will find A gorgeous crimpy finnsheep fleece that is consistent and crimpy….soft and clean. Queen Bee or Bee, as we call her, produced a really stunning fleeece this year….high on my list for a show fleece if it makes it to show season. The brown areas of her fleece have blond sun bleached tips.  Fun fact: In Finland they call brown sheep, Ruskea. We are excited to continue on the productice bloodlines in our flock on both sides of her pedigree.

Finnsheep fleece takes dye like a dream and would also blend beautifully with other wools where you want to add luster and drape to your yarn qualities.