FINNSHEEP Raw Fleece, White, Pina Colada 2024, 2 pounds 9.1 ounces, free shipping

This is Pina Colada’s 2024 Raw Fleece. Pina Colada is a purebred finnsheep lamb that was coated/ jacketed much of the year. Very low on VM (vegetable matter- hay, straw, grass from the pasture). I skirted it 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. It weighs 2 pounds 9.1 ounces. She is not coated all year long so you will find some VM in there but not much, I promise. I spent a good amount of time on the skirting table picking out any stray hay pieces I found making sure that is the case. Her fleece was blown out prior to coating so the spin area is really really nice and clean.

Pina Colada was born at Point of View Farm in 2022. Her fleece is soft and would be nice for next to the skin wear. Pina Colada is a daughter of Prism, one of our other white ewes at Point of View Farm. She is carrying on the tradition of a few white sheep in our mostly natural colored flock. She was the last ewe to lamb in 2024 and gave us 4 beautiful lambs, 3 of which are white just like she is.

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). Pearl’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 is a good friend too. 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 LOVE to dye finnsheep. Pina Colada’s white fleece would be beautiful dyed too. You decide.