This is a slow weekend, a hard earned day to do not much of anything, which makes it a great day to wash some hand spun yarn.  Most of the time blogging about anything involves making things look as appealing as possible, but the truth is, cleaning gorgeous, exciting yarn involves the smell of wet sheep, or in this case sheep and alpaca, and stained towels.  There is no point in bleeding dyes onto good towels just for a photo op.

Wool is hair.   So you wash it just like the hair on your head, first with something like shampoo and then with something like conditioner.  It’s the temperature change that’ll cause wool to felt, so I both wash and rinse in very hot water.  Then it hangs to dry under tension so that the twist becomes even throughout the yarn.

Unicorn Fibre has my favorite stuff for doing this washing.  Possibly because “Unicorn Power Scour” sounds like something Newt Scamander or Hagrid have to do.