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For those of you who wash, flick, and card/comb your own wool, have you ever used leftover wool to make wool balls for dryer usage?
It seems like a good way of using up the wool that is too neppy for spinning, but perhaps there's something I'm not considering.
I guess everyone has their own process.
From a proper fleece I usually get 35-40% in weight of 1st combed top, and an extra 20-25 of the second combing, that's between 55-65 % yield in spinning fibers, I can lengthen it a bit with carding if I paid a lot and get really good mixing with other fibers or felting material.
Usually I have a good 10% junk, poop sunburnt wool and debris, and 15% unusable wool, either too short too tangled or too brittle that ends up in filling material unless there's too much pointy debris in it (sometimes all the debris stay in the worse wool I never understood why)
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