Can a Picker SAVE a Ruined Lamb Fleece? | Processing Icelandic Wool for Sock Yarn

Can a wool picker save a matted lamb fleece? Watch the full processing experiment! If you process your own wool, you’ll eventually find a fleece that looks like a total write-off—matted locks, vegetable matter (VM), and second cuts. Is a wool picker the secret to saving it, or will it destroy the delicate Icelandic lamb fleece? In this video, I’m taking a "hopeless" dirty lamb fleece and running it through the picker to see if we can salvage it for spinning. We also take a leap into new territory: trying to spin a thin, chain-plied sock yarn instead of my usual bulky Lopi style! We’ll cover: Pros and cons of using a wool picker on Icelandic wool. How the picker handles heavy vegetable matter. Multiple passes through the drum carder to manage neps. A step-by-step experiment in thin spinning and chain plying. Will we get usable sock yarn, or is this destined to be dryer balls? Let's find out! If you enjoyed this video and want to see more homesteading and sheep-raising content, subscribe to Life Raising Sheep and hit the notification bell for updates and behind-the-scenes farm life. Follow us for more inspiration across our channels and social media: Hickorycroft Farm:    / @hickorycroftfarm   Pantry Living:    / @pantryliving     / hickorycroftfarm     / hickorycroft   Support our homesteading journey so we can continue creating educational and entertaining content about Icelandic sheep, lambing, wool harvesting, sheep care, meat, milk, and small-scale homestead life: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/Hicko... Thanks for watching! Steph and Chris #IcelandicSheep #WoolProcessing #HandSpinning #FiberArts #SheepToSkein #WoolPicker #LifeRaisingSheep