On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Carol Myers wrote: > I had the same thing happen with a new drum carder. The first 2 or 3 bats > were light gray instead of white. I went ahead and spun and plied the Tunis > wool and washed the skein. It came out perfectly white.
Carol and Gail W. wrote with more or less the same idea - that washing it will take care of the greyness. Waah! It didn't work! :( I spun it into a very fine laceweight, maybe caught the stuff in the twist. Gail thought it might be carding oil, but the original fibers were very white. (One was combed top, which could have something applied to the fibers, but the other was June-processed wool locks.) In any case, it didn't come out. I washed the yarn with soap and warm water, no extreme temps. I'll do my white-on-white blending with my drum carder for now, and I'll use the handcards for colored fiber until I've worked the grey out of the cloth. Thanks, ladies! -j. why i knit: what else would i do with all these long pointy sticks Project gallery at http://noodle.pds.k12.nj.us/juneknits To stop mail temporarily mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: set nomail To restore send: set mail
