When preparing fleece for spinnign of course you need to get all the tiny bits of plant and straw etc out of it does that happen when you card it or is it something you hhave to do by a seperate process befor carding?

Im relay knew to processing fleece to yarn and Iv just spent the most fustrating  3 hours of my life trying to make my fleece Purple I used dylon which sais its pewrfect for cotton wool etc natural materials.
And all the reports I find say it works well with vibrant results  well I tryed it twice on the same bit of fleece and it just wont take  what on earth can I be doing wrong .
Plkease please please if any of you out there know what I might be doing wrong please do tell.
 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=310089544639

That is a link to a spinning wheel on ebay that im considering buying since is close by and looks like i might beable to get it for just £5 the catch is I dont think its all there and since nether I or the owner know anything as yet about spinning wheels I was desperately hoping some wonderfull craftster on here could have a look and tell me if anything is missing (which i recon it is) and also if said missing stuff would be relatively easy and inexpencive to replace i dont mid spending the equivalent of $3 on a spinning wheel thats missing bits if I can pick up or make the missing bits relatively cheaply.
Please lety me know so I dont wast my money you wonderfull helpfull people   

Oh and another quicky er you can spin any thickness of yarn on any spinning wheel right?

I should be reciving my 1st batch of fleece today to use on my brand new drop spindal I made out of some cds and a chopstic.
Im realy new to spinning and a wonderfull lady fron freecycle has ten tonn of fleece in her loft from when she used to keep dorset sheep and didnt knowe what to do with the fleece.
Iv been reading up on the net as best I can about treating fleece befor spinning and I gotta say I find it all rather confusing and conflicting. My biggest worry is that the fleece may well have been in her loft for a few years maybe and onr site sugested that this might render it useless now since that would ruin my excitement and oportunety to get a huge great big pile of free fleece I refuse to believe it would actualy be useles wools wool right?
Any way any advice would be appreciated on what to do and if there is anything special I need to do as its a bit old I bought some die and am itching to make my 1st skine of blqack and purple wool. 

Haya Peeps Iv been thoroughly hooked on Poppets and just wanted to share the latest ones

When I took my 1st 3 Poppets to my local moot one of my frinds asked me to make her one, when I asked what colour she would like she had to be dificult she couldnt have wanted a blue one or a purple one she wanted a RAINBOW Poppet !


Brina I thik she said she would call her was payment for my new sewing machine yay



Willow here was for my swap partner in the Pagan swap.


Sorry about the size of the pics im noth the most PC competant person on the planet.
Hope you like them

Im sure there have to bee 100s of fello nutty Discworld fans out there and I loved the idea of a Discworld swap.
Im not sure wether I have the confidence (or credentials) to organise it but I think the topoic is full of great ideas and brimming with crafty potential.
Anyone els wanna take a dip into L space? 

Just found I havent got what is needed yet to organise this as a swap but if anyone els would like to organise it Id be bouncing with excitement.

I had lots of left over pretty yarns none of them were enought to knitt anything on its own so I used them up to make patches I was gonna make a blanket for the dog basket but then had the idea of a L shaped shawl wrap type thingy .
Sorry the pics arent so great but I had a relatively unwilling camerman in a hurry and its raining .

I wanted to make some stuff in a sort of incan style the first one was a fiddle ( wire doodle )I made while contemplating the designe of the next one.


The Fiddle


The Incan style attempt

Some Beaded chokers I made all by hand not loom they are my fave bead weave projects to date so very proud of them not that critisism would be badly recived .

Peyote stitch one


I ching designe ,square stitch one


Another square stitch one

Heres a few simple the Tiaras I made recently Im quite pleased with them especialy the one i call the elven looking one.
Hoping to make some more detailed  ones soon.