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Would you still recommend 72tpi? Or do you think 52tpi would be better for the long wool? I need to produce large amount of wool for my family and am wondering if this is a good investment. Up till now I've been using wool hackles. Thanks!
It depends on your end use for the wool. If you aren't going to spin it and you don't care about little neps and every fiber being perfectly aligned, then you could do the 52 tpi. It will run faster through the lower tpi. If you want to have more alignment and remove neps, you would have to run it through multiple passes or get the higher tpi. For example, for quilt batts, I don't care as much about perfection versus for spinning into yarn. Hope that helps.
That particular fleece, which looks like Olympia's fleece, is currently on my spinning wheel. I weighed a comparable batt (same breed, same carder) at 3.5 ounce. Times about ten batts per Shetland, so a little over 2 pounds! 🤔 I could spin 'til I'm blue in the face!
