After a severe beating from my neighbour (the mother of the woman who gave it to me) promptly beat me with her mop for stinking out the neighbourhood because it ponged so much.
I had a quick examine of it and split off what I thought was "waste" fleece which I will wash separately and use for stuffing material. I decided rather than put it in the bath I would use one of the stackable plastic storage boxes that I had available. I put in a nice healthy dose of washing up liquid and then filled to the brim with water and then put the fleece into soak.
Here is a close up to give you an idea of how filthy the water was on the first soak:
Then here is a pic of the plastic box and its rather bubbly wrap.
For those of you in the know when I have finally got it clean and dry should I dye it before or after spinning?
