I'm woolin' it!

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Hmm, seems like FB ppl think it may be too much waste, too.

 

[Bruce]

Felt it and make dryer balls?

 

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So much of it, gotta card it and use it.
Waste box full...

Sliver/tuffs box...

Crap ton of fleece to go...ugh. its killing my interest in fiber! Hah. Might sell her fleece this spring instead.

 

[Bruce]

Crap ton of fleece to go...ugh. its killing my interest in fiber!

Given all you have worked so far I'm not surprised!

 

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Brother is interested in some of my yarn for his wife, so I've dug up yarn to count & take pics of.

The darker grey has another bag, just not pictured.

In this grouping, I discovered a skein of about 900ft that I failed to count and mark. Lol.

This one feels different and is thicker than the white above, but searching for it in the forums, I found out it's the same sheep, just made a little differently.

Brother wants 1k feet of a grey, waiting on which grey...IDK what to price any of it at, though.
Ideas on pricing??

 

[Bruce]

That is tough, probably gets a family discount. I found this place with Google, might give you a general price
https://fairwindsalpacas.com/alpaca-yarn.php

 

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So, I asked the internet, as most do and this is the first reply so far.

"cost of fiber, plus 5 cents per yard per ply is a common pricing method"

1,000ft is 333.33 yards. Right?
So, 333.33×0.05= 16.66
16.66×3 plys= 49.99
49.99+fleece cost of about $40= 89.99
Round that sucker up, total for 1k feet is $90.

Gawd, yeah, I could never buy yarn at those prices. But it is a crap ton of work to get it there.

I could remove fleece cost, since it's Billy's & I'd always mark up his fleece's worth vs the other Babydolls.

I wonder if I should sell the white yarn. I'll never get it like that again. Those sheep were grossly overfed & overweight, causing the longer staple length & luck caused the softness of it, as they sure weren't as soft the next go around. I could see that yarn at full price because of that and because it's more consistent & the softness of it.

Guess I need to make something from it that I'll wear regularly or suck it up & sell it...

That is tough, probably gets a family discount. I found this place with Google, might give you a general price
https://fairwindsalpacas.com/alpaca-yarn.php

That's 1/3rd the cost of hand processed & spun, it looks like?

I wonder how much mill spun costs again...Might be best to send my favorite fleeces to the mill to be spun into yarn, then just add a little $ for caring for the sheep year round. Hmm.

Central va mill costs used here-
If 4# into roving is $50, then there is the $2 per pound of 250yd finished yarn fee and the $20-24 based on thickness...$72-74 or so?
Makes like, two 250yd skeins at $36-37 each, if zero is waste.

Yeah, that alpaca website must be charging less because its cleaner from the start and it's their mill & their animals. But I always heard alpaca being expensive, so that's odd that their yarn is cheaper.

And mills need at least 3" length to spin, which most Babydoll is not...ugh...

 

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Sorry, left out a hank/skein of 160ft of the darker grey from the earlier post.
Making it 2,614 feet instead.

 

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Did the math wrong. Gave brother wrong price. Which happened to be $51, and you'll see at bottom, that I wasn't all that off in the end. Lol!

Fleece fee to full yardage...not just 1k ft of it.

☆cost of fiber, plus 5 cents per yard per ply

2614 feet out of that whole fleece.
2614 feet has 871 yards.
871 yards × 0.05 cents is 43.55.
43.55 × 3 ply is 130.65
130.65 + fleece cost of 40 is $170.65.

170.65 is for all 2614 feet.

To get cost of only 1,000 feet of yarn...wtf do we do...idk...

170.65 ÷ 2614?? I think that's right.
$0.065283091 per foot.
0.065283091×1000 feet = $65.283091
Yeah?

For 1,000 feet of 3ply yarn, full price is $65.28.

Then, to discount fleece cost for 1,000ft would be...just go back to before I added it and do the math without it...lol. Having a brainfart again.

130.65÷2614=0.0499808722
$0.0499808722 × 1000 feet= $49.9808722

Which was roundabout way of finding the discount per 1k ft.
$65.283091 minus $49.9808722= $15.3022188 discount.

Total for 1,000 ft of 3ply yarn with discount is $49.98.

Omg, please tell me this math is finally right...

Edit-
Lol, looks like it took me 31 minutes to do that math.

 

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Decided to do the math for this one while my brain is, I think, working.


WoolyBully/Ewenique blend, natural white w/yellow hue, soft, thin, 3 ply yarn.


☆cost of fiber, plus 5 cents per yard per ply

Two fleeces used at $30 each, $60.

5924 feet has 1974.667 yards in it.
1974.667 × 0.05cents = 98.73335
98.73335 × 3ply = 296.20005
296.20005 + 60 fleece costs = $356.20005

$356.20 total

That's an expensive sweater or blanket. Which, of course, you then add $$ for making the item...lol.