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Fleeces-to-Go was created to prepare alpaca fleeces for show or mill. Fleeces-to-Go specializes in prepping and managing show fleeces for alpaca owners.

06/07/2026

A lovely fawn fleece from my girl Zaria. I’m not showing it as she has an unusual patchwork of medium fawn and light fawn throughout her fleece- almost like a multi but too close in color. I like the level of fineness, the crimp style and brightness in this fleece.

05/27/2026

It’s skirting season! I’m loving this white fleece that just glows !

04/23/2026

It’s that time of year again. For those that want me to skirt your fleeces, please get them shipped ASAP after shearing. The USPS is instituting an 8% shipping fee on 4/26. I recommend using PirateShip.com. Always use extra packing tape to seal your box at all edges. If it’s really heavy (suri people!) put a girdle of shrink wrap around it. Also suri - pack them within a bag in a box incase your bag splits so the fleece doesn’t fall out. Those boxes get dropped, tossed and really beat up.

If you haven’t already reached out to reserve a space for your fleece, let me know so I can manage my workload.

10/14/2025

BRING YOUR FLEECE! BRING YOUR QUESTIONS!
I will be at the Buckeye Alpaca Show Nov. 1-2. Want to send a fleece to the TXOLAN fleece show? Drop it off and I can get it done. Need to skirt your fleece for mill- bring them and we will get them done! There will be mills at the show. I will be donating a portion of any incurred fees to the OSU vet scholarship fund. If you just want help, bring you fleece and we will work together for fun and education.
(Fleece pics for attention )

07/12/2025

At last! 🎆 Just finished skirting the last fleece for the 2025 AOA National Fleece show . Now to pack them up and get ready to load out 112 fleeces to transport on Monday morning.

Thank you to all my clients for trusting me to prepare your fleeces. I always fall deeper in love with alpaca fleece every time I skirt them. You are producing some amazing fleece! I am wishing all you much success!

I will be at the show this upcoming week as a volunteer. It’s hard work and I encourage everyone to volunteer to work at a fleece show at least once.

I have a couple of other big projects awaiting me when I return.

07/01/2025

Let’s talk about uniformity of color.

When I teach skirting I always talk about color spots in a fleece. Some fleeces can have spots by nature like appaloosas and grays. But some solid color fleeces can show up with spots too. When skirting for competition, always take out spots because the fleece will loose points in the uniformity of color score. Does taking out spots effect your weight score? Not usually. Is it against the rules to take out spots? No.
The pictures below are spots I took out of a stunning white fleece. The alpaca didn’t get the memo she was supposed to be fawn and these spots hint at her ability to produce that color with a brown spot and several fawn spots. I took out the spots and weighed them - that little amount of fluff did not even register.

For mill processing, I do the same and toss the spots like these in with a fawn fleece for processing. When I hand process a fleece I add in these spots by hand on my carder if I want a stripe to make an art batt.

For gray fleeces I do take out spots if they are small, especially silver grays that have just a few black spots.

Any mill owners want to chime in on how you suggest fleece owners handle spots in fleeces they send you?

06/27/2025

I’m loving the finess, crimp and bundling in the sexy little fleece.

06/10/2025

Here’s a picture of a fleece I am skirting. You can see the shape of the blanket. I’ve done one side just taking off the corse fibers and those that are too short( less than 3 inches) My next round will be the micron check to see how close the edges are to the pulled samples. On this fleece its easy to see that the lighter fiber at the edges has more guard hair and a bolder crimp. It is a much higher micron and needs to come off.

I do keep a bin for fiber I skirt off that can be used in other ways such as wet felting, a felted sheet, insoles or rug yarn. Second cuts, arm pit hair, the birdnest area full of hay and poopy fiber all go into the mulch bag.

For those that are just learning to skirt fleece, I suggest using a ruler as a tool to help decide what to take off of the edges.
Hope these pictures help and inspire others to get your fleece out of the barn.

Questions? Feel free to contact me.

06/07/2025

I’ve reached my limit for accepting fleece to skirt for the National AOA Fleece Show. Unless I have already confirmed that I’m holding a spot for you, at this time I am full. I will reacess where I am in two weeks. I am behind due to a rather nasty case of Bronchitis . Yes, I’m wearing a mask.
Pictures of some lovelies for attention.

04/17/2025

This is noodling on the floor at shearing by volunteer 4-H students. The noodle is the moved to a table where it is quickly evaluated, labled, taped and then put in proper bin. Please note that the side edges of the paper do not have to touch when rolling up the fleece.

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1916 Washington Mill Road
Xenia, OH
45385

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+16145650677

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http://www.fleecestogo.com/

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