Nettle-A-Long, harvesting stinging nettle yarn

Nancy Reading wrote:...I'm happy that Inge says that this can be processed later so I don't have to do all the steps in a tight time frame.

I still haven't done anything else with my partly-processed nettles after the photos I showed here. But I know from last year's experience, as well as from Sally Pointer's videos, that I can wait until I have more time.

When we moved here three months ago, I was elated to find a tiny stand of nettles growing where we plan to put the house. “No problem,” I thought, “they’re hardy and I can just move them to a better location that isn’t in the middle of what will be the garage.”

Then I found a bigger stand in another location on the property. That was also pretty exciting.

Two days ago, I found this mother lode on my in-laws’ place (we’re sectioning off a few acres from their place, and they’ve been clear we can use their land for growing and harvesting and such). A couple more weeks and I’ll be up to my elbows harvesting and retting!

Finally the next step in the processing of the nettles. First I soaked the half-processed fibers, then I scraped them.

Because this time I only wanted some string to bind things together, this was all the scraping needed.
(to be continued ...)

And here is the string. And more fibers waiting ...