Machine Knitting and everything else...
Slowly listing new hand dyed wools on my online farm shop. The Cormo is bright white undyed so it dyes very well.
Been spending lots of time at the lake. Fall will be here soon… We found an old canoe and pulled it over to the other side of the lake…
The summer is coming to an end. I can feel fall in the air. The end of summer brings one good thing, the end of the parasites that have been plaguing the sheep! I have been doing weekly sheep health checkups. Everyone is doing GREAT, but this has been a bad (or good?) year for parasites. I rotate pastures which does help break the worm cycle.
I have listed some new dyed fibers in my online farm shop. I have more fiber assortments and dyed top to list. Hopefully, I will have most of it listed by the end of the week. The fiber assortments are great for carding. I love to make batts from an assortment of fibers.
I have been using up some of my handspun stash to weave Saori scarves.
I have some breeding stock and wethers (fiber pets) available. The ewe in the photo below is one who is on the sale list. She is so beautiful and comes from UK lines. Her sire is Grand Master Flash. He is a UK ram. I am hoping to downsize a bit so I can introduce some new lines into the flock.
This skein was spun on my Hansen Minispinner. I participated a bit in the Tour de Fleece on Ravelry, but I have been busy with farm work (as always), and I haven’t had the time to do as much spinning as I would like… I guess I will try participating in the Spinzilla this October.
I entered the above skein in the local county fair and it won first place! I haven never entered anything in the fair (except for horses when I was young), so it was a bit of a surprise. 🙂
