Blog - Herman Hills Farm

8 Aug 2015

The End is Near…

posted in: Dyeing, farm, Handspun Yarn, sheep, Spinning Fiber, Weaving | 0

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.

31 Jul 2015

Around Here…

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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. 🙂

13 Jul 2015

A Note to Blog Subscribers

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In the next few weeks, I will be restructuring my website and blog. I have already started working on the blog page! Blog subscribers (RSS FEED) will need to resubscribe to the blog in order to continue receiving new posts in your inbox. I should have the new subscribe box up by the end of this week. You will not be able to resubscribe until that time. The blog can be found by going to my web address at www.hermanhillsfarm.com

There will be not box to sign up on the right navigation as there was previously. To receive new blog posts in your inbox, you will need to fill in the information at the bottom of any blog post page. You will need to click on the blog post title to open the full blog post page. This is also where you leave a comment to a blog post. Below is a screen shot of where you need to fill in information. Fill in the name and email fields also some text is required in the comment box. Be sure to check the box “Notify me of new posts via email” box. Do not sign up until the end of the week or when you see the web address for the blog (in your browser) is indeed www.hermanhillsFARM.com I may have it fixed sooner than the end of the week…..

My web address of www.hermanhillsknittery.com will be changed to www.hermanhillsfarm.com. Right now, both web addresses take you to the same website. Eventually, I will be dropping the knittery web address. Blog posts will be sending from the hermanhillsfarm address and therefore I will need to update the code that sends posts.

All is well on the farm. It has been rainy, cool, hot, and humid. Typical weather for SW Ohio!

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