17 Jun 2011

Visitors

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We had some unique visitors the other day.  Our neighbor has cows.  They have a bull and pasture breed some of the locals’ cows.  A few of the heifers, which were there for breeding, found an escape route through the fence.  They crossed the road and came all the way up the driveway before realizing they were lost.  They didn’t stay too long.  I guess they found out the grass really isn’t greener on the other side…

12 Jun 2011

Weaving Delays

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Progress!!

Look at all the progress I have made on my waffle weave dish towels.  Yep, if you look very closely, you will see I have exactly one pick of purple cotton above the yellow header.  Ok, so it may not look like much progress, but after having a huge sleying error, resleying, and then finding out I needed to add two more threads for a floating selvedge, it really is progress!  Or should I say, it will be progressing now!

After I resleyed the reed, I saw that I had only left one thread on each side for the floating selvedge.  I had to add another thread to each side.  I wrapped the thread around an intarsia knitting bobbin and weighted it with hemostats.

Weighting the Floating Selvedge
9 Jun 2011

Cormo Shearing

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Shearing Cormo

I have finally had time to sit down and write a blog post!  Things have been pretty crazy around here the last few weeks.  The shearer came and sheared the Cormo.  All the fleeces have been skirted, packed, and mailed.  I have sent the uncoated fleece (the fleece that is not under the coat) to the mill to be processed into top and should have it back in a few months.

Fleece on the Hoof
Skirted Fleece (coated)

I have kept a few fleeces and will have some washed and dyed locks in the online farm shop soon.

After all the shearing was done, I spent the rest of the day vaccinating, coating, and trimming hooves.

Alice Cormo Ewe
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