The list has been so quiet!
I'm working on some romney roving and just got a sweet little jacob hoggett
fleece I'm anxious to start working with.
Okay... Uh....
We've been doing a lot of craft shows lately, featuring the handwoven ponchos that I owe 'everyone' a picture and pattern of. (I just pulled three off the loom made from a silk boucle. Already sold one!)
I had a custom order for some think and bulky 2-ply yarn from Black Welsh Mountain lamb. (That was the first time that I've ever used the bulky flyer for my Ashford. It worked like a charm!!)
Last month, I picked up yarn from the mill. A friend had been given 43 merino x suffolk fleeces and brought them over to my house. (A friend of hers owns a winery in Mendocino County and the sheep roam the vineyards.) We spent two days skirting them. We took 110 lbs of raw wool to the mill to be processed into yarn. (We kept the two best fleeces for ourselves.) We had a really good yield and we're excited with the end result. We had a batch of white and a batch of colored.
I sold all of my lambs born this year and have another gal that wants to buy a starter flock after the first of the year.
So... things are going well. Busy! And they're only going to get busier! (We're refinancing the house and planning to have the house painted, remodel the kitchen, rip out the driveway and pour new concrete, put up new vinyl fencing and perhaps even put a bathtub in the bathroom (shower only right now).
My husband is amused at the growing list of home projects. I reminded him of the nesting instinct that kicks in during pregnancy. It all began to make sense...
Gabrielle Menn, www.fanfarefarms.com Fleece, handspinning, weaving, finished products & gifts. Investment quality alpaca and natural colored sheep.
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