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Fiber Love

December 21, 2010July 6, 2017 Sheeps & Peeps6 Comments

Athena – – Coopworth – Border Leicester Cross

Hera — Coopworth – Border Leicester Cross

Moe — Romney – Coopworth – Wensleydale Cross

Larry — Romney – Coopworth – Wensleydale Cross

We just can’t wait to get our hands into these bags of fibery goodness, received last week from Davis Ridge Fiber Farm & Mill in Nettie, West Virginia. We met Jen and Brandon at the West Virginia Wild and Wooly Fiber Festival. Arriving with our four large bags of fiber in tow, we were shepherdess/s on a mission. We were thrilled to meet the Harden family, and equally thrilled that they are starting a fiber processing facility in West Virginia! We sent our ‘four bags full’ back with them to be processed into roving, and, well, you can see the results above.
It is tough to concentrate on the holidays surrounded by all this lovely fiber; next week may well see some shepherdess/s hiding from the family to do some post-holiday spinning!

The New System

May 28, 2010July 6, 2017 Sheeps & Peeps1 Comment

With some gentle nudging from Jonathan and Megan, we adopted the new system they developed to organize our fleece processing – must say – it is colorful, cheerful and effective.

We had some much appreciated help with the ‘triple-picking’ and some fiber room antics for entertainment.

Our skirting table was moved under a new LED light bulb, and in a short period of time on Saturday we had three skirted fleeces and about half a triple-picked lamb’s fleece.

New system, improved lighting… now, if there were only more than 24 hours in a day…

Weekend Wrap-Up, Day 1

February 2, 2010July 6, 2017 Sheeps & PeepsLeave a comment

Saturday was to have been sheep moving day, but by feeding time the wind chill had only risen to -9 degrees and our 30% chance of snow looked like this.

So… following the best laid plans of mice and men adage, we moved into the fiber room and skirted a few of the remaining lambs’ fleeces and watched some naturally-dyed logwood purple yarn dry.

Spinning Easter Egg Painted Roving

March 23, 2009July 6, 2017 Sheeps & Peeps1 Comment

Using two different batts that we colored with Easter egg dyes and kool-aid, I spun this colorful little skein on the drop spindle. I stripped each of the two batts into narrow strips and alternated them on the spindle. It made a beautiful mix of greens and oranges. Will make great colorful stripes in a hat or scarf. Hmmm….. Any ideas????

Spinning With Color

February 10, 2009July 6, 2017 Sheeps & Peeps1 Comment

Sheeps and Peeps’ youngest spinner, Lena, age 11, has been designing and spinning with the Easter egg and koolaid dyed roving and locks.

First, she has been spinning on the spindle with one of her painted rovings from the previous post with the following progress so far:

And she also has been designing spinning batts using wool from one of our our Lincoln cross ewes layered with stripes of the carded locks from the canning box of color adding generous amounts of angelina for sparkles. Some of these were given as Christmas presents to her aunts. But, she couldn’t resist spinning up some for herself on the Minstrel with this result: