Pre-spinning complete
This weekend we finished spinning the yarn for the pre-knit portion of the sheep to shawl competition. here is some of it still on the wheel And here is some of it on my couch surrounded by rolags. now all we have to to do is knit it up!
Washing the fleece
Since I haven’t uploaded any pictures of us carding, i thought i might explain how we washed our wensleydale-cross fleece. I have had experience washing only 2 fleeces before, with my friend Gen. The first was Speckles. Speckles was some kind of targhee blend that had really crimpy (frizzy) wool. …
One night of carding complete.
I think that everyone got a good start on developing their carding callouses last night. There was carding from about 6-11 pm. i think that the quality of the rolags may have peaked at about 9 p.m., but we will see how things go tonight. Here is a list of …
Dirty Fleece
Hooray! The fleece that we need to prepare for the pre-knit portion of our shawl arrived! Here is a crappy camera-phone picture of the filthy wensleydale-cross lamb fleece. Eeew. It supposed to be white… Gen and I (mostly Gen) washed it up at my old apartment on sunday and it …
shawl progress
The pattern is actually called a poncho but I am officially never calling that because i hate ponchos.
Now we will have something to wear
i updated my cafepress store with some potential sheep to shawl uniforms. They have a cute graphic and our name on them. A few of the shirts have the picture of the sheep only, so if you want to buy one for yourself go right ahead – I am not …