We finished Third!
out of 3, but whatever – we finished! i am still recovering and am not ready to recount the gory details, but you can see some pictures here.
out of 3, but whatever – we finished! i am still recovering and am not ready to recount the gory details, but you can see some pictures here.
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!
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. …
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 …
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 …
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 …
After assembling a 7 person knitting and spinning team, we will be participating in the Sheep to Shawl competition at the Lambtown USA Festival .’Sheep to Shawl’ is a demonstration that shows how wool is made into garments. In 4 1/2 hours, a sheep is shorn, its wool is carded …