I’ve been really focusing on skirting our recently sheared fleeces. With fifty-three fleeces to skirt, there is plenty of work to do, and I really want to reclaim my dining room! On the first day after shearing, we loaded all of the fleece bundles along the four walls of the room: white Romeldale to the […]
We sheared our ewes on Saturday, January 27th, and I’ve been working on skirting and preparing the Winter Shearing fleeces ever since. With fifty-three fleeces to skirt, this will take some time. Skirting, evaluating, and photographing the fleeces is the final step in our year-long production of top-quality wool, and I honestly would have trouble […]
Before we had sheep of our own, I loved to knit sweaters for our then-young children. There was something about the feel of the wool and the thought of our son and daughter toasty warm in the resulting garment. Although I was a busy young mother, I somehow found time in the evenings to knit […]
Rick and I were both up early on Saturday morning – there was still much to do and only hours before our shearer and many volunteers/helpers arrived to help us make our ewes more comfortable in these last weeks before lambing. Thankfully, this was the warmest shearing in our sixteen years; so warm, in fact, […]