I have started to work on the projects that are backed up from BBA (before broken arm). This is a Jacob wool blanket for a local Jacob breeder. The wool was spun at Yolo Wool Mill. It’s very open right now at 4 epi but I have notes from the last blanket I did using this yarn and the blanket came out great. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. But now I’ll have to wait a week (at least). I’m leaving in the morning for Michigan and Vermont! I’ll take photos!
I thought you might be interested in this project and website by Lea Redmond. Lea contacted me several months ago to buy some black and white Jacob yarn. She planned to weaving clothing labels. Huh? About a month ago she contacted me and said her project was finished and she was having a show at The Cheese Factory http://www.artatthecheesefactory.org/ near Petaluma, CA. Lea used my wool for a giant size clothing label as part of her Changing Clothes project in which she “investigates politics and ecology of clothes”. Go to this website- http://www.leafcutterdesigns.com/projects/changingclothes.html and explore more of what she is doing in this project. There are some interesting ways that all of us can participate.
I don’t know what happened. I just wrote the post about the pasture. I finished up with a paragraph about the blankets I wove. That paragraph got attached to the previous one and the photo didn’t show up. Here is the photo.
Also, it seems that the normal formatting of all the previous posts is gone. I don’t know why. I sure get frustrated wtih this stuff. Any ideas?
It’s sunny out. What a treat! The sky is blue and the rye grass field across the street is a brilliant green. It’s breezy, but that’s good. Hopefully some wind will start to dry things out. We’ve had enough rain now that our cellar (about 10 x 10) is flooded and we’ve had to start the pump–otherwise our water heater is under water. I found water damage in my shop–but relatively minor–a few books. I need to put plastic over the outside of the A/C unit because the rain leaks in there.
I’m on lamb watch today. Lucy is due on Wednesday by the calendar, but she looks ready now. Or maybe it’s just that I’m ready. The first two lambs were born a week ago and that seems ages ago now. Speaking of Lucy, her fleece was beautiful when we sheared–long and soft. I kept her twin ewe lambs, Laura and Linda, from 2007 and their fleeces are spectacular. The wool is at least 5″ long with nice crimp and very soft. Laura is mostly black and what a deep rich black she is. Her fleece was snatched up right away. To think that I considered culling Laura because her hind legs aren’t very good and I can’t keep everyone. I guess she never needs to go to a sheep show–she can just stay here and grow wool and lambs.
I haven’t figured out how to add photos to this blog yet. I’ll work on that today.
