This very friendly donkey was at the Live Crib in the local village, along with some ewes and lambs and a cow and calf.
Merino fleece from a New Zealand sheep,
Horrieta, a hermit sheep, she stayed up in the hills and avoided being shorn for 7 years!
Christmas dinner, turkey and ham and stuffing, sprouts, etc, with all the trimmings, yum...
A mild green Christmas, I do love the shapes of the beech trees across the road. The poet Gerald Manley Hopkins used to speak of the Inscape of the tree.
Finished spool of 2 ply handspun spun from a blend of fibers, received from a Raveller on Spin-Cycle, so soft...
same as previous, only this time I put all the green/yellow fibers together before spinning
water on the road, near us, took ten days for the men to come out and clear it up
singles of Horrietta's wool, ready for plying
Horrieta's fleece spun up, can't remember if this is the single and can't quite see if it's the plied finished handspun
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| Ashford spinning wheel, Elizabeth |
Primroses blooming in the ditch, 3rd January 2013!
I love detangling, this lace weight tangle was given to me and it took me over 5 hours to detangle.... phew...
Primroses blooming in the ditch, 3rd January 2013!
Thanks for sharing the pictures. It looks like you had a lovely Christmas dinner, and that you got to do quite a lot of spinning over the holiday. I can't imagine how much fibre must have been on that sheep if it had avoided the shearer for 7 years!
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ReplyDeleteYep, a picture says more than a lot of words :).
And you already have primroses! We had a very mild Christmas too, but right now it's freezing and snowing.
Your 'mild green Christmas' puts me in mind of Joni Mitchell's song 'River'. I love winter tree silhouettes and the fact that you know the source of your wool. Simple things, yet so important. Gott nytt år to all.
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