This is why

the blog has been so quiet.

Haying season has started.

 Because of 2 tick bites, I am back on Doxcycline

for 3 weeks. Therefore, I can not be in the sun.

So, I sit in the truck while Jerry is out on the tractor.

I have a couple of shirts hanging from the visor to

block the sun coming in through the windshield.

 The windows are open to let in any breeze. But, this 

truck does have air conditioning if there is no breeze.

In the meantime, I am balling up a very tangled skein

of our Horned Dorset yarn, kettle dyed by me.

 Hubby baling in the first field of the season.

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And, mowing in the second.

God is good!!

Last year a 'gentleman' approached 3 of the owners

of fields that we had mowed for our sheep for the previous

3 years (at least) with the story that he was a local that 

needed the hay to feed his cattle. These owners 'gave' him

the fields. We ended up buying hay. 

This year, one of the customers emailed to say this person

backed out of doing her fields, could we come back? Yes!

Then the day Jerry was cutting this field we came home to 

a message on the answering machine from one of the owners.

The 'gentleman' sold his cows and would not need the hay.

He would be coming in to bush hog it. The owner did not

want that and wanted us to have the fields for our sheep

and was sure the other owner would as well. Were we still

interested in the fields for hay? Again, yes!!

With my broken ankle last year, I was unable to help

Jerry at all last year. The neighbors did what they could,

but they have their own farms and lives. God knew what

he was doing when he took these fields away. And,

despite having to buy hay, I am most thankful to all

who purchased fleeces from us over the winter and 

spring. That is how we paid for hay and grain.

Now, it is time to get off the computer and get some fleece

work done. I hope to be posting fleeces on the wool blog soon.

http://eweifarmfleece.blogspot.com/

TTFN

Our newest business card

Our newest card made to give out to those participating in the 

Livestock Conservancy's Shave 'Em to Save 'Em Campaign. 

This was inspired by the Vermont Sheep and Wool festival's 

fiber contest. https://vtsheepandwoolfest.com/festival-contests/

This year's theme is heritage breeds. As a breeder of Horned

Dorset sheep I am entering items made from my hand spun

yarn as well as yarn mill spun for us by

 http://www.salliesfenfibers.com/

As Jerry is a shearer of small flocks through NH, we 

bring home LOTS of fiber from a lot of our customers.

(THANK YOU to all who hire Jerry yearly, and to those

who share your fibers with us!!) This means I have fiber

that is part of the SE2SE campaign. 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/SE2SE/

https://livestockconservancy.org/index.php/heritage/internal/conservation-priority-list#Sheep

https://livestockconservancy.org/index.php/involved/internal/SE2

I am planning on knitting a hap shawl from the various colors

of Shetland that I have spun over the years. I will need to spin 

more though as the center takes 1200 yards. I am hoping to work 

on that mid July when we have a week of rain coming in and I/we

won't be out in the hay fields, or the garden, or trying to get the

last of my fleeces re-skirted to put out for sale.

I am also hoping to knit a small lace shawl(ette) from the 

Navajo Churro that I've been spinning in the grease. It is 

not a wool I'd associate with a shawl, but with rugs. But,

this fleece, although it comes from an aged sheep, has 

been outside (both the black and the white) on a cattle

panel getting washed, and dried, repeatedly by  Mother

Nature. At this point the black looks more like a gun

metal gray. I need to go bring them in before it rains again.

I am not sure  if I will spin any Jacob, or if will just knit

with the yarn made for us by Friends Folly Farm in Maine

years ago. The Aran sweater jacket I am interested in 

knitting calls for 1200 yards of Aran weight. While I 

can easily spin that much into a fingering weight, I

would need to spin 3600 yards to make it into a 

3 ply in order to make Aran weight.

I won't get the Oxford back as roving until the 

VT Sheep & Wool festival, so I won't be doing 

anything with that except making a sample skein.

And, I've not decided yet what the hand spun Tunis

wants to be knitted into. Maybe it will just go into 

the skein competition. 

In the meantime, if someone is looking for fiber or 

yarn, we do have quite a bit available.

Unfortunately, it is haying season and we are not 

home a lot. I do not have the internet on my Tracfone,

so I am not online until early in the morning when I am

having coffee, or later at night just before bed (unless

we go straight to bed after chores) Some days I don't

get on at all. So, if you email, please be patient.

Email is eweifarm @ msn.com

When I get a chance, I will post yarn and roving on the 

fleece page. http://eweifarmfleece.blogspot.com/

TTFN