Author: denisemor

It’s wool washing weather, and so I’ve got a fair bit of new wool entering the processing pipeline.
This weekend it was Dottie and Esther

So I decided I needed to clean and reorganize the Wool Room.

Things were getting a bit out of hand.
Lots of white bags. And bins.
Washed fleece, while not heavy, tend to take up a lot of space. It was starting to feel a little congested in there.
Kitten hadn’t complained (she’s pretty cool about stuff like that), but I felt like I needed to get it under control.

So first I had to take stock of what all I had stashed.

First I sorted by sheep.

I was pleased to discover that I still have a fair bit of Edgar and Griff fleece left. 🙂

And a lot of Chone. Which kind of surprised me. So much wool from such a tiny boy!

But the main thing in my reorganization plan was to make the stash take up less space.
That’s where the vacuum storage bags come in.

They are kind of like magic
This:

Becomes this:

The turned my pile of bags into this:

And I could do with a couple more.
Wool bricks.
So nice and stackable on my shelf.

Ahhh, that’s better.

It’s over 90 degrees outside and you’re still playing with wool 🙂

Here are some of my lovely natural shades-

And a couple of hats I pulled together this week with a bit of blue thrown in

I love to do my spinning and knitting outside in the summer, but I have to admit, I’ve been inside hiding from the heat the last couple of days. I just can’t handle it.

Boo kitten, on the other hand, seems to kind of dig it. And she’s happy now that she’s got her hay lookout station back.

I think this week I’m going to take a short break from hatting to work on a special project that just arrived from Webs!

Couldn’t pass up the opportunity to knit up my very own Dolores.

And getting nice 2nd cut hay delivered in early July makes me Very Happy 🙂

Here it is all stacked neatly in the woodshed.

It smells so nice.
Happy Happy Happy
🙂

And here is another reason to be happy-

Cherries!

The big tree out back is pretty loaded, and has Rainier and Bing type.

Picked some today, but I think that by this weekend they will be at their peak.

Hope ya’ll are having a great 4th!

Wow. That was fast.

Summa summa summa-time.

White sheeps lounging and cud-chewing

Dottie scratching an itch

And Chone coming in close for a cuddle

He’s such a sweetie 🙂

If you’ve been on the sheepcam recently, you might have noticed a large blue object sitting next to the hay feeder.
That’s a cobalt salt block- and I’m hoping that it might help with them processing the metabolic by-products of molybdenum (of which we have much in our pasture grass) The sheeps have been enjoying a cobalt block for about a month now- and have actually made a dent in it

Here’s hoping that it helps strengthen the hooves. Figure it’s worth a shot.

This weeks hat, fresh off the needles

And a red blend from the wheel

But as much as I love the fun and funky colors I’ve been playing with- I’m starting to feel a need to do a little bit of natural color work. Kind of a palate cleanser.