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Today The Man and I went up to Marietta Shetlands in Bellingham, to see all their little lambs- and two little guys in particular.

These two cuties are going to be my first sheeps!

Meet Franklin

And Franklin’s little spotty butt

(look at those curls!)

and Felix

Franklin and Felix are twins. Here’s Franklin with their mama, Violet

And here are some of the other little Shetland babies, Wicket and Chrissy

And Ruby

John said that the little boys will be ready to leave their momma in early June.
I’m so excited.

I’m finally going to have sheep!

Scenes from the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival 2010-

Knitting continues, albeit slowly, on the gradient sweater:

I’m getting really close to the exciting part- when I get to put the pieces together and work the shoulder shaping and neckline!

It’s turns out that Huey’s swatch was so compelling that I just couldn’t stop.
When I ran out of Huey yarn, I dug some other compatible shetland out of the stash and made it into a hat.

It is so thick and toasty.
Probably too warm for spring,, so it might go into the “gifting” stash drawer for next winter.
(If I can keep it off my own head.)

No new pics of the gradient sweater yet. I’ve for both sleeves in the works, but progress has been slow of late.

And on the fence front, we put in the last 7 posts for the pasture perimeter on Saturday!
Should have gotten a picture of that, but didn’t think of it at the time, and it’s all rainy and nasty out there now.

Will document better once the sunshine reemerges.

Have a good week!

I think I’ve got all the yarn I’ll need to complete the “shades of gray sweater”

(taken on location while I was waiting for a bus yesterday)

and I figure I’m about 1/3 complete, knitting-wise.

So my spinning focus has shifted to Huey.

I’ve got about 2/3 of his fleece washed up now, and I’ve started swatching around….

(same bus stop- the light was really great)

It’s the most beautiful ginger-y color, and I really like it as a lofty, softly spun three ply.
So soft. So silky. And just a hint of pearly luster.

Mmmmm.

Oh- and I forgot to mention last week that the Experimental Sweater finally fulfilled it’s destiny-
I got talked into entering it in the Arts and Crafts show at work:

And all because that silly scarf aspired to be a more than an accessory

Ok.

Time to go play with my fleece.