SHEEP! (picture heavy)

Todays posts is really just pictures. These are some of the sheep I saw at the Puyallup Spring Fair. We were also able to pet a lovely lamb named Charlie, but I was so distracted by his extreme cuteness, that I failed to get a photo! He was so sweet and soft. Peanut loved seeing all the sheep and wool. When we walked into the Shepherders Extravaganza, we were greeted by the sight of about a half dozen spinners! Peanut looked over and said "She's makin yarn Mommie!" There were a few commercial , smallish vendors here, but it was really about the small farm sheep. And I swear, Crown Mountain Farms is begging for me to order some Corridale Pencil Roving! They were at Madrona in February, and again here at the Spring Fair! I will order some, as I love spinning from pencil roving (so much easier to have practically no drafting!) And they have beautiful colors as well as a great deal on undyed roving :)

On to the sheep!Gotland Ewe

Merino (Not sure of breed) Ewe and Lamb

Jacob Ram

Romney Sheep

White Blue Faced Leicester Ram

Lincoln Ewe

Black Blue Faced Leicester Ram

A sheep being Sheared. She was very quiet and seemed unconcerned, even with a smallish crowd of people watching!

Five and a quarter POUND of Cotswold fleece. White, and the ewes' name is Rosie, six months of growth (Spring cut fleece). This was a gift from the DH! What a keeper!

Just beautiful curls. This sheep if from Muddy Meadow Farm

a little stash?

i got my ravelry invite, and like most ravelers, I am slowly adding my stash. I added a bunch of yarns off of the top of my head, and added some pics that i had already in my flickr account. Lately i have been in love with the idea of dyeing. so much so, that i convinced dh to let me get the jacquard starter set from KP. Also, he should be getting a largish check from work, and said i can get a spinning wheel ... i just need t keep the total at or below $250. So I found a couple louets on ebay, as well as the babe fibre garden wheels. Not sure what route I will go!

here is my latest dye jobs! the blue will become the latest snowflake sock in IK fall 2007:


and this yarn has been named "embers". Not sure what sock pattern it will become. Maybe the famous Monkeys?



I have been lusting after the KP Options ever since i order the size 4 and 7 to try out. Now they ave the Harmony set. What's a knitter to do? I love metal needles, but others have said how much nicer the Harmony bag is. So do i order the whole original Options, and buy the most common sizes in the Harmony, or order the Harmony set and fill out the with the metal Options? TOO MANY OPTIONS! :rofl:
I do wish that instead of making the Harmony needles multi-colored, they had made each size a different color. Like Boyes. It'd be so much easier to tell them apart since KP has never thought it a fantastic idea to mark the needle sizes on the needles.
And also in the near future, I'll be receiving $860 (which is really like $1400 of yarn. or 175 skeins. whatever makes you most lustful. LOL) of 100purewool from my yahoo coop, which i shared with the gals at KH. Unfortunately I only get to keep 4 skeins of undyed merino lace. The rest i get to separate and mail off. I am also ordering and splitting 10 skeins of BFL superwash sock yarn. I am keeping 5. Not sure when that order will get placed and sent. It has been hectic.
and the surprise theme swap is going great! the first package has arrived, and they did a great job filling out a theme!