Busy in the fiber room

The Sheeps and Peeps fiber room has seen a lot of activity during these dreary February days. There are racks of drying fleece.



This beautiful fleece is from Blackberry, a Border Leicester-Coopworth-Cotswald cross and is a beautiful mix of shades of grey, black, brown with some sun-kissed tan tips. Portions of it are a dark blue-grey that is just wonderful.

There are screens of fiber in various stages of preparation and plant material being prepared for the dyeing process.

There are skeins of yarn dyed with plants from last summer's dye garden; shown below (l. to r.) Hopi Sunflower, Cosmos exhaust and black tea.

More naturally dyed skeins shown below (l. to r.) Coreopsis, Tansy, Cosmos and Cosmos with added baking soda.



More fiber being picked, blended and carded.



All resulting in some, what we think, are some pretty wonderful spinning fibers, available here.

Rowdy Kittens

Muffy's kittens are about 4 weeks old now. They are becoming very active and more independent.

So much so that we moved them downstairs into one of the lambing jugs this weekend.

They are beginning to eat out of Muffy's bowl. Kitten jealously guards the bowl until it gets its fill.

Each one is so different and is developing its own personality.

Dipstick and Bootsie spend a lot of time wrestling.

Tiger is perhaps the most independent of all and spends a lot of time in 'attack mode'.