I had planned to share a Tour de Fleece post today with some more TdF spinning, but I started skirting my spring fleeces the other day...finally...and ended up pushing through to the end this afternoon and what a huge relief it is to have that job finished.
As I worked through big fleeces, small fleeces, beautiful fleeces, messy fleeces, surprising fleeces, favorite fleeces and finally reached the bottom of the stack...and there was Blossom.
Oh!
Inhale...exhale...
Dear sweet Baba. One of my very favorite sheep ever. I still can't believe she's gone.
I've made and sold over 400 drop spindles over the years. I would guess that Baba's roving was in at least 350 of them. Her wool was so easy to spin that she was a perfect choice to help set up new spinners for success. I'd love to know how many of them are still spinning.
I guess I'll use this last fleece for one last batch of spindles. Or maybe I'll keep it for myself. I've always wanted to spin and knit a pair of boots socks. She'd be perfect.
This doesn't look as impressive in the photo as it does in real life :-/. There are 24 fleeces in there. Maisie's was already skirted and washed. I took a few pictures as I worked and I'll get organized and post a fleece list in time for the start of the Bluegrass Yarn and Fiber Crawl that kicks off this coming weekend. More on that to come.
4 comments:
Such fun to see the fleeces that you are working with!
that is fleece heaven!!
That is a pile of work!
Yes keep the Blossom fleece for yourself. I'm sure you will make something special out of it.
I think you need to keep this one for yourself. Makes something very special, just for you.
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