[Bionic]

I have a lovely shearling fleece taken from the Coloured Ryeland ram I sold a couple of weeks ago. I want to make something nice to do him justice.
I was thinking of maybe crocheting an afghan so that I can wrap myself in him on cold winter evenings. Anyone got a better suggestion?

[Lesley Silvester]

A big thick jumper for seeing to the sheep on a cold winter's evening?

[Fleecewife]

I like the idea of the Afghan     

[Bionic]

Sorry Lesley, the afghan is still in the lead

[Louise Gaunt]

I like the idea of an afghan too, keeps you warm and every so often you can give it a little stroke to remind yourself where it came from!

[Lesley Silvester]

Looks like I'm outnumbered.

[devonlady]

You can always wear the Afghan to see to the sheep on a winter day

[Fleecewife]

Come on Sally - hurry up, we want to see the pics 

[Bionic]

Oh Fleece wife, I have lots of things on the go before I get round to dealing with Tonto (brown fleece).
I have been working with the fleece from one of my white girls. Dyeing it with all sorts of natural things. It has more or less all been carded and next I am going to blend it together before making myself a jumper with it.
But even before I blend it I am going to use the naturally dyed fleece for a competition at the Llandover Sheep Festival on 27th/28th Sept.
I have dyed with the following
Fruit tea, black tea, ground coffee, Ash bark, nettles, dock leaves, himalayan balsam, rosebay willow herb, turmeric, onion skins. and blackberries
I intend to have a small batt of each colour and then list the names of all the things I have used for dyeing and the children will need to guess which batt is dyed with which ingredient.

[fsmnutter]

Can you put photos of those batts on here so we can all play too?
Sounds fun!

[Bionic]

Ok, I will put up a picture in the next couple of days. Don't know who realistic the colours will show up on here though.  Watch this space

[Lesley Silvester]

You can always wear the Afghan to see to the sheep on a winter day

 

[BALLOCH]

we were at llandovery buying a new blackwelsh ram!

[Lesley Silvester]

I now have a Castlemilk Moorit fleece to work on. No idea what I'm going to do with it but I so love the colour.

[Bionic]

I now have a Castlemilk Moorit fleece to work on. No idea what I'm going to do with it but I so love the colour.
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I didn't get on well with the CMM fleece I had but agree, its a lovely colour]