The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Food & crafts => Crafts => Topic started by: Bionic on September 17, 2014, 10:41:03 pm
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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?
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A big thick jumper for seeing to the sheep on a cold winter's evening?
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I like the idea of the Afghan :thumbsup: :spin: :knit:
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Sorry Lesley, the afghan is still in the lead
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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!
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Looks like I'm outnumbered.
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You can always wear the Afghan to see to the sheep on a winter day :)
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Come on Sally - hurry up, we want to see the pics :roflanim:
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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.
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Can you put photos of those batts on here so we can all play too?
Sounds fun!
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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
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You can always wear the Afghan to see to the sheep on a winter day :)
:roflanim:
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we were at llandovery buying a new blackwelsh ram!
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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 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]
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Wear the afghan to get warm *after* doing the sheep! I keep coming in soaked and/or freezing and have a warm cardi that fits over fleeces after yet another change or shower! It's only fair one of the sheep warms you up after the rest make you get out in all weather..
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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.
We did Castlemilk Moorit on our Deb Robson workshops, and found that, counter-intuitively, spinning it straight from the (mini) combs was the easiest way to spin it and gave by far the best results. I'm so pleased I can now use the fleeces my two grow! (Not to mention the remainder of Brucklay's clip - we cleaned her out for two workshops here and another two at Fibre East!)
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I was just thinking how lovely it must be to have your own sheep and loads of fleeces when I realised that I have NO sheep and loads of fleeces. ;D