Author Topic: Hello from Shropshire borders  (Read 4205 times)

Acornkaz

  • Joined Mar 2021
Hello from Shropshire borders
« on: August 19, 2022, 06:24:05 am »
Hello everyone I have been a member for a while and enjoyed reading about other peoples antics 😁 so I live here with our ancient cat she is 18, our flocks of Ryelands and couloured Ryelands and beef cattle and our cocker spaniels, we also have a holiday let, we have actually downsized from a bigger farm as the workers have got less over the years, I grew up On a farm and love the life, I have been doing some vegetarian wool rugs wondering if anyone else has had a go

SallyintNorth

  • Joined Feb 2011
  • Cornwall
  • Rarely short of an opinion but I mean well
    • Trelay Cohousing Community
Re: Hello from Shropshire borders
« Reply #1 on: August 19, 2022, 09:31:43 am »
Welcome [member=211879]Acornkaz[/member]  :wave:

Yes, I have had a go at a veggie rug, when my Icelandic x "Pugling" had a semi-felted fleece one year.  The rug has a few thin spots, at some point I will attempt to needlefelt some of her fleece (from another year) onto the underside of the thin spots - unless you (or anyone else) has an alternative suggestion? 
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Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.  Dairy cows (rearing their own calves for beef), pigs, sheep for meat and fleece, ducks and hens for eggs, veg and fruit growing

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Hello from Shropshire borders
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2022, 08:45:07 am »
Hello and welcome from  :raining: Carnoustie.

Acornkaz

  • Joined Mar 2021
Re: Hello from Shropshire borders
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2022, 05:34:16 am »
Hi sally I would try needle felting the thin bits that’s a good idea, i have also done this on my thin bits, watch out with those barbed needles though.

Rosemary

  • Joined Oct 2007
  • Barry, Angus, Scotland
    • The Accidental Smallholder
Re: Hello from Shropshire borders
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2022, 06:43:48 am »
Hello and welcome from  :sunshine: Carnoustie! We kept Coloured Ryelands for 15 years. Loved them.

 

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