Sorry for the slow reply but I got buries under my V.A.T. receipts and only came up for strong black coffee.
Maths is my Achilles heel! I even have to count on my fingers to post topics!
Coming from sheep country, I have always been fascinated by wool. After college I was a volunteer at one of the Rodolf Steiner settlements in Scotland. THere was a weaving department and the Dutch leader could also spin. I learnt to weave but was bent on also learning to spin. When I left I bought a Haldane spinning wheel and took it with me to Denmark. Taught myself to spin. It would have been easier today with all the you tube videos.
Now I must have spun thousands of kilometers. Yes, I have my own sheep and do shear and spin. But at the moment I am busy spinning dogs hair for people around where I live.
I often go to markets to show people how to spin. Some more comfortable than others
That looks pretty uncomfortable. I would have been swathed in many layers! Your yarns look marvellous, do you dye them yourself?
I looked up the Steiner Settlement - it looks very interesting, it must have been a great experience for you.
What kind of sheep have you Renée?
I'll try that again!
I think that year, at that age, has forged the person I am.
As to layers - those are layers- I loose so many kilos in spring just by undressing! I have on a merino vest, a merino/silk polo neck, a felted Shetland jumper, a thick icelandic jumper. Merino longjohns, merino tights, mohair socks and a leather skirt HOWZAT!
Or even waiflike... very thin and delicate in appearance.....
Who lives long sees much : The diary of my life in Bulgaria
And back to the sheep. I have 100 sheep. I know I have 100 sheep 'cos I had the annual County inspection yesterday öööh, I don't like that. Everything was fine though. Phew.
I have 6 different breeds, Wensleydale , Jacobs, Spelsau, Gute, Gothland, Texel and Finull, oh, I have 7 different breeds. They were an animal rescue so some are not the breeds I would have chosen. As I am interested in spinning I a enjoying myself greatly inter-breeding them to try and get three different types of wool I like.
Here is a group of my ramsThey stay close in early Autumn- suspicious in case one of them makes a play for the females.
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