Mohair!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

It’s everywhere. And it’s just about more hair than I can handle right now. I’m washing the fleeces from January’s shearing- because the shearer will be here in less than 2 weeks- and I need to empty all the laundry baskets that I keep the fleeces in so I can fill them again. (yes, I have 13 laundry baskets- one w/ each goat’s name. Oh wait- I don’t- this will be Babies Griffin and Jewel’s first shearing. Gotta go get a few new baskets…) Since I’ll be on vacation next week, I really do need to get it done this week. Also, I spoke to the farm where I get my border leicester fleeces from, and once I get home I’ll be able to pick up a few. So I won’t be sending great gobs off to the mill for this fall, but then once she shears her lambs in Sept. or Oct., I’ll get more. Here’s the exciting thing- I will be getting a couple pounds of (ok, sit down) bluefaced leicester lambswool. So there will be a major fleece dye-fest coming up in a few weeks.

Now, with vacation coming up, I’m starting to think of vacation knitting. It gets a whole laundry basket devoted to it. (yes, I love laundry baskets- they’re great for organizing fleeces, packing, then keeping the kids’ stuff organized in the hotel, hauling towels to the beach, etc) I always take way more knitting than I can possibly do- but wouldn’t it be just awful if I ran out??? So anyway, I think I’ll have to start making lists tomorrow.

I finished the first skein from that beautiful Black Bunny Fibers fiber club roving. (by the way, she has spots open in her new sock yarn club and yarn club- I highly recommend you try one). Here it is…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

353 yds. Almost 4 oz. Very happy. Here it is w/ the rest of the roving.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The yarn is a 2-ply, and the colors were plied into each other, so it lost some of the vividness of the roving. I’m going to Navajo ply the remaining, which will keep the individual colors plied onto themselves, and that should preserve the vividness. So I’ll hang on to the first skein, and we’ll look at them together when I’m done. Joe posted a picture of his beautiful roving from the fiber club shipment here- and I’d be extremely envious, if I didn’t love mine so much. Actually, I am envious, and I want them both.

We discovered tonight that goats love watermelon. The kids were eating theirs outside, and luckily, the goats prefer the rind to the inside- worked out well for everyone.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lastly, here are Baby Jewel and her mom Genevieve. When it gets hot, the goats hide under the deck- it’s shady and the ground is cool. I just loved the way Jewel was resting her chin on her mom, and poor Genevieve looks like she’s thinking its just too hot…