It’s been a while — I’ve just moved house and am now commuting four hours a day, as well as trying to organise all of our (huge amount) of stuff. Eek. I’m so sorry for not having written for a while. I am a bad, bad Corrie.
Now, on to the main topic of the blog.
JS and I went to the Mudchute City Farm the other week, after finding out the news about Digger. He wanted me to get totally distracted, and it totally worked! I had a fabulous time, and saw plenty of animals!
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- Me, sleeping in a field of clover with the City in the background
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- A goat munching on banned leaves
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- A llama baring his teeth at us.
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- Playing with a piggy
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- A shorn llama
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- One of the sheep — I could have his fleece!
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- A llama solving quadratic equations in its head
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- An angry llama
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- An Oxford Downs lamb at the Mudchute Farm <3
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- Me and my boy in the gateway to the farm
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- Cuddling me a horse
While we were there, I noticed a huuuuge pile of fleeces that had been recently shorn and put into a store-room. I decided to email them and see if they were willing to part with them. After a number of long email discussions and some research on my part, I have been shipped two fleeces of Oxford Down shearling sheep.
I am incredibly excited. I have never spun before, but I’ve looked up how to make myself a drop spindle, how to wash the yarn and where to go from there. It may take me a while to get anywhere — but I’ve got the time and I’m really looking forward to it!
I’ve written myself a procedure for what to do once I’ve got the fleeces — I will post it soon and get some thoughts on it from more experienced spinners, then follow-up with a revised set once I’ve actually tried them out! I’m not going to have time to do it for a while, with the move, but I’m getting very excited…
Does anybody have any hints for me before I finalise my procedure doc?
Much love,
Corrie xx
