Roving -$16/lb, $1.25/oz
Miracle
Miracle is
a true miracle. He is a purebred Shetland wether, and is moorit. If you are not familiar with Shetland colors, moorit is a
lovely soft lighter brown. Over the years he has won consistently in the natural-color fleece division. I am amazed that this
10-year-old sheep gave me such a winderful fleece last year. He just gets better with age! His roving weighs 2 1/4 pounds.
This is his 2008 fleece - his 2009 fleece won Best in Show at the Garden State Sheep Breeders Show, and I am keeping that
one for myself. So there!
Rascal
I
am listing Rascal's roving here, even though there is only 11 oz. of it left. It will be the last of her fleeces, and
her 2009 fleece was not be up to her previous wonderful standard. She is a daughter of 3Z, who was one of my finest ewes and
a wonderful mother. She has taken on the role of "nanny" to the lamb flock and enjoys snacking on their nutricious
lamb pellets and resting in the shade. Her arthritis has slowed her down.
50/50
White Mohair/White Cheviot
Last year we sold out of this super roving very early on. It has a sheen
you will love, and can be spun so fine - it will delight your fingers! We choose one of our best Cheviot fleeces to blend
with silky white mohair to create this desirable roving. We are happy to report that we have 5 1/2 pounds of it for sale.
50/50 Grey Mohair/White Cheviot
What beautiful
roving this is! The silvery-grey blends with white to create a light heather grey roving. It spins up beautifully and can
be made into many different yarns - a lacy fine yarn is especially beautiful. Again, we use only our better Cheviot fleeces
for this roving, and the mill has done a wonderful job of blending.
Lucky
Ewe
Yes, that was her name! She was the only triplet to survive!
Frankly, her fleece is not the greatest. It is soft but short. I have spun some for a Fair Isle sweater, and it was
a pain in the neck. But there is onr thing you can say for Lucky - she is black! No sun-bleaching for this girl! I
find that needle-felters love her wool and so I sell it by the ounce, at $1/ounce. One customer last winter said "I had
to use dark purple noses on my animals until I found Lucky! Sadly, we lost Lucky over the winter
and we have only 1/2 ounce packets of her last fleece, packaged especially for needle-felting at $7/oz.
Raw Fleeces - $3/lb for these 4
Why so cheap you ask? Because the last 3 of these fleeces got lost in a friends's
car at the NJ show and never made it to the table! We are shearing again in 3 weeks and I don't like to keep them over into
the next year. Consider this the equivalent of a yard sale !
Faery
Kiss - I had high hopes for Kiss's hoggit fleece
- she was on her way to being Best in Show with a wonderful two-tone fleece of grey to white (She is a crossbred). But she
didn't hold up under the "stress test" and her fleece can be made to part at the color change (grey to white). This
would be a challenge to process, but the result would be fabulous.
Isaac - Isaac is our
white breeding ram. His fleece is larger than usual and has great staple. Try a sample lock from this beautiful guy and you
will be very impressed.
Rascal - Rascal has such
bad arthritis that I think each tear will be her last. But this game old gal keeps on truckin' ! She is trained to come out
of the shed for a feeder of grain because she can't compete with the
others, but that has not affected her fleece. It is still soft, with great crimp, a legacy from
her great mother, 3Z..
Blossom - I was really sorry that Blossom's fleece
did not make it to the show - it is especially nice. She always has a good, full fleece, and this year was
no exception. Sold
