We love to hear from our customers and to give you ideas of what can be done with easy-to-spin Cheviot
fleeces and what our lambs are up to in their new homes.
Living Hope Church, near our farm, puts on a biennial
pageant of the Journey to Bethlehem. The Journey begins in the village, complete with 18 shops and shopkeepers and two inns.
In the photo on the right Pete, as the tanner, haggles with a potential buyer. We share our sheep with them and this year
we had four sheep out in the field, with sheep from two other farms. Some shepherds gathered around bonfires while others
walked their sheep around the field and even through the village.
The same church,
Living Hope, is producing a program for vacation Bible Schools across the country. They needed some pictures of Jesus as a
shepherd, so we provided little Isaewe, a 7-month-old ewe to pose with him. Toni was there, snapping away - one of these shots
may be next year's Christmas card !
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Terri
Brown, of Virginia, has had a busy year and captured it on camera for us. To the left are pictures of her ram, Gideon, who
won Best in Show at the Facquier County fair two weeks after he arrived at her farm in 2010. Her daughter Sally, robed in
pink, shared in a Nativity scene while Gideon nuzzled the Baby Jesus. On the right is a nice winter shot of Gideon and two
ewes with their guard dog.
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Gabi Montoya, in New Mexico, bought a raw fleece, processed it, and
spun it on a drop spindle using Procion reactive dye from Dharma Trading Company. As you can see, above, the results were
spectacular ! Gabi is moving east soon - maybe we will see her at Rhinebeck in 2012.
Angela Killian, owner
of a two-year-old Shepherd's Croft cross-bred wether, was thrilled when Andy was chosen by the StarGazers for their 2010 Sheep-to-Shawl
competition at the Maryland Sheep and Wool Show. The group took 5th place with 79 points (First Place was only 5 points ahead
of them). They earned $210 for Star Gazer Farm and the farm animal rescue project there. YEAH ANDY !
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Links - Links - Links
We love the shop of Amanda Hartrich at http://inspirationfibers.etsy.com
Amanda has a fiber club that discusses a different fiber every month - samples and all! She has chosen our Mini Cheviot fiber
for August and is busy preparing Isaac's fleece. Check it out at http://www.ravelry.com/groups/inspiration-fibers
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Elaine
Morris bought Einstein from Terri Brown and promptly put him to work. This is a photo of Einstein and Elaine with visitors
to Einstein's first "petting zoo" event for Critters4Christ. He will be an old pro after a few of these!
Several of our sheep are working in Petting Animal situations - they have lovely dispositions.
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