So, I realized the other day that I haven’t written in a while. Things have been so busy around The Loft in the past few months that we haven’t had time to stop whirling around like Dervishes in ages!
As you all know we spent some time developing a rare breeds sampler to accompany Interweave’s Rare Breeds Kit and it’s a big hit. The Kit is made up of 6 very excellent rare breeds, Deb Robson’s Spinning Rare breeds DVD and her recently published Field Guide to Fleece – a must have book for any fleece shopper at a fiber festival’s fleece show and sale. Who needs a field guild to wildflowers – we want WOOL!
We here at The Spinning Loft are very excited to have put together a sampler that covers 6 very varied breeds, one of which is the “sheep that makes Deb cry” in the video, with a great range of wool types and we think you’ll just love it.
It has arrived just in time you see. Why you ask?
Well, it’s spring of course! Even though mother nature does seem to want to sleep in this year – and who could blame her- lambing time is upon us and with it comes shearing time.
I’m not entirely sure which one I like better, but I may have to lean slightly in favor of shearing for what I think are fairly obvious reasons:
Shearing time of course means spring fiber festivals! It means fleece shopping! And boy do we love fleece shopping here at The Spinning Loft. It’s better than coffee! Better than wine! Better than well… anything! (wow, can that be possible?)
And because it’s shearing time we have a few other things brewing around here, so keep an ear out for the sheep bells.
We’d also like to give a hearty shout out to A Certain Guild in Wisconsin for diving into a really fun breed study. We had a great time assembling it for you and we hope you enjoy it! If there are other Guilds interested in doing such a study, please feel free to contact us and we can develop a study package for you as well.
Happy Shearing!
Alison, James & Max
The Spinning Loft
Love the new little baby. She is adorable!!!