romney

since our trip to rhinebeck last fall, i've been doing the sheep study with our guild. it has been stressful, frustrating, a pain in the a#%%, challenging to keep up with two little ounces of fiber. i'm always excited when i get the fiber at the meeting. i love hearing about the different ways folks are washing, spinning, knitting their samples. i try to take it out of my bag right away ( so that i don't forget about it). sometimes i leave it on the kitchen counter where it gets shuffled about and discussed by my herd. i've also taken it right into the bathroom and set it by the sink. that usually leads to it being dumped into the towel basket, forgotten, until i go on a frenzied hunt to find it.
this time, i put it right in a bath of lavender scented laundry soap as soon as i got home. it was drying in the beautiful sunshine sunday morning while we searched for eggs!

it was clean, and soft, and i remembered why i love, love, love this wool. i wanted to really treat this well and learn from the preparation so.....

i pulled out the set of hand-combs. it seems that the deck railing accommodates this perfectly.... plus i get to soak up some vitamin D .....

my little fiber balls came out perfectly! i got better using the diz and rolling the roving as i went along. i couldn't wait to see how it would spin...

beautifully! it's resting on the bobbin, waiting to be plyed. so, i'm done in record time. look at what a little sunshine will do ;)