New purchases, dyeing with madder, another bowmont fleece, and on not being allowed to use the outdoors for drying
Thoughts on preparing her fleece Belle was a sheep rescued by Caroline of The Woolly Patchwork Sheep Sanctuary near Lampeter. She had been used for breeding and for wool but as she was getting older she and her daughter, Bonnet, were going to be sent for slaughter the following spring with another frightened little soul, Blue. They weren’t really cared for in their last winter on the farm and all were bags of bones, not […]
Midge, the rescued sheep, lived at the Woolly Patchwork Sheep Sanctuary in Lampeter (https://www.facebook.com/WPSSanctuary). The photos are from that site. Midge was a special sheep who even contributed to Greyhound Rescue Wales! I spun and hand dyed her wool to make a scarf to go in GRW’s Pawsome Auction (https://www.facebook.com/groups/254066462132570). Midge was given to the Sheep Sanctuary in 2015 as a 2-day old lamb. Apparently she was unable to suckle from her mother. It turned […]
