Update on the wool front

I spent the last (hideous) week home alone with the girls, so no opportunities to run away and write the blog. Or just run away. 

For the record here, I´m not a very good (or willing) housewife or stay-at-home mother...

But I did some nice things too.

I visited these cuties when the girls were at school and in the daycare. Poor babies are all sheared... The grey girl is Aland sheep and the white ones are Finnish sheep.

Apparently the Aland sheep are more goat-like than the Finnish variety. They climb and are a bit smarter all around. The farm I visited (this one, check it out both in Web and especially live!!) also had Gotland sheep, and the lady of the house told that they are the bastardly fence-jumpers and don´t much care about human help in lambing. 

Now I want some sheep...

Well, I got a part of some sheep... Three and half kilos of two-layered wool for the long winter evenings.

Here´s how it looks separated. Up there is outer layer, which is like human hair: long fibres, very coarse and slippery... And Pure Hell to spin with my skills...

Lower two stashes are the soft, thin and fluffy fibres from the inner layer. Wonderfully greasy and looks like thin ribbons of silver and mithril up close. I can see some Dwarven projects in the future...

I´m in the middle of some weaving at the moment, so wools are on the hold for now... until comes the moment I need more potent stress-relief than fighting with the heddling of my loom...

Considering that I´m doing the heddles (3x150pieces, one by one) the second time now (blew it the first time. Realised it when I was all done...) that day might not be far.