New Lambs – New Spring Dyeing

Last weekend’s shearing was just in time!  The first two of this season’s baby lambs have arrived at Forevermore Farm!  Debbie sent me pictures to share.  Here’s Stephie II and her new little one:

And here is Brownie and her newborn lamb:

No, the babies aren’t swapped up – and I don’t have details on the daddies, but aren’t they both cute!  (I may have to lay claim to that cinnamon-colored lambs first fleece!).

I have wool from both these mother sheep (last year’s shearing), already processed to roving.  Brownie’s is already in my shop in it’s natural color, and I spent last Sunday dyeing up a some of Stephie II’s wool for my shop.  Here are some dyepot pictures of her wool:

 

And do you remember back in October when I blogged about washing those two raw fleeces that I got from a different farm at the Virginia Fall Fiber Festival?  I finally decided what to do with the white one (from a ewe named Maddie).  I divided it up into small batches and dyed it in different bright tropical colors, to use for blending and lock spinning.  Here are some of those fresh from the dyepot:

Here’s close-up of the chartreuse locks soaking — so yummy!

 And that’s all for now!