As I posted last week, our team captain this year is Maisie. She's let it go to her head just a little, but so far, so good...unless something has happened late today and I haven't heard yet. I happen to have a small sheep in my "inside flock" that reminds me of Maisie, so I've picked her to be my spinning mascot.
She's wearing a warm jacket because I have turned the air conditioner in the Wool House on high :-o.
I'm spinning something pretty neat this year. 17 years ago, when I was just getting started with our wool flock, we were gifted five Jacob sheep from a kind shepherdess in Indiana. I really didn't know what to do with So Much Wool (hahahahaha), so I had some processed into roving and some into quilt batts.
I think I must have divided up the black and white wools because I remember having some light gray batts and one dark one that I kept for myself in hopes I could find someone to make a real quilt from our barn quilt. Sigh...
You know...I thought this spring...rather than just sitting in the loft, that dark batt could be re-run as roving. Roving from our very first five Jacob sheep. Wouldn't that be neat? Like an historical do-over now that I'm a better spinner...and those sheep are no longer with us.
This year for the Tour I'm spinning Elizabeth, Esther, Jester, Joshua and Jacob :-). There are 2.5 pounds of dark gray roving. I'd like to spin all of that, but I'm off to a slow start, so I may not be able to reach that goal...but I'm going to try.
So what is Mini Maisie looking at in the picture above?
The legacy of those five Jacobs :-).
And we're off!
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