After I had the sheep sheared this past January, I wound up keeping Faith's fleece for myself because she likes to squeeze her fat, big butt underneath the deck. It's low enough the fleece on her back gets rubbed and wears off so most of her fleece was even shorter staple length than Babydoll Southdown's fleece grow naturally (notice her back in the photo above). I hated to throw it out so was looking for someone to process it into yarn for me. One of my fleece purchasers kindly offered to do this. What she sent back to me was so gorgeous, I entered it into the Handspun Yarn contest at the Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival under her name and she won a red ribbon. There were seven other skeins entered in the category - Two ply - Medium. I can't thank Bethany enough for taking Faith's raw fleece which was already beautiful and turning it into something even more beautiful.
Today, I finally finished ONE sock of a pair of socks knitted on size 0 needles that I started this past September. Life on the farm is busy, especially this past summer and most of the fall we spent adding fences. Faith's natural color is gorgeous and I love the little flecks of color in the finished sock. Needless to say, I'll be keeping Faith's fleece again this year!
That is an amazing first sock!!! So, have you started the second? Don't want to get second sock syndrome ;-).
ReplyDeleteThank you! Not the first sock I've ever knitted BUT it is the first sock knitted with fleece from my sheep. And, yes, I've started the second sock. Hoping it won't take me 4 months to complete.
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