Free-ish wool.

This is the wool I traded the baby blanket for. The top bag is pure Oessant, a mix of more than one ewe and I have a small bag of rams wool, which is pretty coarse but lovely colours. I'll make a rug from the rams wool and see how much soft undercoat is in this bag for gloves maybe and a hat or two. I've never made hats, so that's going to be a challenge. I think this wool would be lovely for my needlefelt creatures too :D

This is the other bag! Well, what can I say? A couple of yearling fleeces with this gorgeous long staple. I love it.

The other fleeces are great too. The sheep are a Texel/charollais cross and their wool is sooo soft and cloudlike. I think I got lucky and have asked if I could buy a lamb or two next year - shhh, that's a secret ;)

I've started making a book with my tests and experiments in. I'll translate some of it to French so that I can take it to shows with me as I'll never remember it all in French if I'm asked!

The wonderful Romney that I dyed with henna is spinning a treat. It really is my favourite fleece.

I'll be getting on with this later today. But first I have a hedge to cut!