Sarah Jane Humke

The life of a traveling, reading, writing, spining and knitting shepherdess.

I finally finished washing a very large Jacob fleece that I got a couple of years ago (hangs head knowing that I should have washed them when I got them).  It wasn’t that difficult to wash, just that there was a LOT of it.  Most of the Jacob sheep that I have “met” have been …

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So, while I was in the UK the last time I bought a bag of oatmeal colored Blue Faced Leicester roving.  I bought a half a kilo of it, thinking that was the closest that I could easily get to them selling me a pound of the stuff. Half a kilo is about 1.1 pounds. …

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This is going to be a scattered post, and I am ok with that.  It has been a scattered weekend.  Lots of stuff going on that is random and all sort of ended-up fitting together quite well.  Saturday morning I worked in the greenhouse like I “normally” do.  I put normally in quotes, as lately …

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