SHEAR SHEEP!
Yes! I am going to my BIL on Sunday to shear his four sheep. I am excited and repulsed all at the same time. And no, I have never done this before. That's one of the sheep I'm going to shear.
Blame it on Cherie, my friend. She is my amazing knitting friend who knits mitts, socks, blankets....with NO pattern. And I'm not talking about simple, beginner patterns. Her mittens are beautiful with flared, intarsia cuffs. We have been saying for months we need to get together so she can show me how to dye wool.
Anyway, my DH mentioned to her one Sunday that his brother has sheep that need shearing. That's all she needed to hear. This something I would say I would like to do and then never get around to it. Not Cherie. She wants that fleece! She wants to clean it, card it, do whatever else needs to be done (we don't even know), dye it, weave it and, maybe, sell it. When I told her my BIL has the fleece from last year too she was exuberant!
"You are going to have wool coming out the yingyang!" I said. Her response?
"It's about time! My yingyang has been empty for a looong time!" Ah Cherie. She's so sweet.
Someone please help me! How do you shear a sheep? What do you do with the fleece once you have it? How do you clean it? Process it?
Who am I kidding. No one is going to be reading this that will be able to help me. In fact I would be surprised if anyone reads this at all.
Scream as loud as you like! No one is close by to hear your cries! CACKLE, CACKLE!
AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!
1 comment:
I'm reading it! I hope you will tell us about what happens to the wool, and show us pictures too.
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