Showing posts with label dorset. Show all posts
Showing posts with label dorset. Show all posts

Sunday, June 19, 2011

A Garage Full 'O Wool

The wild and the wooly.

 


What an inviting chair!

 


Fleece strung on orange snow fencing.

 


A close up of very dirty fleece.

 


I managed to get my hands on a lot of raw fleece lately...

...from an area farm that raises sheep for its meat, not its wool.

This fleece is a combination of Dorset, Suffolk and Romney...

...and when clean, the colors of the wool are strikingly different!

Because these animals were not coated, nor was the fleece well-skirted during shearing...

...there's quite an aromatic scent that wafts from my garage whenever the door is opened! :)

(I can just imagine what my neighbors think when they catch a quick peek!)

I've made two quite disparate projects from it so far...

...and I'm hoping to use more of it, soon.

After all, I'm afraid that if I leave it in the garage too long...

...I may find that it's become a home for all manner of living creatures!! Shudder.

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