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Snow Days – March Lions and Lambs
it’s starting to roar
digging out – thanks neighbor!
the ewes are fine
guarding the sheep door – good dog!
March Lambs
Fresh Fleeces
The 2019 fleeces have been shorn and skirted.
Here are the best of the bunch – click on names for more details.
moorit romeldale
gray cvm-romeldale
gray cvm-romdale
gunmetal gray romeldale
gray romeldale
dark gray romeldale
dark gray romeldale
next up – lambs in early March
Granite Spires
Granite Spires
a hand knit sock pattern
Cathedral Spires made of craggy granite, reach high into the sky in South Dakota’s Black Hills.
You can drive to see these amazing rock formations,
but a hike in the pine forests – over lichen covered boulders and across icy cold streams – is far more awesome!
And one essential for your hike would be a great pair of hand knit wool socks!
Granite Spires Socks, unlike the rugged granite, will be soft and warm in your boots.
An easy knit with twisted stitches form rocky diamonds.
Knit from the top down on two circular needles and your favorite sock yarn.
You can find the pattern and several lovely sock yarns in my Etsy store.
Needles Highway – Custer State Park
Summer – New Yarn
Roubaix Wool’s new yarn “Summer”
Okay, summer is over but Sweet Summer and a few of her friends have donated their fabulous wool to this new yarn and it’s SWEET!
Ingredients
80% CVM/Romeldale wool – fine – rare – homegrown
10% Kid Mohair – fine – not so rare – homegrown
10% alpaca – fine – not so rare – Minnesota grown
Some naturally dyed with Marigold flowers 
.
Other skeins where kettle dyed such as Deep Water blue.
And a whole bunch is still in their natural color of winter white with hints of warm browns and soft grays throughout.
Details
2- ply fingering to light sport wt.
soft, squishy, elastic and lofty with a slight halo and fabulous drape
you can find this yarn for sale on Etsy
Petit Four socks – Pattern by Michelle Wang
available through Quince and Co.
Happy Knitting, Summer
Angora Rabbits for Sale!
The bunnies are ready for new homes!
Today’s photos are of two females that are for sale – one chestnut agouti and one chinchilla.
Chinchilla colored female angora rabbit 11 weeks old,
she is a French x German cross with a dash of English angora for good measure.
Chinchilla female
Chinchilla is a gorgeous silver gray color in the angora rabbit.
Chinchilla on the left.
Chestnut on the right.
Chestnut agouti female angora.
She is a French x German cross with a dash of English for good measure and wonderful fiber.
Chestnut Agouti is a warm brown color with bands of blue gray and tan along the fiber shaft.
Charming and pretty – this darling will provide years of glorious fiber.
These girls are available to loving homes now.
We have the same colors available in male siblings also.
Bunnies are handled daily and groomed often.
If you love bunnies – love angora fiber and yarns…
and need more information on these lovelies for sale, please contact me at fiber@winterwindfarm.com for details.
(delivery to the Twin Cities area may be possible)
Angora Bunnies
We have a new litter of angora bunnies:)
Sweet!
A lovely assortment of chinchilla grays…
I can’t decide which one I like best… black or chestnut…
chestnut or chinchilla?
6 1/2 week old angora kits will soon be ready for new homes.
(around the first week of July)
These lovelies are French x German crosses with a “titch” of English thrown in for good measure.
Their wool will be outstanding, their colors are gorgeous, their personalities decidedly charming.
If you are in the market for luxury fiber and a charming new family member (or two) please contact me at fiber@winterwindfarm.com
for details.
Shimmering Silver pin drafted roving
Shimmering Silver pin-drafted roving fresh from the mill and ready to be spun!
CVM-Romeldale fine wool blended with naturally colored kid mohair and white alpaca.
Light and airy – soft and summery.
I’m thinking lace knitting – socks or shawl?
Or cabled Barn Owl Cowl.
Or… maybe a cardigan
for sale on Etsy
spring snows
I like them (spring snows) but some do NOT – just ask a donkey!
This is Stormy Dawn expressing her opinion of today’s weather 🙂
a little hay and everyone is “happy”
and… snug in the barn the angora goat kids are arriving!
stay tuned!
Lida Shawl
Eyelets and lace,
cables and gorgeous yarn
make the Lida shawl by Bristol Ivy.
Knit in a 100% CVM-Romeldale yarn called “Earth”
a 3-ply fingering weight yarn grown and produce here at Winterwind Farm:)
An elegant warm weather knit project and perfect summer wrap.
Earth
Lambs – cvm/romeldale lambs
Such a great spring – such a great lambing season!
“Flower” a white romeldale ewe with
her cvm twin lambs.
“May” is a moorit cvm ewe and very proud
of her ewe lamb.
The 2017 crop of purebred ARCR registered CVM-Romeldale lambs has been outstanding
17 ewes produced 33 lambs that were sired by an impressive Romeldale ram
with a micron count of 20.7.
It’s a little early to brag about the lambs’ wool but so far they do seem to have inherited their sire’s fineness.
If you think you would like to add a cvm-romeldale lamb to your flock now would be a good time to get on the wait list.
email – fiber@winterwindfarm.com
coming soon 2017 colored angora kids!
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