Freshly sheared Icelandic fleeces

fall 2006- ALL SOLD check back next fall/winter 2007 for more

Now that the holidays are winding down I am finally done skirting and organizing my fall shearing of Icelandic wool. I am offering this wonderful wool for sale first as raw and then what I have left I will wash and have processed into roving for my own use with possibly some extra to sell. You can buy part or all of a fleece - even mix and match. Just let me know how many ounces you would like.  Cost is $1 per ounce under 1 pound. Over 1 pound is $12 per pound (if you order a pound or more it is $.75 per ounce). I do charge for shipping but there is no charge for handling.

Nutmeg - moorit mouflon ewe lamb. This is a beauty of a lamb's fleece - deep reddish chestnut brown and very soft.

sold

Spice - moorit badgerface mouflon - lamb's fleece. This a creamy light tan fleece that is very soft.

sold

Pepper - black mouflon ewe lamb - soft and very jet black.

sold

Licorice - black mouflon ewe lamb - more soft and very black wool with some locks faded to dark dark brow

sold

Nikki - gray moorit ewe. Her outer coat (tog) is a toffee colored brown and her undercoat (thel) varies from almost white to a pale gray. Absolutely beautiful. When spun this makes a beautiful tweed yarn. Very soft.

sold

Susie Q - this pretty moorit mouflon girl gives me beautiful lambs every year. She has a pretty brown fleece with some silvering. Soft.

sold

Iselle - white ewe. Iselle carries spotting under her white pattern. Almost every year she has given me a spotted lamb. When spotting is hiding under the white pattern of an icelandic sheep the wool tends to be very white - and Iselle is a ewe that has very very white wool. Very pretty and soft with very good luster.

sold

Mayzie - moorit ewe. Mayzie is a dark shade of brown. It reminds me of dark chocolate. It is very pretty and quite soft.

sold

Melly - white ewe. Melly's wool this year is extremely nice and she grew lots of it. Her lamb was still born this year so she was able to devote all her energy into growing an incredible fleece.

sold

Carmel - moorit ewe. This sweet girl comes up to me for scratches. She has pretty color wool that reminds me of carmel - one of my favorite candies. Soft wool.

sold

Maggie - moorit badgerface ewe. Maggie's wool is very soft and a very pale beige color.

sold

Honey - moorit badgerface mouflon ewe. Honey has some nice soft wool of an antique white color.

sold

Granger - moorit ram. This deep chestnut colored fleece is quite impressive. Not quite as soft as my girls but still very nice - definitely not coarse. Very pretty but quite a bit of musky odor

sold

Digory - black mouflon badgerface. This is a beautiful fleece and is actually softer then some of my girls. Slight musky odor but really not too bad. Most of this wool is creamy but with black wool peppered throughout making it quite variegated which you cant see so much from the sample picture I took.

sold

Hand dyed braided roving

I now have some more braided roving available. I warn you though that supplies wont last long - I have sold half before I was able to even post it on my site here. I brought several of these braids with me to Michigan Fiber Festival this past August and they were a huge hit. I had almost sold out of them by the end of the day on Friday. I finally had time to make more - each braid is individually dyed so even though I can get them close when doing a batch - no two are exactly alike. The wool is my Silver Ice blend and started out light gray before dyeing. This blend contains about 60% white border leichester, 20% white mohair and 20% gray mohair. Very nice shine. Lightly pre-draft this roving and it spins like a dream. Each braid has about 3 ounces of wool.

$6 each

Colors can vary slightly from the picture. There are 16 braids in this picture from left to right - 3 red autumns, 3 light pinks, 1 dark purple, 3 light purples, 1 light blue, 2 teals, and 3 spring green. 

1 - red autumn                                         9 - light purple

2 - red autumn                                        10 - light purple

3 - red autumn                                         11 - light blue

4 - light pink  sold                                    12 - teal sold

5 - light pink                                             13 - teal sold

6 - light pink                                             14 - green

7 - dark purple sold                                   15 - green sold

8 - light purple                                          16 - green sold

These three batches of roving are real close in color with Silver Ice (left) being the lightest, Pewter (middle) and the dark gray Icelandic roving (right) being the darkest.

Silver Ice consists of 60% border leichester and 40% mohair. 13 bags remaining.

Pewter consists of 40% icelandic, 40% mohair and 20% alpaca. sold out

Icelandic consists of 100% Icelandic wool. sold out

 Each bag contains approximately 3 ounces of wool

 $5 each

I have a few lots of hand dyed wool for felting. Each strand of the braid has been dyed to consist of a wide variety of tones and colors. This wool works great to embellish your needle felting and wet felting projects. Icelandic wool is one of the worlds easiest felting wools. Felting doesnt require a long of staple length in the fiber as does spinning. Icelandic sheep are sheared twice a year with the fall shearing being long, lustrous and beautiful. Spring shearing was traditionally tossed out or used for garden mulch until felting became so popular. I wash my spring shearing and have it run into roving for me by the mill. Most of it I use for my own felting projects but some times I have extra to sell. This wool is from my spring shearing.

Each braid contains approximately 3 ounces. Let me know which lot you would like.

$5 each

lot 1	lot 2

lot 3	lot 4

 Square and Triangle Looms

These two shawls were made from squares and triangles wove on these looms and then sown together. These beautiful looms are fun and easy to use. They are made of solid wood with a tung oil finish to bring out the beauty of the grain and are available in oak, ash or poplar. The square loom weaves a 7 inch square and the triangle loom weaves a right triangle with 7 inch sides. The shawls above use the square for most of the shawl with the triangles across the top. The pieces all sown together make one large triangle. It would be very easy to also make a small blanket either with all squares or a combination of squares and triangles. There is a lot of room for creativity. Since the looms are small they are easy to set on your lap to work them and are portable enough to take on travel. The weave that is done of these looms is called a continuous weave. It is done in such a way that while you are weaving one half of the square or triangle the other half weaves itself.

                                                                          $25 a piece