The first I started about a week ago. An adult-sized cardigan. I'm knitting the Stars and Bars cardigan from The Green Mountain Spinnery Knitting Book. I'm using an assortment of natural colours instead of dyed colours. The natural white background wool is the 2ply from Topsy Farms. They're local to me - being located on Amherst Island, Ontario. The three shades of natural grey come from Custom Woolen Mills, located in Carstairs Alberta. I'm using the 2ply mule spinner wool. I like both yarns and am enjoying the knitting. Progress is a bit slow as I'm knitting the cardigan in one piece. But a few more inches will have me dividing for the fronts and backs.
My other large project is a spinning one. I've pulled out a very large bag of roving. This is from a sheep named "Shine". This was/is one of Carolyn Turner's sheep. I had the fleece processed at the Wilton Rd mill (no longer in operation). I had 5 lbs of roving but have used some over the years. I hope to spin most afternoons while the littles are sleeping. I'll have the finished yarns available at my booth at the farmer's market. I'll probably dye some and leave the rest in it's natural white state. This should take up my afternoons for a good portion of the summer break.
We've got some new babies here on the farm. Pheasants! They started hatching out on Saturday evening of this past weekend and by Monday afternoon we had 8 babies. They all are healthy and are running about in an old wading pool under a heat lamp. It'll be fun watching these birds grow - I love the colourway on ring-necked pheasants.
Littles are awake and buses will soon arrive. Time to go.
Have a good one!
