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Post by tvatrastickan on Mar 17, 2016 2:18:59 GMT
I'm a 42 year old woman with husband, son, dogs, hens and 30 sheep. I think it' s going to be very interesting to learn and share thing about fibers. My big interest is knitting and I'd like to have more time to spin and to sew in sheepleather( maybe not the right Word in english but I think you know what I mean). Talk to you later?  |
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Post by Pandagirl on Mar 17, 2016 3:20:25 GMT
Welcome Tvatrastickan! What kind of sheep do you have? We love all things fiber and love pictures. Please feel free to share your projects with us and participate in discussions and challenges.
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Post by lyn on Mar 17, 2016 10:50:26 GMT
Hello Tvatrastickan and welcome to the forum!
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Post by MTRuth on Mar 17, 2016 15:58:30 GMT
Welcome Tvatrastickan! Glad you joined us. We'd love to hear more about your sheep and see some photos. We have quite a few spinners and knitters here so please join in the conversations!
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 17, 2016 23:40:09 GMT
Welcome to the group. I hope you share some pictures with us and tell us about your sheep.
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Post by viltmaaraan on Mar 18, 2016 11:13:37 GMT
Welcome to you ! I love knitting also.
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Post by tvatrastickan on Mar 19, 2016 21:56:32 GMT
  Here is 2 pictures of my very first sheep that I bought in sept 2009. Fully coated and sheared. Today my sheep seldom looks like this as I cut them 3 times a year so the fur doesn´t get so long. It´s an unregistered breed from the northern of Sweden, we are only four breeders of this sheep and their specifics are the fur around the neck, on "modern" sheep you have breaded that away. Sorry if my english is a little bit bad, ask if you don´t understand something. As you can se on the photo´s below they can have every color from white to black and everything there in between.      Attachments:
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Post by Pandagirl on Mar 19, 2016 22:30:52 GMT
Lucky you! Is this what you use for your projects?
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Post by MTRuth on Mar 20, 2016 0:58:15 GMT
What fun to have such a mix of colors to work with!
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Post by viltmaaraan on Mar 20, 2016 8:29:56 GMT
What a nice sheep you have. I see you use the same equipement as Zara to shear the sheep, that is common in Sweden? I never seen that in Holland.
Last summer I was given some very nice camel color fleece by a campingholder, but it was awful to spin because it was full of little hay and straw.
It was just like High Chapparell or Rawhide, you know the film series in old days, when they shear their sheep. Lucky for the sheep not everyone in Holland use the Rawhide method.
Because we have good connections with the campinholder , I 'll send him some links of yours en Zara's method of sheepshearing.
Do you also live in the nothern of Sweden ?
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Post by zed on Mar 22, 2016 13:06:25 GMT
Hi tvatrastickan, and welcome to the forum  I am so jealous of your sheep! I love Gotland and have tried other Swedish breeds and cross breeds sent from Zara. |
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Post by zara on Mar 22, 2016 22:01:24 GMT
Hej! :-)
Glad to see that you have introduced yourself on this forum tvatrastickan! And nice to see the photos of your sheep!
Tvatrastickan and I actually met recently, when I bought some gorgeous fleece from her sheep. We also get our sheep sheared by the same sheep shearer, so that explains why you recognized the equipment Viltmaaraan, although shearing stools are quite commonly used in Sweden.
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 22, 2016 22:52:37 GMT
I want you both to leave them a whole year and get some really long locks. |
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Post by zara on Mar 22, 2016 23:10:13 GMT
I want you both to leave them a whole year and get some really long locks. If we left them unsheared for a year I think the locks would be so felted and full of hay etc. that they would be quite useless for anything. ;-) Shearing twice a year is recommended in Sweden for sheep health reasons. It probably also has to do with our climate and the sheep spending a lot of the winter in barns with straw and hay. But believe me, the fleece I bought from tvatrastickan still had a very nice length. These are long haired sheep, even if you shear them 2 or 3 times per year. :-) |
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Post by Shepherdess on Mar 23, 2016 23:37:59 GMT
Yes climate is such a big factor. The 12 inch Massum I have came from an English sheep. They are probably never in a barn.
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