Pet, Patty, and Bunny!

Yay!  We got all three!  Pet, Patty, and Bunny!

"Bunny" is a ram, born to "Astero" and "Acorn."  He is the first lamb from the set of girls we bred to "Acorn."

"Pet" is a ewe born to "Red Heart" and "Duncan."  You can see "Duncan" below.  He is standing in front of the lambing jugs.  Lambing jugs, what a great invention!!!

The panels from our lambing jugs can be rearranged into almost any position I need with the use of removable stakes.  That makes it easy to accommodate the needs of the ewes and lambs.  You just have to love them!

Lambs - Snowy, Snowdrop, and Patty

Hello World!  We have had three lambs this season; still more on the way.

This is "Snowy," he is the first all white lamb we have had!  Of course, he was born the day before a snowstorm.  It never seems to fail that lambs are born during the most miserable weather or right before, ewes seem to have unusual timing!

I should not have been surprised that he was all white when his father, "Duncan" is a beautiful white also.  However, check out his other babies below. . . 

"Patty" was born to my sweetest ewe, "Sage."  "Patty" has earned her name from Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder.  We have been reading the series as a family read aloud and it has been great fun!  Pet, Patty, and Bunny are three of the horses in the story.  Therefore, if we have two more ewes they will be named Pet and Bunny.  

"Snowdrop" was born during a snowstorm this week.  Her mama is a solid moorit with a beautiful chocolate brown fleece.  I am surprised to only see a couple brown spots on her lamb and two brown ears.  April seems to be one of the snowiest months here in Lander, WY.

Stay tuned for more lambing updates. . . 

"Brickless" Shawl

I am teaching this shawl class at our local art center: Lander Art Center, Lander, WY on Saturday, March 28 and Saturday, April 4 from 10 am to 12 pm.

This is another delightful pattern from Martina Behm!  This is an asymmetrical scarf with three pattern repeats; lacy pattern, garter stitch pattern, and a ribbing pattern.

I made a set of cards with the repeating patterns and put them on a ring to help keep track of my rows.  As I complete a row I flip the card to the next one and keep going!

I am blocking this shawl as I write this!  I decided to block all at once because it will be hard to keep my kids away from the table for one day, let alone two days.

Hats

I am going to try to blog my fiber experiences and ideas from Lander, Wyoming. I moved with my family to Lander in August 2012. A lot of changes have happened in the last 5 months. I wonder where the time has went. . . it feels like we just moved here yesterday. One of the most important events was my mother's diagnosis with stomach cancer the day before Thanksgiving. She asked me if I would knit her a bunch of hats for the chemo treatments and of course I said yes! When I flew back to New York in December we went to our local yarn store, Finger Lakes Fibers, in Watkins Glen, NY. My mother picked many beautiful yarns and we chose a book that I had been eyeing for some time: Weekend Hats by Cecily Glowik MacDonald and Melissa Labarre. The second hat from the book that I am working on is the "Flyer Cap." I am using a beautiful blue Cascade Pima Cotton. You will notice that there are no buttons yet. . . they are on order from Knit Picks! Here is the first hat I made from the book. I did not finish the hat completely because my Mom already had a button she wanted to use. I also left the ribbon long in case she needed to resize the hat.