Here are a bunch of photographs taken (mostly) by Claire, as I was pretty busy at the skirting table all day. We had a PERFECT day weather-wise … ranging from overcast to sunny and a nice breeze so not too hot.
And here are a few photographs taken by a visiting fleece buyer. This is the main yard.
Here is the fibre area of the yard … my skirting table was set up underneath the blue tent. This was a great idea in principle. Note to self, however: very hard to see the true colour of the fleeces underneath a blue tent! Since the majority of our fleece buyers were helping to skirt so they would get the best fleeces right away, we had to keep dragging the fleeces out to the daylight! Dave Jones (our shearer) sheared for Bill this year, and he did about 35 sheep on Saturday. He will be finishing the lot on Wednesday.
Here I am skirting a large moorit fleece … Claire is in the middle.
I saw very little of either Iain or Alison all day. Iain helped a lot with parking, gates, and back field, and Alison spent most of the day helping the shearer and delivering fleeces to our area. We didn’t get a photo of the amazing peg board put together by Jeff Gilbert with all the Wool Club members’ knit, crocheted and felted objects on it, but both of Alison’s amigurumi sold (the piggy didn’t even make it up on the board but was sold as it came out of the box first thing :-) ..) Claire wasn’t feeling all that great, so she helped with tamer things like the skirting table and the bake sale.
In the photo album above, there is a shot of my spinning wheel, which I took, however I had absolutely NO time to spin the whole day. Two other spinners arrived as well though … my friend Tricia from the County, and Elizabeth from Belleville. This is the first year we had a very educational display and we had a lot of interested enquiries from visitors. It was quite fascinating to present the whole process, from newborn lamb to finished skeins of handspun wool. Elizabeth arrives every year faithfully to purchase Iris’s fleece … Iris is an older ewe of Bills who is a lovely mioget (golden) shetland. She prepared a series for the guests (raw wool, washed wool, combed wool … and her current project which is a lace shawl she is knitting from the wool!)
We didn’t have the crowds we thought we’d have, and I’m not sure how good a fundraiser it was for the club, but it sure was FUN :-).
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