FLEECES!!!!!!!!!!

FINALLY! The weather was beautiful today and I didn't have to work all day, so I was able to skirt a few of the fleeces! (Well, I should be doing laundry, but playing with fleece always trumps laundry!) I read another blog where a shepherdess was pricing fleeces according to how badly she wanted to keep the fleece for herself, and I thought to myself, what a good idea, sooooo...........all of my fleeces are $100 a pound. JUST KIDDING!!! I have made some decisions, and here are the first few I am willing to put up for sale.

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All of the fleeces are $12/pound. They have been skirted, but not washed. My sheep are not coated, they are free to frolic "au naturale" in the clean pasture. They are fed grain and hay, both at ground level, but they ARE sheep. They still manage to have vm in their fleece.

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Tabitha is SOLD!
First, there is Tabitha, a full blood Shetland. I processed her fleece myself last year and it produced a creamy, champagne white yarn and is very soft.

Tabitha has a 2 pound fleece and it is $24 plus actual shipping.

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Bernice is SOLD!

Next up is Bernice. She is a Shetland/Border Leicester cross. She is a half sister to my favorite sheep, Naomi (whose fleece I just cannot bear to part with!). Bernice's fleece ranges in color from very dark silver/grey to light cocoa. The Shetland/BL cross produces a super soft, crimpy wool, with curls on many of the tips. The bottom picture shows the different types of locks within her fleece.

Bernice's fleece is 3 pounds, which is $36, plus actual shipping.

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Cyrano is SOLD!
Next, there is Cyrano. He is a registered Sheltand ram with creamy, very soft locks. He does have a few areas of very light grey, which are noticeable from the back.






Cyrano's fleece is 2 pounds, which is $24 plus actual shipping. (I don't know what happened to the middle picture - I cannot get it turned correctly!)


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Pricilla is Sold!

And now there is Pricilla. She is a full blood Shetland. I processed her fleece last year also, and sold all of it, with rave reviews, at fiber shows. Pricilla has a few dark strands throughout her wool, which gives a wonderful depth to the cream color when spun.

At 1 pound, 14 ounces, her fleece is priced at $22.50 plus actual shipping.

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Princess is Sold!

Pricilla has a sister, Princess, and they have pretty much the exact same fleece. One has horns, and the other has shorter horns, which is the ONLY way I can tell them apart in the pasture. Princess' wool is slightly shorter, a little more dense, but the color is the same. Because of this, I did not take additional pictures.

Princess' fleece is larger than Pricilla's, at 2 pounds, 14 ounces and comes to $34.50 plus acutal shipping.

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Liza is SOLD!

And finally, I have a really nice fleece from Liza, a registered Border Leicester. Liza's fleece is quite lovely, and I pondered for a good amount of time if I should keep it, but in the end I decided I could let it go. Her fleece is dark, chocolate brown to light cocoa and again, very soft. It is very lofty, and huge! The table on which it is pictured is 6' long and 3' wide, and

I bunched it up to make it fit for the picture!

This fleece has amazing crimp and curl, and at 3 pounds, comes to $36 plus actual shipping.

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If you purchase a fleece, it will be packed in a box, weighed, and shipped from zip code 72936. Please email me at:

lorisarahbrown@gmail.com

if you are interested in a fleece or have more questions! Thanks for looking, and more fleeces to come soon!

~Lori

Shearing Day!

Friday was shearing day at Sarah's Sheep Farm. We were very excited to see our first full crop of fleeces. We got everyone penned up Thursday afternoon to keep them clean and dry. Last year we sheared many of them ourselves, and figured out quickly that it was a wise investment to have a professional come in and do the job in a matter of hours instead of days. We met Danny Smith and his wife at Fiber Christmas in Kellyville, Oklahoma this summer, and have heard nothing but wonderful things about him, so we asked him to do our shearing this year. All I can say is "Wow". He was amazing to watch - and just like I have always said about ice skating, a professional makes it look so easy!

Here are Samson and Winston waiting their turns:

And the ladies awaiting their new "do's". My it was crowded in there.

This is Naomi, a Shetland/Border Leicester. She is my favorite, so I took lots of pictures of her.

Wow! That is a lot of fleece!

And the tiny sheep that remained under all of that wool.

Remember the really full pen of wooly sheep at the start?

Is it just me, or does anyone else feel a breeze?

And finally, a little teaser of the bounty that I now have at my house! All 31 bags of it!

I will be skirting fleeces and deciding which ones I can pry out of my greedy little fingers, and hope to begin posting the ones I will have for sale soon.

Sunday in the Pasture

The weather has turned out very spring-like the last few days here in Arkansas. We know it won't last since it is only mid-February, so my daughter and I decided to head out the door with the camera after church on Sunday.

First stop, of course, was to see the new baby boys. They are jumping and bouncing all over the pasture now. Molly is a very good mama, especially for a first timer, and the other animals seems to tolerate the new little guys just fine.

Next, we decided to go visit the sheep. While we were out, we found the electric fence needs some repair. We had fun daring each other to be the one to touch it and find out for sure. In the end, I was the braver one.

The ladies were a bit camera shy, but we managed to get a couple of nice pictures. The shearer will be here next month, and I am very anxious to have more wool from my own flock to spin!

Then it was off to the cow pasture. We had a new addition a few weeks back.

This is Pumpkin and her mama, Gypsy. Pumpkin's dad was a black Simmental. We aren't sure where the beautiful red coat came from. But, since we had to sell my red Maggie, Stan is planning to keep Pumpkin for me. Isn't she cute? We think she is the reason the electric fence is down. My mother in law called last week and said that Pumpkin was in with the sheep and having a grand time, and they didn't like her one bit.

And finally, we ended up in the calf pasture. I guess everyone knew it was Sunday and nap time. Duke, the bull calf, was layed out for the afternoon!