Catching up at the Farm

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I spent last weekend teaching classes for the Ventura County Handweavers and Spinners Guild in Camarillo.

This is one of the warps from the Clasped Warp class on Saturday afternoon. I have more photos of the Saturday and Sunday classes in this post at my other blog.

I took this photo on the way home. The hills were drying out but still showed yellow wildflowers.

After the seven hour drive I needed to go for a walk. The photo above is one I took the day before I left for Ventura County while they were planting tomatoes across the road. The whole story and more photos is in this post.

They finished planting over the weekend and were irrigating when I got home on Monday and went for a walk.

Yesterday I finished weaving a scarf for the Jacob Sheep Breeders (JSBA) prize drawing at the upcoming meeting in Estes Park. This is the second scarf I wove from yarn that Farm Club members spun. There is an interesting story here, but that will be for another post. You don’t have to be present to win one of the prizes. You can see all the contributions here on the JSBA website.

Two bobbins with handspun singles yarn ready for plying.

Farm Club members spun the yarn for the JSBA scarves, but I spun this yarn and hope to have enough for a project for the upcoming Estes Park Wool Market show. That’s less than two weeks away now.

This is Turbo, a ram who is going to Estes Park Wool Market for show. He will be staying in Colorado since he has been purchased. Turbo is mild mannered, easy to handle, has beautiful wool, and sired some nice lambs that were born in April. I’ll miss having him in the breeding line-up this fall, but I am bringing back a replacement ram. That’s exciting!