Over the past two days we have been working on dying some yarn.That may not seem to special, but how about I add that we were for the first time dying some yarn with natural dyes. Since we have lots of Queen Ann's Lace in our field, that's what we choose for our first natural dye. It was very much a science experiment because we had no idea how it was going to turn out.
Here is the very start of creating the dye bath.
The dye bath after being boiled.
The dye after being strained of the flowers.
We are finally to the dying part.
The final product, I think it turned out very nice.
Also this morning we had a rather exciting event involving two of our yearling ewes. Right now we have four yearlings in a different pen then the rest of the ewes because these four are going to state fair. Dolly, one of our NC Dorsets is a very big boss she also is very big and has horns. Eleanor, is a white Romney she is very new to the flock and so has been getting bossed by most of the ewes but mostly Dolly. I was finishing up feeding the lambs when i walked past the yearling pen and saw that Dolly had her horn stuck on one of Eleanor's blanket straps. this has happen once before only instead Dolly was stuck to Rachel who is gets really worried and didn't want us near her. But Eleanor is a big pet so i wasn't worried about catching her. But Dolly who is not very patient was trying to undo herself but managed to get her other horn around Eleanor's leg. We definitely have no need for any broken legs before fair or breeding season.
So I had to rush in and untangle this mess before anyone got hurt. Untangling them proved to be quite the puzzle but I managed to get it done without either of them trying to run off in the process
We just have to keep an eye on Eleanor to make sure she isn't limping but so far she seems perfectly fine. Now if only Dolly would stop being such a boss and then we wouldn't have these sort of problems.
~Nicole~
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