Icelandic Sheep Market Place
Latest Newes 11 January 2010I have been very busy since Autumn crocheting shawls made from my flock's wool. Each shawl is as ewenique as the sheep. I have also crocheted some non-natural wool (mainly strips of material or ribbon) shawls. I will be putting photos of these on my website soon together with a photo of a fringed shawl I've made with a fine 2 ply Icelandic yarn bought from Carreg Yarns in mid Wales. It was lovely to be lazy and not process my Cae'rddraig fleeces to make these shawls! But it's back to the drum carder and spinning wheel now.
It has been very cold here since Christmas, with deep snow too, and feeding my flock is hard work, so crocheting is relaxing!
The Wool
I maintain a balance of earth colours within the flock of icelandic sheep, with few white sheep, as I prefer to spin and crochet natural colours, rather than dye the wool. However I can never be certain what colour lambs nature will produce from any particular mating! It makes lambing time very exciting.
Icelandic sheep have an unusual double-coated fleece that I love to turn into lopi wool.
Living the Dream
There is nothing nicer than watching my icelandic sheep of many colours browsing in the fields against a backdrop of Welsh hills and valleys. Seeing their coats glint and glow in the sunlight is sheer magic.
I started breeding Icelandic Sheep in April 1986. My Flock lives 1000 ft up in the hilly uplands of North Wales.