Yay! Our Fleece and Roving Arrived

 

It has arrived!!!!!

 

I told you in my last post about the roving and fleece we ordered from our friend, Kathy, at lambkamp on etsy.  This is the listing for you to get something similar to our woolpaca roving:

http://www.etsy.com/listing/77274864/woolpaca-natural-alpaca-and-finewool

Trust me you will not be disappointed.  I ordered a whole pound! We will be blending ours with our angora. That is why we bought it, but it is beautiful by itself.

The larger bag is the fleece, Timmy's fleece, which even though it is raw it is so fine and soft I cant believe it.  The smaller bag is the woolpaca roving.  Just the perfect color for blending with our angora.  It will be lovely.  All together this box weighs 11 lbs and 10 ozs That is a lot of fiber.

 

Kathy was also nice enough to include a paper with Timmy's wool washed and unwashed, with and without tips cut and a spun sample with labels.  This will be awesome for Molly's school project report. 

 

 

This is a fun sheet of pictures Kathy also included.  Pictures of Timmy the sheep at different ages and a cute picture of the guard dog having fun outside Timmy's pen.  How cute.  It is fun to know the place and animal the wool came from.  I made sure to tell Kathy to thank Timmy for us.  Thanks Kathy!

 

Now we are just waiting for out carder and combs to get here.  It should get here tomorrow, I've been tracking it on the UPS website.  Oh, and we are also waiting for my cousin's wedding to be over.  The wedding is keeping us all too busy for these kinds of frivolous projects.  Such fun! So much excitement.  We are building a skirting and picking table, and will have to wash and dry the fleece before we can do anything with it, but the woolpaca roving is all ready for blending and spinning.  Yay!  Can you tell I am getting excited?  Hopefully next time I post we will have had time to get something new done.