Sheep | Pictures

All the wool used in my blankets comes from my own flock of Navajo-Churro sheep. The process begins by feeding and caring for the sheep so that their wool grows long and lustrous and in a way that keeps hay and other materials out of the fleece. A sheep is shorn (I use electric shears) .when her fleece is about eight inches long, but before it gets damaged by the sun or begins to felt. Once the fleece is off the animal, it will be picked and clouded by hand and then washed and allowed to dry. Then it is carded ( I use a drum carder) and spun into yarn on my spinning wheel. Yarn must then go into the dye pot for colors other than white, black, browns, tans and greys my sheep produce. It is after all this has been accomplished that weaving can begin.

Watching over the lambs Rosita cleans up her 2004 twins

Julio blond over gray four horn