Sheep, Fiber and Yarn

Posted by: Kyoko
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27
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One of the vintage toys we received in the mail from Immi & Ashland’s grandparents is a little sheep from the Fisher-Price Family Farm set. It’s a strange thing how knitting/crocheting has ultimately made me appreciate sheep as unique and wonderful creatures!

Here’s a close-up. I’m guessing this sheep is about 30 years old.

…And just for fun, here’s a modern sheep toy:

Granted, these two sheep appear to be of different breeds (the first one is a domestic sheep? and second one merino maybe?) its amusing to me how so different they are!

And as long as I’m posting pictures of plastic sheep, here’s some totally lovely fiber I got for spinning:

It’s very soft and fluffy:

And I’m trying to make something with the yarn I finally finished spinning. I guess it’ll be a light scarf since I only have 2 ounce.

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1   Todd Pitt    http://toddpitt.com/
July 27th, 2010 at 7:01 pm

Creepy Sheepy! Creepy Sheepy! I like the vintage one much better. Has more personality and creep to it!

2   Shana    
July 28th, 2010 at 5:17 pm

Yeah, I like the vintage one better too. We’re showing our age, Todd. (For the record, I hate the updated Strawberry Shortcake too!)

Lovely work on the handspun yarn! It looks like the new fiber you got is a batt. I’ve never spun from a batt (always get top or roving) so you’ll have to let me know what it was like.

3   Kyoko    http://kyokokobayashi.com
July 29th, 2010 at 5:26 pm

Oddly enough, I’ve only spun from a sample size roving once and everything else has been from slightly chuncky batts since I’m primarily interested spinning weird yarn! I would imagine it’s difficult to spin uniformly from chunckily carded batts…which of course I don’t mind but I imagine smooth batts are not much different from rovings. The only question with this particular batt is depending on how I split up the fiber to spin, color pooling would be very different so I’m still thinking about it.

4   Todd Pitt    http://www.toddpitt.com
August 6th, 2010 at 2:07 pm

Yeah Shana, not just showing our age but also feeling it a bit as well. Some classic my little ponies that we found for Immi were better then the updated ones too. I wish toy producers would focus more on quality products and ideas. This yarn = beautiful.

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  1. Perpetual Tea Party » Blog Archive » Spinning    Aug 19 2010 / 5pm:

    [...] my current spinning project using this fiber. I’ve added small amount (probably about 0.3oz — the main batt is 3.6 oz) of colorful [...]

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