Next week I will be participating in a 2 day Open House and a Harvest Festival. This time of year I like to have items other than our goats milk soaps, lotions and socks. So any yarn that hasn’t sold during the year I use to make items to sell at events like these coming up. This year I have very little yarn left over..so, it’s going to be a hats season. This box of yarn is representative of what will become those hats.
Future Hats!
Several of the skeins left over are handspun and include a little mohair and silk in the blending. The others are mill spun skeins left over from the CSA shares from last year and are all wool. All of the yarn is handpainted by me and I think the colors have turned out pretty nice this year.
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The Shepherd's Life 
I also love to see and read about your amazing and hardworking border collies. The captions always tickle me ~
I would love to come and visit your beautiful world sometime!
D.
Looks like you are going to be knitting a lot of very pretty hats this week!
Beautiful colors! I’m sure the hats will be just gorgeous.
To quote Marcia Brady, those yarns are “dreamy!”
You are so talented. Teach us to dye like that o wise one.
lovely yarns! those are going to be some sweet hats!
Lovely colors! Thanks for sharing your farm in general. It’s a shame the goat cheese didn’t work out. We were considering the same, but then thought better of it.
Trying to make and sell cheese from the farm in Virginia is just too hard to do. Ours is not a bright shiny new place and we would have invested enough money in it to buy another place..just didn’t make sense.
Great weblog and projects and products! I am working on a book about the building of a micro-Grade A dairy. Ours was $16,500. but we do not pasteurize, so did not have to add that expense. I have always wanted our information to help others, but I’m just so busy working that I can’t seem to get the book, (which is ready), into the right form for publishing!
Anyhow not too long from now….
Keep up the great work,
Rona
Thanks for the comments about the Blog. I think your book would be a great roadmap for anyone who is thinking about starting a dairy. I’ve had the pleasure of reading you in Dairy Goat Journal and love your writing style..it keeps the readers attention and that’s more than half the battle won. You are the one who needs to keep up the good work. I’ll follow your Blog so I will know when the book is published..look very forward to it.- MaLinda