Showing posts with label wool quilt batts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wool quilt batts. Show all posts

Friday, May 21, 2021

2021 Waynesburg Sheep & Fiber Fest - Friday Sneak Peek!

 

Appalachian Hills Farm - Beautiful Batts!
Here is your sneak peek at some of the booths set up today for the Waynesburg Sheep & Fiber Fest tomorrow!  After finishing the Wild Rose Farm booth set-up, I took the opportunity to get a few pictures of what some of the vendors brought.

Ashgrove Soaps & Sundries - Nice Selection!
Folks, Lori as back this year and the wonderful smell from this booth is sooooo tempting!
Mystery Booth?

Boone Hollow Baskets

It turns out that we can get a glimpse of the mystery booth in the background of the Boone Hollow Baskets photo ... that's Holly Road all the way from eastern Pennsylvania.   Can't wait to see what else is undercover.
Ridgetop Pottery - Working on Booth Set Up
Finally, a glimpse at some beautiful work in Tabitha's booth ... fingerless gloves or wristlets?
Tatting by Tabitha - More Than Tatting!
Of course, I forgot to take a picture of the Wild Rose Farm booth!  Well, you've seen the skirted fleece photos and the naturally-dyed yarn in the studio before it was packed up.  We have our Rambouillet combed top, Dorset wool quilt batts, Dorset pencil roving and wool locks for sale.  BTW, our "upcycled woolens" rack has several Irish wool sweaters, a vintage green Pearce wool blanket, some cool wool and felt hats and a Marlboro buffalo plaid car blanket with carrier handle strap.  
See you tomorrow! The festival is from 10AM - 5PM. 





Saturday, November 10, 2018

Follow Us For Wool!

Wild Rose Farm #44 Ready & Packed Up For Pittsburgh Indie Knit & Spin!
We're all packed up and ready to go to Pittsburgh Indie Knit & Spin tomorrow!  We had our first snow of the season this morning and that should put everyone in the mood for wool.  We'll have our naturally dyed fine wool yarns, Rambouillet combed top, Dorset wool quilt batts, and some wool locks and llama locks for Santa beards and crafting.
Lace Weight Yarn Gently Simmering …
We finished up some dyeing earlier this week and got our new pencil roving packaged too.  The yarn is simmering in a stainless steel fish poacher that I found at a rummage sale this summer. Someone changed their mind & I don't think it was ever used - it still had stickers on it.  It's PERFECT for processing lace weight yarn since it tends to "felt" so easily if it swims around too much.
Let's leave you with a picture of the snow this morning on the roof of the new garage/studio.  When we get back from IKS, we'll unload all of  the yarn and wool into it's new home in the studio … finally!
1st Snow On The Studio Roof This Morning! 

Friday, October 5, 2018

Wild Rose Farm @ Pioneer Craft Days!

Wild Rose Farm - Set-up For Pioneer Craft Days October 6th & 7th!
Here's a chance to come see Wild Rose Farm this weekend at Beaver Creek State Park and enjoy Pioneer Craft Days!  Follow the signs to the Pioneer Village. We are set up in the middle of the covered bridge & I expect to see a vendor on either side of our booth by Saturday morning. We just got a shipment of our Dorset wool quilt batts in September … we have Queen, Full, and now, by request, a new Lap size at 45"x72". Stop in and see us and all of the other hand-made craft vendors!
Coverlet & Blanket
We're also allowed to offer up to 20% real antiques at the show ("no flea market items"!). The persimmon & white antique coverlet will be for sale. Provenance is Sewickley, PA. I'm keeping the Welsh wool double woven green multi queen blanket for myself, lol …
Snow White, Ewes, & Garden Sunflowers
Finally, a look around at the farm! We've had downpours of rain on and off over the last couple of weeks. In the picture above, the garden sunflowers are in full bloom and they're top heavy.
Wet Ewes & Garden Sunflowers AFTER Storms
A week or so later, the sunflowers were decimated by the rains. We've pulled the electric net fence around the garden and interestingly, the sheep munched on the remnants of the sunflower heads. They also grazed off the parsley & nibbled the basil ...

Tuesday, May 29, 2018

Busy With Farm Projects!

Wild Rose Farm Sheep Grazing & Garage Project Excavation
After 27 years, we've finally gotten a garage project underway. The picture above was taken from the kitchen window. With the big pile of excavated soil, it felt like we had a view of the Rocky Mountains! The footer is being formed up today, the temps are going up to around 90 degrees, and it is humid.  The good news is that the room above the garage will be a space for fiber & yarn, plus the floor loom will reside there too!  Fiber is fluffy by nature and it now fills the better part of one bedroom with show set-up stuff & tents squirreled away elsewhere. It will be great to have it all in one spot with easy access and no staircase to negotiate - yay!
Yes - those are the ewes and lambs grazing in the background. They'll probably head for shade in the barn as it gets closer to noon ...
Snow White Enjoys Some Down Time In The Shade!
Here's a look at Snow White watching me skirt Dorset fleeces over the weekend on Saturday. She was relaxing in the barn away from the meddlesome lambs (!). She was the only one who chose to come in at the time. The Dorset fleeces went to a fiber festival in Wooster, Ohio on Sunday to be delivered to Zeilinger's Wool ... they will be custom processed into wool quilt batts.
We're down to only 1 queen & 1 full size quilt batt available for sale right now - yikes!

Wednesday, May 16, 2018

Fleeces For Waynesburg!

Wild Rose Farm Dorset Ewe #118 Fleece
As promised, here is a look a Dorset fleece from #118. Generally speaking, we use the Dorset wool for wool quilt batts, but they would also make a sock wool or a pillow stuffing wool - in other words, something that isn't supposed to felt.
Wild Rose Farm #129 With Twin Ram Lambs Born Today!
We also skirted a fleece from our Dorset x Rambouillet ewe #129 and it is in 4 bundles. Believe it or not, she lambed today and delivered a set of ram lambs shown above. Here is a picture of her fleece below ...
Wild Rose Farm Dorset x Rambouillet Ewe #129 Fleece
Finally today, here is a fleece pic from another of our Dorset x Rambouillet crosses, ewe #147.  Hey, maybe that's her in the background bleating. Just banging a bucket in the barn starts a cacophony of baas ... it's always feeding time if you're a sheep!
Wild Rose Farm Dorset x Rambouillet Ewe #147 Fleece

Sunday, June 12, 2016

Post Festival Post ...

Knit Buffalo Yarn Truck At Harmony Fiber Fest
Thanks to everyone who ignored the weather forecast and came out to buy at the Harmony Garden Fair & Fiber Fest!  It got HOT in the afternoon, but we didn't have any of the T-storms that were on the Saturday forecast.  Here's a great idea ... a Local Yarn Shop on wheels!  Knit Buffalo pulled in Saturday morning, unfurled their canopy, & set up in the parking lot just outside of Stewart Hall where the rest of us were set up.
Just Inside The Knit Buffalo Truck Front Steps - Yarn & Accessories
We had a chance to talk to a lot of nice fiber folks ... the quilters & spinners seemed to be out, so our combed top and wool quilt batts were a big hit. Thanks again to the shoppers who came to the festival.
At home, we got out around dusk to bring the ewes & lambs in from pasture for the evening. As usual, the lambs were frisking around & playing. The lambs like to get up to the highest spot they can, which turned out to be the wagon & the brush hog tonight ...
Wild Rose Farm Lambs Ready For A Ride!


Friday, June 10, 2016

Setting Up For Harmony Fiber Festival!

I'll post pictures later today, but Wild Rose Farm is heading off after lunch to set up for a 1 day fiber festival on Saturday. The 2016 Harmony Garden Fair & Fiber Festival will be held tomorrow June 11th in Historic Harmony, PA - rain or shine!  The fiber artists & vendors will be indoors in Stewart Hall at the Harmony Museum right in town.
Hours are from 9AM to 3PM - come see us for our fine wool naturally dyed yarn, wool quilt batts, spinning fleeces, & our Rambouillet combed top. 
http://harmonymuseum.org/Event-Details.html
Plant lovers will really enjoy the Garden Fair at the barn just outside of town ...

Saturday, December 12, 2015

Wild Rose Farm Sneak Preview At Old Economy Village - 2015 Christmas At The Village!

Old Economy Village - Feast Hall Decorated For Christmas At The Village
Wild Rose Farm will be at the 2015 Christmas At The Village this weekend at Old Economy Village along with a great diverse group of vendors. The hours are Saturday 2PM to 9PM and Sunday 2PM to 9PM. Here is a sneak preview (cell phone pics!) of a couple of vendors who were in setting up Friday afternoon.
Wild Rose Farm - Naturally Dyed Yarn, Wool Quilt Batts, Combed Top, Santa Beards
One of the vendors has a great selection of paintings, small ornaments, & primitive painted wooden cut outs. I love this reindeer scene!
Christmas At The Village - Reindeer Painting & Ornaments!
Here's an unusual booth - Clean Creek Products. They are marketing products that use metals recovered in the acid mine drainage stream clean-up process. Proceeds go back to fund additional restoration efforts and to maintain existing treatment systems. Click on the image to check out the cool pottery wildlife & fish replicas!
Christmas At The Village - Clean Creek Products - Wildlife Replicas, Pottery, & Jewelry
Who else/what else did we see setting up? Some really nice, up-to-date crocheted hats, scarfs, finger-less gloves, & whimsical figures set up in the Feast Hall hallway. Patty of Pine Knoll Herb Shop was setting up in the Rapp House, and by extension, it follows that husband Dorrin, the resident Horologist of Pine Knoll Clock Shop, will be there (!) with clocks of his own design and perhaps some restored antique clocks. Miss Kitty was setting up her packed table of jellies, jams, & spreads. Kim will be there on Saturday with her detailed punch needle art. Birgitta of All Strings Considered will be set up next to Wild Rose Farm with her hand woven rugs & place mats. Those are just the folks close to the WRF set up in the Feast Hall & Museum Building ... there were vendor tags on tables for fused glass, jewelry, baked goods, & hand made wreath bows ...

Friday, August 28, 2015

Fleece At The Hookstown Fair!

Wild Rose Farm - 1st Place Dorset Fleece At The Hookstown Fair
It's fair season again and that means taking fleeces to the Hookstown Fair.  Here is a Dorset fleece from ewe lamb #118.  I can't wait to see what her 2 year old fleece will look like next spring.  Funny thing with the fleeces is that this is the only one we had to show.  The other Dorset fleeces were processed into wool quilt batts this summer by Zeilinger Wool.  This one eluded me, likely because it was the nicest Dorset fleece we had and it was in the "spinning fleeces for sale" group!

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

New Quilt Batts & New "Sheep"!

New "Watch Sheep" 44 Finds A Package!
Long story short is that we have been watching & waiting for a Serta Sheep for about 10 years!  In late spring, my Waynesburg S&FF friend Marianne found three - yes three! - sheep for sale.  She bought 2 and told me about it.  Aaccckkkkkk, but I wanted one too!  Believe it or not, she contacted the seller again, drove in to Pittsburgh to pick it up, and even negotiated a volume discount ... :)   So #44 came to a festival meeting and then rode home shotgun with me.   Now we have a "watch sheep" keeping an eye on things, like the new kitten in the house, or the arrival of suspicious packages.
While I was at the wool pool, this package showed up and it was bursting at the seams ... hmmm, what is it?
Wow - Wool Quilt Batts - Feels Soft & Dreamy!
I have been looking for uses for our Dorset wool since we only use fine Rambouillet wool for combed top & yarn.  This is the 2nd time that we've had quilt batts made and they are for full & queen size quilts.  These are the "real deal" & they are much nicer than the small batts we had years ago.  Yea!  Hard to believe there were 6 of them smooshed into the box.   And yes, that is the technical term for processed & shipped woolens - ha!  We took them out and refolded them so that they're nice & fluffy now.
Wild Rose Farm #44 Shows Off Wool Quilt Batts! 
Yes, #44 will just be called #44.   A professor from Penn State once told me a long time ago that "if your sheep has a name, it's too fat".   Of course, we have a couple of fat sheep, but everyone goes by a number & a few have nicknames.  Like little Ewok, Alice Cooper, "U", Patches, Miss Piggy, etc.  Whoops - looks like we have more than a few with names ... ahem.