300 Sheep Farmers in a Holiday Inn
January 13, 2006
Ok, I don't know how many members showed up but I attended the Michigan Sheep Breeders Association's Shepherd's Weekend in Lansing last weekend.
I ran into Susan Pufpaff (www.yurtboutique.com) and bought some of her beautiful yellow/orange roving: 
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It was calling my name, along with a beautiful green/blue batting.
I started spinning as soon as I got back to Chicago and came up with some nice single-ply yarn from the former. 
Of course I'm still working on the box of core roving I got back from Ohio Valley Natural Fibers, they blended some of Melody Reitz's brown llama fiber with my softest wool fleece. 
It's a dream to spin and I'm sure lots of knitters would like it spun chunky but llama is way to warm (you'd sweat to death). I'm hoping to finish the lot by the end of the month and am not sure if I'm going to knit up something with it or offer the yarn for sale.