Bluefaced Leicester (true love)

I really like that Rowan has come out with the British Sheep Breeds yarns. As I have been debating over which shades and how much to purchase, it started seeming more important to me that I find a smaller source- surely a small spinnery or homespinner has been making natural fleeces into yarn for a while. A quick hop over to Bartlett Yarns showed their Fisherman yarns are available in undyed colors (I naturally had to purchase a few skeins- with colors like "light grey sheeps wool" how could I resist?). And etsy had a lovely Ramboullet worsted handspun as well as a bluefaced Leicester. Aren't they pretty sheep?


The Bluefaced Leiscester Breeders Association (photo above) has a chunk of interesting information about the breed.

Not losing my mind because my new job is so much less stressful allows for a lot of time spent thinking about things: sheep, farms, country air, how much I hate living in the city, how much I want to move to a less populated area, cows, more cows, winter... And lots of time checking this website.