Archive for March, 2007
26 Mar
Lambs!
Saturday, Tom and I got home from the store to find one of our border leicester ewes with twins, one girl and one boy. Hmmm…there’s only one ram who could be the father: good ol’ Padriac, our shetland ram who has a penchant for jumping fences! He jumped the fence in with the girls a [...]
20 Mar
Last but not least, fleece and rovings!
It is the week before shearing for Sue, the week after for Betty. This year’s fleeces have yet to be brought into the store. This year’s rovings haven’t even been sent to the processor yet. But we still have a decent supply from last year. Once the new ones come in, there won’t be much [...]
20 Mar
More Store Photos!
While waiting for us to figure out how to load Tom’s photos of their sheep onto the site, I will post some photos of the store: Here is Henry, the store dog.
19 Mar
Shearing, lambing, and fleece, fleece, fleece!
Hodge Podge is not only a store full of fleece and yarn and books and knitted goods. Sue lives 2 blocks from the store, and with her husband, Tom, own 80 kazillion sheep…well, maybe that’s exaggerated a bit: actually, they have 56 sheep, about 30 of whom are pregnant, expecting lambs sometime between 3/25-4/15. There [...]
1 Mar
The Main Aisle of Hodgepodge Yarns and Fibers
Here’s the main aisle of the store, complete with new boxes of yarn that just arrived, waiting to be put away. It seems like every day there are new spinning wheels, new yarn, new books, new buttons, new fleeces, or new rovings coming in which need to be put away. Big as the store is, [...]
1 Mar
A basket of the new Malabrigo Merino yarns
Here’s some skeins of the new 100% wool merino yarns I mentioned yesterday. I want to knit something with the blue/green combination in the front right. Deb likes the one with the rose and browns. Linda likes the light and dark green ones. Looks like this will be popular stuff.
