It´s the third year that it´s been arranged and I have done it all three years with a friend. We have bought a lot of veggies, drank a lot of coffea and had some really good cakes. This year we ended up at a sheepfarm that I don´t recall the name of but the woolshops name was "Sjöhästen" ;seahourse.
They had three kinds of sheeps, The gotlandic from the island outside Sweden. The Leicester and an endangered called "Åsen"
The gotlandic sheep is grey and when it becames a furcoat it´s called Viking lamb and is also quite popular in decorating
This is dyed wool to be spun into yarn
You could also buy natural skins
I bought a natural white skein of Leicester/Åsen and a singular thread gotlandic thera half of it was dyed in black
To be saved for a yammy project....
and yes they sell meat too!
2 comments:
Too cool about the gotland sheep! I am still looking for some spelsau wool - I think it is also known as Icelandic. So what will you knit with the yarn you bought?
It´s only 100 grams each so it will probably be fingerless mitts or something simular.
A while ago someone made a comment on this blog and then following the name I ended up on a blog about shetlandic sheep and it was so interesting reading about them, different colors etc. I knew about shetlandic yarns before but I never thought it was more to it than some sheeps lived on the shetlandic island...
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