Maria and I went to the Southern Adirondack Fiber Festival this afternoon, we were especially interested in the wool, the yarn, the Romney sheep. I loved this wise old girl, Romney’s have some remarkable facial expressions. We are taking fiber more seriously since we got the Gang Of Four.

We were comparing the wool on Griselle, Biddy, Rosemary and Izzy and we are excited about it’s color, depth and texture. Fiber arts are playing a larger role at our Open House in October, Maria has invited two spinners to come and work under a tent using our wool to make gloves and other things. Our shearer is coming to shear the Romney’s, it seems at least two of them have not bee shorn in several years.

A lot of blog readers were there and came up and said hello, the trip had a kind of family feeling to it. We learned a lot, and we are paying attention.