Yesterday, Maria put her Romney wool up for sale on  her blog, the yarn is $25 a skein plus shipping.  Half of it was gone in an hour or so. It is special yarn, even I can see that.

We also have some Cheviot and Border Leicester sheep wool, but this is the first time she has added the Gang Of Four, the imperious and beautiful Romneys to the wool, and it is, in fact, very different, in feel and hue. The colors are more subtle, they have a different feel and look to them.

The Romneys – I call them the Gang Of Four – were all rescues, they are beautiful sheep with very distinctive coats. They will be shorn again in the next few weeks, and then at the Fall Open House.

Maria can talk about it with more authority than I can, but this has become one of our favorite rituals – shearing, cleaning, hauling the wool to a mill in Vermont. One of the reasons we love where we live.

Maria usually sells out the yarn quickly, and if there is any left over, she will sell it at our Spring Open House, June 10-11. My guess is that there won’t be any left. You can visit her blog or e-mail her at [email protected]