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1.After an appropriate mourning period for my beloved lipstick- R.I.P. Laura Mercier Just Lips- I have finally found a (possibly) suitable replacement in Stila’s Rendezvous.

2.Wanna win some Wollmeise? Lesleyluu from Ravelry is holding raffle on her blog to raise money for a friend’s IVF treatment. What a great friend, right? A $5 donation gets up a chance to win the Wollmeise and several other great prizes, so enter early and enter often.

3.I have been remiss. Remiss, remiss, remiss. I’m way behind on my blogging and I’ve neglected to write about a couple of awesome gifts I received from shareholders. My mama raised me better than that and I apologize. Tune in tomorrow for the full mea culpa.

4.We have drop spindles!! Beautiful, hand-carved, one-of-a-kind drop spindles, created just for us by Michael J. Sturtevant Fine Woodcrafts.

These spindles are so lovely that I don’t even know if I can part with them. Never mind. Forget I said anything. Just kidding! This week only all spindle orders will come with a little fiber to inaugurate it.

5. Check out this awesome chicken video that Lauria found.

Thanks Cat and Eric!

I went over to the farm today thinking I would get some pictures of the garden and put together a fabulous update for you guys, but Sicily had other plans…she went into labor. So instead of a garden update, I have video of the birth of Sicily’s son, Colorado.
Colorado is a huge baby, and Sicily needed a little help getting him out. At the start of the birth, I was holding Sicily while Erin guided the baby out, so the first part of the birth is missing from the video.
Erin did a fantastic job, and Sicily and Colorado are both in great shape! Sicily is such a devoted mom–after Colorado was born, she licked him so intensely she was pushing him across the birthing pen, and he started to go right out under the lower fence rung! (Erin retrieved him.)
Colorado had a little moment of panic the first time Erin left the birthing pen, and he tried to follow her–I think he is a little confused as to who Mom is…

Colorado is born from Linda Campbell on Vimeo.

Colorado stands up from Linda Campbell on Vimeo.

Last weekend Erin and I made the eleventy million mile trip to drop our fleeces off at the mill on Prince Edward Island.

It’s very difficult to capture what the mill is like in photographs or even in video. The machinery is enormous, very loud and quite old- most of it from the late 1800s. It’s all very mechanical, in a sort of H.G. Wells’ The Time Machine kind of way. 

Weighing the incoming fleeces.

This is Dale. His family has owned this mill since the 18-somethings.

I love all the old fashion equipment. No digital scale here!

The receiving area was full of fleeces coming in in all kinds of bags and boxes.

Erin is sitting here so you can see the scale. That is a mountain of fleece!

Dyed wool. The mill does custom dyeing but only in 300 pound lots of a single color.

Last time Erin and I visited the mill they were washing wool. The equipment wasn’t on on this trip but it’s still pretty interesting to see.

The yarn goes through the picker to be opened up and is blown into this room. The pile of fiber in this shot was taller than me.

After the picker, the fiber goes into this massive carder. MacAusland cards all the fiber into pencil roving. (See the video below to watch the carder in action.)

Bolts of pencil roving ready for spinning are everywhere.

The bolts of roving are put on the spinning machine here. The yarn is being spun onto the cones.

It was really neat watching the yarn wind it’s way up the cones.

Once the yarn is spun it’s put onto the ply-er. 

The plied yarn is wound onto cones.

Finished yarn.

I have know idea what this machine does but it was cool as all get out.

I love these big bins full of spindles. 

The mill also weaves 100% wool blankets (we’re having them make some for us from farm-bought fleeces)

I know nothing about weaving but it sure looks cool. I’m mostly posting these pics for Jean and Joan who do know about weaving.

Each blanket is finished by hand.

If I haven’t already bored you half to death check out the video below, shot by Erin and edited by Harry.

Let me start by saying that I HATE watching myself on camera. Hate it like poison. Hate it like Nazis. Hate it like that nasty fake buttercream made with Crisco (which was on my wedding cupcakes!!!!)

BUT I am going  to share the spectacular video that Cat and Eric from Let’s Knit2gether made at our Shearing Celebration. Because I want those of you who were not able to attend to see it. AND because Cat and Eric were absolutely lovely people who took time out of their very full and busy lives to come to our party. AND because some of you will get to see yourselves in the video. AND because Jeff Traver, our shearer deserves the spotlight he gets in the video.

So, against my better judgement and every instinct for self-preservation that I posses, I am posting the first of two episodes of Let’s Knit2gether at the Fiber Farm. (You can click on the little tv screen icon to watch the video larger.)

Much love to Cat and Eric for allowing us to share this with you! If you’ve never watched their video podcast you are really missing something. I worked in network news for ten years and I know good production when I see it. A whole lot of work goes into these things. Most podcasts making me cringe- Cat and Eric are pros and make it look easy.