From sheep to yarn: caring for the animal, shearing, skirting, scouring, carding, dyeing, spinning, and plying, in this case with Walter’s CVM wool to a curly spiral ply yarn. So many steps, and each one full of its own rhythm and learning curve. If you’ve ever dreamed of raising fiber animals and making yarn from your own flock, I’ve finally put all the steps into one place. Check out Barn to Yarn in my bio.💗 | Cedar Hill Fiber Farm

Even more behind the scenes of our fiber stash - the raw fleeces! While most of the fleeces from shearing are processed quickly, there are always a few that I don’t get to for various reasons and they eventually build up. Sometimes it is because they aren’t as high quality: lots of vegetable matter, the animal was sick during the year, or a short staple length, or some like Agnes’s fleece that take a longer time to scour, requiring me to devote more time to them. Because we will have an influx o