by OogieFarmBlog | Mar 31, 2008 | Uncategorized
Saturday was our sheep shearing day. Friday we picked up Eifion. That was the good news. The bad news was his shearing equipment in his luggage didn’t make it on the same plane he did. He tried to shear the first flock with my Lister shears and got it done but...
by OogieFarmBlog | Mar 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
This weekend is the big sheep shearing day. Saturday all the sheep get shorn and I’ll have a bunch more wool to skirt and get ready to sell. We had hoped the shop would be done so the wool can go upstairs in the new skirting area but it’s not going to...
by OogieFarmBlog | Nov 22, 2007 | Uncategorized
I’ve been working on a replica of the Monmouth cap for a while. The only extant original is in the Nelson Museum and can be seen here .My first attempt was based on several published patterns that are often referenced. One of them is here and the other is...
by OogieFarmBlog | Oct 13, 2007 | Uncategorized
Models relaxing after the sheep sweep show held over several days in western Colorado. Ewes raved at the latest designs from Oogie M at the final showing of the new fall collection of Ovine Barn Wear this week. With over 100 pieces in the new collection there was...
by OogieFarmBlog | Oct 9, 2007 | Uncategorized
I had a lovely time in Taos, didn’t come back with more wool than I took so that is good. I did find a pair of patterns for knitted dragons and bought 2 types of roving to make a knitted dragon like our logo and sign. My test sample looks pretty good so...
