Sheep to Artistry 

I raise sheep for their fiber on our 60 acre farm. We rotate our flock from pasture to pasture to allow the grasses to regenerate. In the winter when the ground is covered with snow, I feed hay, and break the ice in their stock tanks so they have water. Spring time is shearing time. The shorn fleeces are washed and combed into roving at the mill. When the roving comes back from the mill I get busy in the studio………I dye some of the roving and leave some its natural color depending on the project at hand. I always save some colorful roving to spin into yarn. The rest is used in my felting work. The following images illustrate life on the farm and in the studio.