I look forward to each of your episodes. Your enthusiasm for what you are doing at the mill is infectious and inspiring. Was fun to see Tammy on the mill cast. Peggy, your self-drafted reddish/orangish sweater looks like it’s going to be so cozy. Amanda, hopefully by now you and Maeve have made your adjustment to her childcare change. Take care and thank you again for sharing your work and friendship with us.
You guys are such amazing people, and particularly amazing as presenters together. So real. So interesting. So in sync with one another. You have just become my absolute favorite UA-camrs. I’m going to plan a trip your way perhaps in the summer or fall. ❤️
Oh this city-girl-sheep-farmer-wannabe is so living vicariously through you two! Thanks for showing part of the shearing, I am mesmerized by the shearer's skills. Please continue to show us your fleeces through the spinning process too. I love Tammy. I recently got to meet her during a natural dyeing class. What an amazing human, kind and generous with her skills.
What a wonderful podcast! Good luck to you Amanda for Maeve’s daycare adventure. I am a kindergarten teacher. I remember when my own son went to daycare in Italy at age 12 months❤️.Peggy you will like Jagger in Maine, I visited them last year too.
I accumulated a fair amount of knitting projects that needed to be finished….whip stitch steek panels, weaving in ends, Kitchener stitch a cowl, sew on buttons and so on. Soooo I have been binge watching your mill cast! 30 minutes or so is just enough time to knock down my finishing pile. Very, very interesting and informative. Amanda and Peg you both make a great team! Keep up the good work.
I also have that ancient Seamless Raglans booklet (I'm in my 70s)! I still wear a tweedy cardigan I knit in the 80s from it. You two are so authentic and spectacular and warm. I love how you appreciate the rare and deep relationship that developed from scary and difficult circumstances. I'm so looking forward to Dinie's visit (from New Zealand) with you later this month. This community is wide and wonderful....many thanks for your contributions to it.
Hi Ladies!! Love your millcast! The shearing was amazing to watch... Steady hands is a must there!! Loved the fleeces you showed too! Wow such a joy to spin those fleeces..nothing like it! Lil Maeve is growing up ...she is a Doll face 😍. Hope she had a great time at her new daycare! Peg, the sweater and yarn are just amazingly beautiful 🎉! Ragland sweaters are always a staple in my wardrobe ❤. I know the excitement of new windows 😅 We just renewed our house windows last summer too. Its the best investment we ever made!! Wondering about recipe for Dolly bunt cake 😅. Thank you for sharing all! Someday I hope to come see your mill! I Live in Tennessee
So lovely to see you both this morning! I've had Corriedale sheep for over fifty years, but I've scaled back now and just have three, so seeing your flocks, especially the shearing is a real joy! Thank you
When you say 3 ply for your wool, do you mean 3 singles or 3 ply as fingering yarn? Chronic shortage of shearers here. After the floods it rained, so many sheep died from foot rot standing in flood waters and lice infestation and lack of shearers. We helped friends dip those 2400 sheep. I was the sheep dog. Exhausting moving them from the paddocks to each enclosure in batches to ready for dipping. ( Im 66) The sheep dog had retired. It took 2 days with 4 of us.
Wow. Lack of shearers. Not sure how you solve that easily. And the disaster that follows flooding. Thanks for all this info. As for the plying, yes by 3 ply we mean twisting 3 singles into a strand which could be light or heavy. Our equipment can't do fingering weight yarn. Most of our 3 ply is between DK and Aran weight.
Did I miss the posting of Dolly's (?) coffee cake recipe? I like to hear about the different types of wool, their qualitites and how you experiment to improve the yarn you make.
@@junctionfibermill I figured as much. Makes sense. Not that there aren't enough fleeces out there in the world. And not like I really don't need another fleece... :-)
Hi Melanie, Peg and her husband Todd do sell ewe lambs. They have about four folks interested in this year's lambs. She's happy to put you on the list. Where are you located? Might be best to email her at Peggy@junctionfibermill.com
It's always a delight to see your Millcast pop up in my notifications! Thank you, Ladies!
Maggie, you are most welcome!
Such a pleasure to watch you! Enjoyed the sheep shearing so much!
Love watching the shearing, she is so efficient! Thanks for sharing all of the wooly goodness 😍
I look forward to each of your episodes. Your enthusiasm for what you are doing at the mill is infectious and inspiring. Was fun to see Tammy on the mill cast. Peggy, your self-drafted reddish/orangish sweater looks like it’s going to be so cozy. Amanda, hopefully by now you and Maeve have made your adjustment to her childcare change. Take care and thank you again for sharing your work and friendship with us.
Thank you very much!
That rust color is gorgeous! Excited that you might add Rambouillet!
So excited to here you’ll be in Maine, even if not for a show :-) I absolutely love all passion and creativity in New England fiber ❤
Another great podcast. I am always excited to hear what is going on in the mill. You ladies are super special!
ah, thank you so much!
You guys are such amazing people, and particularly amazing as presenters together. So real. So interesting. So in sync with one another. You have just become my absolute favorite UA-camrs. I’m going to plan a trip your way perhaps in the summer or fall. ❤️
Carolyn, thanks so much for all the kind words. We look forward to meeting you in person when you make the trip!
Oh this city-girl-sheep-farmer-wannabe is so living vicariously through you two! Thanks for showing part of the shearing, I am mesmerized by the shearer's skills. Please continue to show us your fleeces through the spinning process too. I love Tammy. I recently got to meet her during a natural dyeing class. What an amazing human, kind and generous with her skills.
So glad you have met Tammy. She is one of a kind. Come up from the city for a visit some time!
@@junctionfibermill I am hoping maybe to get to your April open house!
What a wonderful podcast! Good luck to you Amanda for Maeve’s daycare adventure. I am a kindergarten teacher. I remember when my own son went to daycare in Italy at age 12 months❤️.Peggy you will like Jagger in Maine, I visited them last year too.
I accumulated a fair amount of knitting projects that needed to be finished….whip stitch steek panels, weaving in ends, Kitchener stitch a cowl, sew on buttons and so on. Soooo I have been binge watching your mill cast! 30 minutes or so is just enough time to knock down my finishing pile. Very, very interesting and informative. Amanda and Peg you both make a great team! Keep up the good work.
Kathy, we're glad we helped you get through your knitting!
And my favorite yarn from Tammy is Mother Nature, the thinner clun forest.
Exciting times, shearing & lambing 🎉 look forward to seeing the lambs. Peggy’s jumper & colour 😊. Happy times 🧶🙏🏻🇬🇧
Thank-you for mentioning The Calgary Chicks With Stix Group! 383 members strong and meeting in 3 locations!
We love that!!
Ohh my Peggy, that WIP sweater, (saffron) is stunning
Thanks! Lots of knitting to go.
I also have that ancient Seamless Raglans booklet (I'm in my 70s)! I still wear a tweedy cardigan I knit in the 80s from it. You two are so authentic and spectacular and warm. I love how you appreciate the rare and deep relationship that developed from scary and difficult circumstances. I'm so looking forward to Dinie's visit (from New Zealand) with you later this month. This community is wide and wonderful....many thanks for your contributions to it.
Thanks for all the kind words! Much appreciated.
I just got some of Tammy's cormo roving. It's so lovely. You did a great job!
Thank you! 😊
Hi Ladies!!
Love your millcast! The shearing was amazing to watch... Steady hands is a must there!! Loved the fleeces you showed too! Wow such a joy to spin those fleeces..nothing like it!
Lil Maeve is growing up ...she is a Doll face 😍. Hope she had a great time at her new daycare!
Peg, the sweater and yarn are just amazingly beautiful 🎉! Ragland sweaters are always a staple in my wardrobe ❤.
I know the excitement of new windows 😅
We just renewed our house windows last summer too. Its the best investment we ever made!!
Wondering about recipe for Dolly bunt cake 😅.
Thank you for sharing all! Someday I hope to come see your mill! I Live in Tennessee
We hope you can make a visit too!
Lani's Lana's Rambouillet!!! I've spun her wool (by hand); purchasing roving from her. It's lovely!!! Interesting that she sends some of it to Maine.
Enjoyed your flosstube. I have been to Jagger mills for a tour (I,m a knitter living in Scarborough) and it was so interesting. Have fun.😊
We'll be reporting back on the Jagger mill !
So lovely to see you both this morning! I've had Corriedale sheep for over fifty years, but I've scaled back now and just have three, so seeing your flocks, especially the shearing is a real joy! Thank you
I have that book too!
A wealth of information in one short (compared to so many others who podcast) episode. Enjoying every minute!
Ann, that's just because we talk too fast! LOL
Hej from Denmark, I have just seen (Again) Cabin Boy Knits, (charming guys) interview you in their sektion on UA-cam. 👍 (Sorry my english)
Cool, thanks!
Breed of your sheep? Ooops. Never mind. (Keep listening, Jillaine...) Corriedale.
Too funny. Yup, Corriedale!
When you say 3 ply for your wool, do you mean 3 singles or 3 ply as fingering yarn? Chronic shortage of shearers here. After the floods it rained, so many sheep died from foot rot standing in flood waters and lice infestation and lack of shearers. We helped friends dip those 2400 sheep. I was the sheep dog. Exhausting moving them from the paddocks to each enclosure in batches to ready for dipping. ( Im 66) The sheep dog had retired. It took 2 days with 4 of us.
Wow. Lack of shearers. Not sure how you solve that easily. And the disaster that follows flooding. Thanks for all this info. As for the plying, yes by 3 ply we mean twisting 3 singles into a strand which could be light or heavy. Our equipment can't do fingering weight yarn. Most of our 3 ply is between DK and Aran weight.
Did I miss the posting of Dolly's (?) coffee cake recipe? I like to hear about the different types of wool, their qualitites and how you experiment to improve the yarn you make.
Coming soon! Peg just needs to get her sister to hand it over!
@@junctionfibermill Her sister will make Dolly famous if she does! hahah
Do you reserve any of your shorn fleeces for hand spinners or does it all go to the mill? :-)
Peg no longer sets fleece aside for handspinners. She had to pick a "lane" and she decided on yarn!
@@junctionfibermill I figured as much. Makes sense. Not that there aren't enough fleeces out there in the world. And not like I really don't need another fleece... :-)
@treehouse20817 you can never have too many fleece!
Do you sell your lambs? I have 2 Romney, 1 corriedale (my original) and three romnedale cvm. I am looking for another corrie.
Hi Melanie, Peg and her husband Todd do sell ewe lambs. They have about four folks interested in this year's lambs. She's happy to put you on the list. Where are you located? Might be best to email her at Peggy@junctionfibermill.com
@@junctionfibermill thanks amanda! i'm in upstate ny,near syracuse, Ithaca to be exact.