NOBO Handweavers

Please consider giving one or more beautiful spinners fleece sheep a home. They are from Lydia Grew’s original flock, her son Joe sold them on and now that owner is liquidating (- her entire 100+ acre farm in Topsfield!).

SO, one moorit-y brown Romney, 3 other white Romneys, all ewes, about 8 years, past breeding safely, but with all teeth, in good health. The man who has them now in Topsfield has said it’s off to the butcher with them next Tuesday, and he’s looking for about $100 apiece (=what he can get in meat for them). You are welcome to visit them in Topsfield, take one or all, they have years of excellent fleeces to come if you can take them. Myself or Joe is happy to discuss how easy sheep ownership is. Please contact Joe at josephgrew@yahoo.com (cell=720-254-7366)to connect with seller.
I have spun Lydia’s fleeces for years, they are truly excellent – I can even show you roving I have from one of last year’s rams. (If i hadn’t just taken in two needy alpacas…..)

Thank You!!
Meredith

Our guest speaker this month is Roben Campbell. Roben will be doing a presentation on Shaker Textiles. If any member has anything Shaker, please bring to meeting for Show and Share.

The business meeting will include – a discussion about the Fibershed project ( see Melissa’s post of Aug 25 on the NOBO website or go to http://fibershed.wordpress.com/about/ for more info). Also, we’d like to discuss an updated NOBO flyer and identify any members who raise fiber animals.

See you Thursday!

I do believe I have a young weaver in the making.
Our grandson, Luca, loves playing in Grammy’s fiber studio!

The NH Humanities Council is offering a free lecture next Tuesday night, 9/20, at 7 PM in the Plaistow Library. It’s titled “The great Sheep Boom and Its Enduring Legacy on the NH Landscape”. It’s an excellent lecture, given by Steve Taylor. We heard it at NHWG.
Enjoy!

This farmer loves his sheep!

I just saw this ad and thought some of you might be interested. Of course it’s not the same as handling the fabrics, but it might still be useful:

Digital Magic in the Water; wet finishing handwovens
Posted by: “Laura” laura@laurafry.com laurafry2001
Tue Sep 6, 2011 10:48 pm (PDT)

Labouring on Labour Day – Magic in the Water; wet finishing handwovens is now available as a 4 MB download pdf file. Just $25.00 Cdn, payment by Paypal. http://laurafry.com Click on Store, then On Magic Digital and scroll down for Paypal options. The file will be available on cd shortly; file download can be done immediately. You just need to be able to receive a 4 MB file via an email attachment.

cheers,
Laura Fry

http://laurafry.com

http://laurasloom.blogspot.com

Note: this ad was on a Yahoo group I just discovered, called “WeavingSalesAds”. It takes the moderator a few days to put people on – be patient:-)