Corespun Natural Stripes
Corespun yarn in natural colors (white, brown, grey) spun to create 6-8 stripes per 2 pound bump. Fiber content: 50% mohair - 50% Shetland wool
Rainbow Fiber Co-op
This fantastic group in their own words:
“is a Diné-led agricultural co-operative established to improve the financial sustainability and equitable market outcomes for the largest flocks of Dibé dits’ozí (Navajo-Churro sheep) remaining on the Navajo Nation. Our mission is to close the gap between rural Diné shepherds and an e-commerce driven marketplace for their wool. We are thrilled to announce that we have officially launched our online yarn shop!
Thanks to many generous donors we executed our first wool buy on the Navajo Nation in July 2021. We purchased approximately 3,200 pounds of Navajo-Churro wool from our shepherds. We paid a stipend for shearing help and a fair price for their wool by the pound. After skirting and sorting by color we transported the wool to Mora Valley Spinning Mill, a nonprofit community-based wool mill located in Mora, New Mexico, to produce an assortment of Navajo-style weaving yarns. In November of 2021 we began offering Diné-grown Navajo-Churro weaving yarns for sale online direct-to-customer. Sales dollars generated will be used to help fund the wool buy project again in 2022.
Most of the Navajo-Churro wool products available for sale online are from non-Diné shepherds. Diné shepherds are often told their wool is worthless or paid pennies per pound at mass wool buy events. Despite these challenges many shepherds create a market for themselves through hand spinning, weaving, and teaching weaving classes. This is difficult to do at scale and an unreliable source of income. In 2020 the pandemic brought marketing activities like farm visits, classes, art shows, and fiber events to a standstill. Several medium- to large-scale wool buys were completely canceled. These impacts have continued into 2021. We saw an opportunity to step up and do something to support these important flocks.”
Fibershed.org is helping them raise money to get their idea off the ground and their first run of yarn is now available on their website!
For more info: https://rainbowfibercoop.org/
Roving Sampler – Brights
| Description: | Hand dyed before carding. 50% Mohair, 50% Shetland Wool |
| Color: | Pumpkin Orange, Hot Pink, Lime Green, Yellow |
| Fiber Content: | Mohair: DWF’s Roberto and Ingrid Wool: Shetland, Phoenix Farm’s (WI) Cry Baby |
| Type (Processor): | Roving (Gurdy Run, PA) |
| Quantity (Pounds): | 4 oz – 1 oz of each color |
| Price: | $10/4 ounces plus shipping. |
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NJ Fibershed Fleece and Yarn Sale Nov. 15th 11AM-4PM
I’ll be helping out and selling dyed and natural roving, tops and yarn at the up-coming up event. Love to see you there!
Need fiber? Join us in celebrating and supporting our local fiber farms! Items for sale will include: fleece, yarn, spinning fiber, and other farm products from local fiber farms.
For everyone’s safety masks are required. A limited number of timed-entry tickets will be used. With purchase of a ticket, you will receive a raffle ticket for our hourly drawing for a NJ Fibershed Tote Bag containing a NJ Fibershed magnet! Must be present during hour on your ticket to win. Tickets are available up to the day of the event or until sold out. Get your tickets now!
Children under 15 years of age may enter for free.
This is an outdoors event, with field shopping and pasture parking, which may have uneven footing and/or be muddy.
Hand washing stations will be available, but no public restroom facilities on site.
Windswept Acres Sheep Farm
173 Whitebridge Road
Pittstown (Franklin Township), NJ 08867
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Nov. 15th, 2020
Tops – Late Summer Garden – Hand Painted
| Description: | Combed semi-worsted fibers. Tops are the best fiber prep you can buy as the fibers are all the same length and extremely clean, no VM. Hand painted. 67% kid mohair, 33% wool. Pic shows the 4 bundles created. Color varies slightly between bundles as they are hand painted. |
| Color: | Late Summer Garden (Blues and purples, yellow, reds) |
| Fiber Content: | Mohair: DWF’s Rose, Jasmine, Thelma Wool: Shetland, Phoenix Farms, WI |
| Type (Processor): | Semi-worsted Top (Zeilinger’s, MI) |
| Quantity (Pounds): | 3 – 2 oz. bundles (6 oz total created) |
| Price: | $10/2 ounce bundle plus shipping |
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Tops – Mid Summer Garden – Hand Painted
| Description: | Combed semi-worsted fibers. Tops are the best fiber prep you can buy as the fibers are all the same length and extremely clean, no VM. Hand painted. 67% kid mohair, 33% wool. Pic shows the 4 bundles created. Color varies slightly between bundles as they are hand painted. |
| Color: | Mid Summer Garden (Red, yellow, orange, green, blue, white) |
| Fiber Content: | Mohair: DWF’s Rose, Jasmine, Thelma Wool: Shetland, Phoenix Farms, WI |
| Type (Processor): | Semi-worsted Top (Zeilinger’s, MI) |
| Quantity (Pounds): | 4 – 2 oz. bundles (8 oz total created) |
| Price: | $10/2 ounce bundle plus shipping |
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Tops – Flames – Hand Painted
| Description: | Combed semi-worsted fibers. Tops are the best fiber prep you can buy as the fibers are all the same length and extremely clean, no VM. Hand painted. 67% kid mohair, 33% wool. Pic shows the 2 bundles created. Color varies slightly between bundles as they are hand painted. |
| Color: | Flames (Oranges, yellows, some reds and pinks) |
| Fiber Content: | Mohair: DWF’s Rose, Jasmine, Thelma Wool: Shetland, Phoenix Farms, WI |
| Type (Processor): | Semi-worsted Top (Zeilinger’s, MI) |
| Quantity (Pounds): | 2 – 2 oz. bundles (4 oz total created) |
| Price: | $10/2 ounce bundle plus shipping |
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Tops – Descent into the Blues – Hand Painted
| Description: | Combed semi-worsted fibers. Tops are the best fiber prep you can buy as the fibers are all the same length and extremely clean, no VM. Hand painted. 67% kid mohair, 33% wool. Pic shows the 4 bundles created. Color varies slightly between bundles as they are hand painted. |
| Color: | Descent into the Blues (Blues and purples, some white) |
| Fiber Content: | Mohair: DWF’s Rose, Jasmine, Thelma Wool: Shetland, Phoenix Farms, WI |
| Type (Processor): | Semi-worsted Top (Zeilinger’s, MI) |
| Quantity (Pounds): | 4 – 2 oz. bundles (8 oz total created) |
| Price: | $10/2 ounce bundle plus shipping |
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Tops – Hello Yellow – Hand Kettle Dyed
| Description: | Combed semi-worsted fibers. Tops are the best fiber prep you can buy as the fibers are all the same length and extremely clean, no VM. Hand kettle dyed. 67% kid mohair, 33% wool. Pic shows the 8 bundles created. |
| Color: | Hello Yellow (Bright yellow – green) |
| Fiber Content: | Mohair: DWF’s Rose, Jasmine, Thelma Wool: Shetland, Phoenix Farms, WI |
| Type (Processor): | Semi-worsted Top (Zeilinger’s, MI) |
| Quantity (Pounds): | 8 – 2 oz. bundles (1# total created) |
| Price: | $8/2 ounce bundle plus shipping |
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Tops – Peachy Goodness – Hand Painted
| Description: | Combed semi-worsted fibers. Tops are the best fiber prep you can buy as the fibers are all the same length and extremely clean, no VM. Hand painted. 67% kid mohair, 33% wool. Pic shows the 4 bundles created. All were dyed using the same colors but two are lighter, brighter tones (on right in pic) and two are darker (on left in pic). |
| Color: | Peachy Goodness (bright blue greens with peach fading to tan) |
| Fiber Content: | Mohair: DWF’s Rose, Jasmine, Thelma Wool: Shetland, Phoenix Farms, WI |
| Type (Processor): | Semi-worsted Top (Zeilinger’s, MI) |
| Quantity (Pounds): | 4 – 2 oz. bundles (8 oz total created) |
| Price: | $10/2 ounce bundle plus shipping |
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Roving – Eat Your Greens – Lettuce – Hand Kettle Dyed
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 Kale rolled into a ball |
 Lettuce rolled into a ball |
 Celery rolled into a ball |
 Kale unrolled |
 Lettuce unrolled |
 Celery unrolled |
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