For me, the only thing more exciting than waiting for lambs to arrive is waiting for the arrival of freshly spun skeins and carded roving from the fiber mill. I picked up the first of my spring yarns at the spinnery this week. This yarn run has been in the queue at Green Mountain Spinnery since the end of last year. In February the newly shorn fleeces from my Cormo-cross yearlings joined my late autumn wool clip at the mill to produce boxes of glowing skeins (now stacked floor to ceiling in the studio).

For me, the timing is a bonus. Although I still have mountains of Cormo to skirt (I call the stack of wool bags in the studio Mount Cormo!) I can get started on readying product for my spring shows. For members of Sheep Shares, my new farm yarn & fiber club, this means your spring share may actually be on its way before my first lambs drop here at the farm.

Here's a peek at the yarn along the way. Once I've skirted and boxed the fleeces from shearing day, I stuff as much wool as I can possibly fit into the back of my Toyota Highlander and truck it up to the spinnery in Putney, Vermont. At the mill, Dave Ritchie and I weigh the incoming fiber and discuss the plan of action for the yarn run.