Wednesday 1 June was Shearing day at our local inner city farm and when I saw their advertisement on Facebook I contacted them to check that they had some Guild spinners attending. As it turned out, they did not have any spinners that were free so I offered my services as I had met the shearer last year.

I just grabbed a few photos ( and a fleece) and spent the next four hours explaining to very small children and a good few adults what I was doing with the (washed fleece) on the spinning wheel.

As they only have eight sheep the shearing was spread out during the morning with time for explanations about how and why the sheep are sheared.

This is Frances? the Jacob  meeting the clippers and below is the fleece that will be my challenge next week.

Fingers crossed for dry sunny weather next week so I can get this out on the line.