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WELCOME SPINNERS, TO THE HANDSPINNING FLEECES MAIN PAGE!

Click the link below to view closeup photos
& detailed descriptions of all our natural-colored and white fleeces.



OUR FLEECES . . .

See the Spinning Fleeces and Photos page for closeup photos and detailed descriptions of every fleece. Here you can also read what our customers are saying about SkyLines fleeces.

OUR READY-TO-SPIN ROVING . . .

Purchase white & natural-colored roving from wool grown by SkyLines own pampered sheep.
See all the roving details including photos, descriptions, pricing & ordering info. (Also see photos of award-winning yarns spun from SkyLines roving.)



ONE OF MY FAVORITE FLEECES, from a special ewe Stella, on the hoof . . .

Stella as a yearling in her first fleece

 


Have a look at
FLEECE MANAGEMENT
to learn how we keep our fleeces so clean.

. . . and freshly shorn, ready for sale.

Stella's second fleece

Stella's third fleece

New to Wool?
A FLEECE is a year's worth of wool growth (sometimes less) which has been carefully cut off the sheep using hand or electric shears. SkyLines sheep are shorn once a year, about a month before lambing begins in early spring.

ROVING is the term for raw wool that has been washed and carded (a combing-like process), and that is now ready for spinning into yarn for knitting, crocheting, weaving, or other crafts. Every year, some of SkyLines' fleeces are sent to a processor to be made into smooth, lustrous, ready-to-spin roving. To view photos and details, and to purchase SkyLines roving, go to Prepared Fibers.

A VARIEGATED fleece is a natural-colored fleece containing several different colors or shades, rather than being simply a solid grey. All of the SkyLines natural-colored fleeces are variegated, with one fleece containing a variety of colors like oatmeal, soft dove grey, silver, medium grey or dark charcoal grey, and these fleeces often include some black as well.

This range of colors in one fleece allows you to create subtle, interesting, one-of-a-kind yarns. Also, if you sort the colors into separate batches, a variegated fleece is a great way to get different colors of wool without having to purchase numerous individual fleeces.


 

 

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SkyLines Farm 4551 Highway 6 Harvard, ID 83834 208.875.8747
Purebred Romney & Romney-Cross Sheep