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Out of a flock of several thousand sheep, a special breeding programme is taking place to produce wonderful Maniototo Wool It’s the end of May. If all has gone as planned the Romney ewes are now “in lamb” and will spend the winter getting on with their pregnancy. The Merino rams are removed and returned …
It is February and we are well into 2016, so time for an overdue update. It is now 5 months since shearing, and most of this season’s wool is processed. We are SO EXCITED to have a new product – Luxury Lambswool – a semi-worsted DK yarn made from very carefully selected fleeces from prize …
I’ve made this fun hat three times in our Aran style Maniototo Wool. The first was this one modelled by Finley. The main colour used was “Ram Paddock Green”. The contrast was a one-off random dyed sample colour. Maniototo Wool Hat This adult beanie with ridges is a useful and practical winter hat. You …
The 2014 carded sliver has arrived. Wow it is gorgeous, and the dyeing has begun in time for New Year marketing. Looking forward to spinning some of this lusciousness.
The marvellous wool clip for 2014 is being made into yarn. Today we visited Graham and Jacqui at Wild Earth Yarns in Christchurch where Maniototo Wool is being processed into the new season’s yarns. The scoured wool is weighed….. Then it goes through the carder…..looking like a fine cobweb which becomes a sheet of wool….and then splits …
Christmas is coming and we are sending Maniototo Wool to the world. Today some hanks of undyed yarn are heading for Australia, and a parcel of “Wintery Blue” is being packaged ready to go to Portugal. Even though we haven’t mentioned it on our order page, we are happy to receive orders for undyed wool …
Maniototo Wool now has a new home in Geraldine, South Canterbury – much closer to where our woolly producers are farmed, and also closer to our processors. In September, we drove down to the farm in the Magnificent Maniototo to select the newly shorn fleeces for our new season’s yarn and sliver. Wow! it is …
The Mapua Makers Market is on Sunday 1st June, and we are delighted to be bringing Maniototo Wool to it – the first market we have attended in the Nelson area where our wool is designed and produced. I’ve hand dyed some colourful skeins as a one-off batch specially for the market. One squishy skein …
Maniototo wool has been duly launched in its home territory at the Ranfurly A and P show. The Maniototo region lived up to its reputation of having very hot very dry summers. I sat under a willow tree to catch a breeze and knit a baby hat. Here is Darcy aged 9 months wearing the …
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