This time I am really going to display ALL the photos I took from the area where I now live. It took several goes until I finally remembered to take the camera with me on one of my walks with Sam. It is a very beautiful and green area, and yes I have already found several farmers and hobby farmers who will be more than happy to sell their fresh fleeces to me this month, once they have started shearing. Fingers crossed I will be able to introduce some wonderful German breed handwashed fleeces and some supreme German baby alpaca fleeces , due to arrive around June. If I am happy with their quality I will certainly display photos of them here on my blog, wash and sort them and then put them out for sale in my ebayUK store and in my Etsy store ;o)  As to my regular updates of new fibres and yarns I have been sort of giving up being on time because I have been working around the clock for the past couple of weeks and moving in 6th gear!! That way I produced a lot of new drum carded batts, handpainted rovings and handspun yarns that are now all out in my online stores and on my website. So please do have a look there too, everything has come out just beautifully and yummy.

Now, here are the photos of the beautiful Rothenberg area located in the vast Odenwald in Southwest Germany. They just show an approximate 2 mile radius around the house:

The sheep above are from a neighbour, who keeps them as natural lawn mowers. The blackfaced one is indeed a beautiful Suffolk sheep (yes, they also exist over here!), and the whitefaced ones are German Merino. Of those I will be getting their wonderfully clean fleeces, hopefully some time this month.

I will be going back to my dyepot now because I am not finished with today's tasks yet....and it's already 19.00h. So let me go and do some painting!!

Everyone, HAPPY FIBRE CRAFTING!!