By Karen on January 6, 2012
We just had a very fun project going on in the mill over the holidays that we wanted to share with everyone. My daughter Kristen and her husband John are building a “yurt,” or “ger” to live in. A yurt is a portable, circular wood-framed structure traditionally used by Turkic nomads on the steppe, [...]
Posted in Around the Mill, The Home Front | Tagged aerodynamic, arid, camels, central asia, cold, ecology, family, felt, felt people, fiber, ger, goats, great plains, mill, mongolia, mongolian, mountain meadow wool, nomads, plains, sheep, spin, spinning, steppe, steppes, turkic nomads, wood, wool, yak, yarn, yurt
By Karen on December 16, 2011
Mountain Meadow Wool is very proud to have partnered with Stitch Heaven, who, along with The Art of Knitting, has recently produced the amazing Stitch Heaven Salutes Barbara Walker DVD series! This awesome video tutorial features Mountain Meadow yarns, and it’s getting great reviews! Check out the sample videos and the free offerings as well.
These [...]
Posted in Yarn & Fluff | Tagged barbara walker, dvd, salutes, stitch heaven, stitch-along, the art of knitting, video
By Karen on November 20, 2011
Guess what we did today!
We are at the Wyoming Business Alliance/Wyoming Heritage Foundation’s annual business forum in Casper, Wyoming, where we were one of the 21 Wyoming companies honored this year for “succeeding in this challenging economic climate.”
We were so nervous this morning but we gave a great presentation talking about why [...]
Posted in Events & Shows, In The News | Tagged casper, governor's business forum, honor, presentation, video, wyoming, Wyoming Business Alliance, wyoming heritage foundation
By Karen on September 7, 2011
Our Limited Edition Powder River yarn and pattern collection is now available for ordering! We and the ladies of Y2Knit been working on our A Yarn Is Born project for months now, and we are so thrilled because we’ve finally got a birth announcement for you. Starting Saturday, Sept. 10, you can get your hands on [...]
Posted in Around the Mill, Yarn & Fluff | Tagged all american, alpaca, american, american made, free pattern, free yarn, limestone scarf, lys, mountain meadow wool. pre-prder, mountain merino, pattern collection, powder river, rambouillet, wolcott, wyoming, Y2knit, yarn
By Karen on August 15, 2011
You may have read the words “trace back” and “traceability “on our website and thought to yourself, “what’s that?” The wool trace back feature that Mountain Meadow Wool provides is truly unique and a boon to the great ranching history we have here in Wyoming.
Wyoming is well known for the large bands of sheep that [...]
Posted in On the Range | Tagged kid carmine ranch, mill, ranchers, scoringag.com, sheep, wool traceback, wyoming
By Karen on July 19, 2011
Valerie and I are so excited to tell you all that Mountain Meadow Wool has been selected as the recipient of a United States Department of Agriculture Small Business Innovation Research (USDA-SBIR) award! We found out several weeks ago and have been bursting to share the news. This is Phase II of an ongoing study, [...]
Posted in In The News, Sustainibility & Innovation | Tagged environmetnally friendly, grant, mill, model washing system, recipient, USDA-SBIR, washing wool, win
By Karen on April 9, 2011
This week has been super busy here at the wool mill, and as always a learning experience! We started out the week with a visit from friends from Kyrgyzstan. Aizada Imports brought a trunk show to our little burg. Gorgeous stuff and our minds were awhirl with the possibilities. I particularly love to see a [...]
Posted in Around the Mill
By Karen on January 17, 2011
Whew! We are back from sunny California and arrived at the airport last week to 10 degrees below zero! Wyoming in January!! Thankfully the Big Chill broke for us this week and we now are actually having rain – weather is always surprising here.
It was a great show for us and even though we heard [...]
Posted in Events & Shows, Yarn & Fluff | Tagged a yarn is born, california, taxi, the national needlework association, tnna, whistle, wolcott, wyoming, Y2knit
By Karen on October 26, 2010
Have you ever wondered how new yarn gets created?
This is the story of the beginnings of a great pairing and it starts with two young companies. We (Karen and Valerie) are Mountain Meadow Wool, a very young company with beautiful, locally grown merino wool yarn. We are engaged in what few others [...]
Posted in Yarn & Fluff | Tagged a yarn is born, fiber, mountain meadow wool, new yarn, wool, Y2knit
By Karen on September 27, 2010
This week we are so excited to have Jill and Susan Wolcott and their ladies (oops..sorry, we do have 2 very nice gentlemen who came to hang out with their ladies and enjoy Wyoming). Jill and Susan are the founders of Y2Knit and they design awesome patterns, knit and do these great knitting retreats. I [...]
Posted in Around the Mill | Tagged Y2knit
