By Val on November 7, 2011
Check out what Betabrand made out of the black fingering yarn they ordered from us! There are only 200 of these limited edition Black Sheep Hoodies available, so get one while you can! Wouldn’t this make a great Christmas present for the man in your life whose been handknitted to death? The video [...]
Posted in Yarn & Fluff | Tagged betabrand, black sheep hoodie, black wool, mountain meadow, story, wool
By Val on October 31, 2011
Have you gotten a chance to feel up our latest yarn, Mountain Fusion Teton? It is fun and popular collaboration between Mountain Colors yarn and the Mountain Meadow Wool mill in Wyoming. We thought we’d let you in on the secret behind the process of how we make this unique yarn.
Teton is a wonderfully soft, [...]
Posted in Yarn & Fluff | Tagged mountain colors, mountain colors yarn, mountain fusion, mountain merino, super bulky, teton, wool, yarn
By Val on October 14, 2011
We’re shipping out 100 pounds of black undyed wooly yarn today!
Betabrand, a very fun and quirky online clothing company from San Francisco, just ordered a large amount of black wool fingering weight yarn from us to use in designing garments. With all of the super-cool stuff they invent, we just can’t wait [...]
Posted in Yarn & Fluff | Tagged betabrand, black sheep sweater, black wool, fingering yarn, san francisco
By Val on August 23, 2011
ONGI ETORRI (ong-ee ett-or-ree)! Welcome!
This was the greeting that was heard all over the town of Buffalo the last part of July. Over 5,000 colorful, lively people from all over the United States and Europe gathered to celebrate the culture of the Basque people.
I turn into a bit of a Basque “wanna [...]
Posted in Events & Shows, Yarn & Fluff | Tagged basque, buffalo, festival, nabo, sheepherding, wool, wyoming
By Val on March 22, 2011
Today is a day of technological errors. QuickBooks, the PHONE, grrr. Now is a great day to bury myself in the soft, lovely wool. Shearing is around the corner. We have some wonderful growers and they grow primarily Rambouillet sheep. This is a breed of sheep that has a funny backstory. I am going to [...]
Posted in On the Range | Tagged france, king, merino, ram, rambouillet, shear, sheep, spain, wool, zoo
By Val on March 22, 2011
Hi all!
We feel like spring is about the show itself. The landscape has not changed much…still beige and sparkly blue skies. But there is just something in the slant of the sun promising more. The rancher near me always moves his mother-cows into a certain pasture which is on my way into town. When he [...]
Posted in On the Range | Tagged anita thatcher, belmoral farms, churro, crow heart, gotland, scottish black-face, shetland, wyoming
By Val on November 11, 2010
I have Basque jealousy. Or more like…Basque envy. I’ve admired the Basque story and the immigrants for years. Perhaps it is my own Polish Mountaineer heritage that resonates because a recent DNA search ties my Dad’s haplogroup to this culture. What ever its origin, I’ve long admired their fierce independence, strong family networks, great food [...]
Posted in Around the Mill, On the Range
By Val on August 16, 2010
Hi All! This summer has really been something! I can’t believe it has wizzed by so fast. The kids are going back to school soon and I always am sad when that happens. I guess I’m just not good with transitions.
Karen is with Kelsey in Laramie getting her settled into her new apartment. My daughter [...]
Posted in The Home Front, Yarn & Fluff
By Val on April 15, 2010
Happy 2009 to all of you! Thanks for checking in with us. We’ve been busy little bees here at the wool mill. It seems that life is just flying on by, but it is funny how everything that HAS TO get done seems to get done.
The Fall of the year began with [...]
Posted in Around the Mill | Tagged billings gazette, camino, Gov. Dave Freudenthal, governor's tour, KID Ranch, lincoln, mountain meadow wool, mountain state lamb co-op, processing, ryan fieldgrove, san diego, sheep, tnna, valerie spanos, wool, wyoming
