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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 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 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 [...]
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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 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
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
By admin on March 30, 2010
We are very excited about our new blog!
Greetings Everyone!! We are coming into the new world of blogging and boy are we newbies! Be patient with us. So much to tell…so little time!
NEW LAMBS!
Where to begin? Well I know it isn’t yarn related, but….I just got a call that two bum lambs needed a home. [...]
Posted in Around the Mill, On the Range | Tagged lambs, scouring train, wool mill, wool washing, yarn
By Karen on July 19, 2009
There has been lots of activity at Mountain Meadow Wool these past few months. Val and I have been traveling to trade shows and our yarn is getting some great exposure. We have some amazing quotes: one from our Wyoming governor, Gov. Dave Freudenthal, who when asked about his [...]
Posted in Around the Mill, Yarn & Fluff | Tagged cat bordhi, Dave Freudenthal, fiber camp, innovation, kansas, koo-aid, mountain meadow wool, new mexico, research, small business, usda sbir program, yarn