Tunis wool Baby Sweater

This sweater is made from 100% tunis fleece. I hand carded clean tunis wool and spun very thin single with a medium amount of twist. I plied the singles to create extremely soft 2ply baby yarn. I knitted this baby sweater using a free pattern downloaded from the internet.(the 5 hour baby sweater) I made some small changes when knitting the arms, but otherwise stuck to the pattern. The pattern included instructions for baby sizes and premie sizes. The sweater was shown at the New York State Sheep and Wool Show and placed 4th, a skein of matching wool placed 2nd. The sweater was made for a very special little boy Nathaniel Jefferson Belger that arrived into the world very early.

Malamute/Tunis wool sweater

This cabled sweater is also Kathy's from her other malamute Lucy. The sweater is an unique design just for Kathy. 2 single strands of 100% lucy hair were plied with a single strand of tunis yarn creating a balanced 3ply finished yarn. Although in pictures Lucy appears to be grey her undercoat reveiled her true color red. To match the beautiful cream color a tunis fleece was chosen. Tunis sheep are considered "red heads" they are born alburn and lighten as they age to a reddish creamy color. They retain the darked red color on their heads and legs.

Malamute/Jacob wool sweater

This sweater was created for a lovely woman named Kathy. Her malamute Buzz supplied us with over a pound of hair. The hair was blended with the wool from a jacob sheep. The resulting roving was then spun and plied to produce a sport weight yarn. This simple garter stitch sweater was knitted using two strands at the same time to achieve the required guage.

Special Dream Catcher

This Dream Catcher differs from my more traditional dream catchers. It has lavender satin ribbon woven around the ring instead of tanned leather. Several satin ribbons hang down from the conch on the left side of the dream catcher with small brass bells that emit a lovely tinkling sound when stirred by wind. Behind the conch there are ostrich feathers in natural brown and white. In the center of the conch is a blue teardrop crystal a sign of Grandfathers tears. On the top of the dream catcher is a goat skull hand painted with a lizard. The Native American animal sign for dreaming. Behind the skull are natural feathers from wild turkeys and snow geese. The web itself has fetishes and semi-precious stones woven throughout. Helping the good dreams in and leaving the bad dreams stuck in the web to be taken away by the light of day.

This dream catcher is for sale at $90.00. The stone in the conch can be replaced with an arrow head if buyer choose so. All dream catches are blessed and purified upon completion