Mikelswool’s Weblog

On Tuesday morning I took 6 fleeces of mine to GOODKARMA, they will process my wool for me. I was so impressed with their mill.  I took a tour and got to see how everything works. It is amazing when you take wool to a mill and even if you process some of your own wool like I do, it is nice to see the different ways they do it. I will have my wool back in 6-8 weeks. I cant wait. We will be putting the yarn in our store for sale. The skeins will be in 4oz skeins with 200 yards in each. gauge 3 stiches per inch with size 9 needle.

Some of the wool is black and grey which will all be blended together. Then there is natural oatmeal color. Some of that will be dyed and the rest I will keep its natural color. I even took some brown which I may keep for myself. This brown has 3 different shades in it. I would like to make a sweater for myself out of it. It is from one sheep and three shearing. Who knows maybe there will be plenty for a sweater and to share. We will see in 6-8 weeks.

It is funny when I get a phone call or if I am at the shop working and people will say “this use to be a old ice cream shoppe” and ask me “are you turning it back into one, ” I just laugh, some people do not like change, and some can not except change. I am sorry. we will not be selling ice cream out of the shop. We will be selling wool, yarn and other things to keep you and your family warm during the cold winter months.  I like ice cream too, just not enough to sell it.  And an ice cream shoppe would not be possible for me, my husband eats ice cream all the time. A big bowl every night. We would lose money. ( Lot’s of money.)

MIKELSWOOL  was named because my husbands name is Mike and mine is Kelly. The Mi came from Mike and the KEL came from Kelly, people have asked why I named it MIKELSWOOL. 

Well I am off to play with some wool, its a nice day for dyeing wool and washing a fleece or two. And then spin some wool.

Have a GREAT DAY EVERYONE.

Well my day started at 2:00 a.m. I started off with a cup of coffee and knitting needles. Then made my way back to the kitchen to make 4 loaves of oatmeal bread. (came out oh so good by the way) then back to coffee and knitting needles. At 5:30 I was out to feed 16 sheep and 40 turkeys. My horses are are another farm up the road, (They will need to stay there until after they give birth.) I will go see them later on today. I washed 1 fleece, that is outside drying. (cant wait to play with that) Then did some packing up of stuff for the store. Which is where I am off to after a while. Things are coming together quit nicely. I so cant wait to open my doors to the public. It has been a dream of mine for a while now to have my own little business somewhere. It is true what they say” dreams do come true”  Well off to fill water buckets then go to my shop to finish setting up somethings. Have a great day all.

Well we had hoped that we would be opening on this Saturday, however we can’t. We still have so much to do. So as of right now it looks like it will be around the 26Th of August. It is only a couple more week’s. This will give us time to finish our stocking shelves and putting all of the final touches we want on the shop.  our shop now has a address that we can use it is 793 US RT 1, Woolwich Maine, 04579, And our new telephone number is (207)443-5137. The phone will be hocked up next week on Tuesday. I hope you all will find this store helpful, and if not useful. I know i am very excited about it.

Spring Babies have gotten so big. This is Justin and Bethany. They are Blossom and Noah’s twins. I decided to keep all of this years babies. We had 9 lambs this spring. These 2 guy’s have a beautiful soft wool. They are Shetlands, both mom and dad are Shetlands as well. I can’t wait for them to be sheared next week. I want to play with their wool. I think I will keep this years wool a natural color, unless someone ask me to dye it for them. I will post more photo;s of the other babies soon.

Well we are very busy getting ready for the store’s grand opening. Our store will be ready to open on  route one in Woolwich Maine by next Saturday. We will have so many different things to choice from, Although we will be adding more stuff daily until we are happy with the amount and what we have for product’s. Please feel free to stop by, shop or just lurk at what we have to offer. I am very excited to finally be opening this store. I have been waiting for a long time. We have Slipper’s Sweater’s, Mittens, Hats, Scarves, Blanket or two, Shawls, Hand Bags, Knitting Bag’s, Yarns, and wool. And plan on have more in the near future. We will be adding a knit group, maybe a spinning group. We may even have some classes. I am pretty busy trying to line all that stuff up. So just check back often for I will be updating often.