Pehlingbayfarm
Announcement
It's been a busy year and I'm finally getting new fleeces posted to our shop. This year we have our first fleeces from the offspring of our ram, Norman. Norman is of the Bluefaced Liecester breed and has brought some beautiful fleeces to our flock!
While in the barn shearing, I toss all of the belly wool for bedding and the fleeces are skirted for manure and large vegetable matter. The fleeces are then rolled up and stored in burlap bags in the cool basement. This storage keeps the lanolin soft and allows the fleece to breathe.
Most of this is wool from my own flock consisting of Bluefaced Liecester, Corriedale, and Icelandic breeds. As I increase my sheep shearing business, occasionally I come across some wonderful fleeces and I offer them here as well. I have been raising and shearing sheep here in Southern Minnesota since 2005. I have focused the breeding of my sheep to supply high quality fiber that is soft to the touch.
Announcement
It's been a busy year and I'm finally getting new fleeces posted to our shop. This year we have our first fleeces from the offspring of our ram, Norman. Norman is of the Bluefaced Liecester breed and has brought some beautiful fleeces to our flock!
While in the barn shearing, I toss all of the belly wool for bedding and the fleeces are skirted for manure and large vegetable matter. The fleeces are then rolled up and stored in burlap bags in the cool basement. This storage keeps the lanolin soft and allows the fleece to breathe.
Most of this is wool from my own flock consisting of Bluefaced Liecester, Corriedale, and Icelandic breeds. As I increase my sheep shearing business, occasionally I come across some wonderful fleeces and I offer them here as well. I have been raising and shearing sheep here in Southern Minnesota since 2005. I have focused the breeding of my sheep to supply high quality fiber that is soft to the touch.
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Alison on Feb 9, 2021
5 out of 5 starsI mixed this fleece with some merino. I like how it turned out. The fleece is soft and washed up well. It got here very fast!
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Maia on Aug 19, 2020
5 out of 5 starsAnother beautiful, soft fleece drying in the sun right now - thank you!
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Missy on Aug 19, 2020
5 out of 5 starsLove this little fleece! It is gorgeous!! Thank you so much!!
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Missy on Aug 19, 2020
5 out of 5 starsGorgeous fleece! I can’t wait to get this cleaned and on the wheel! Thank you so much!
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Anna on Aug 16, 2020
5 out of 5 starsBeautiful and just like the pictures. I ordered this this past summer and wasn't quite sure what this cross would be like, but I've fallen in love. It's curly and makes the most wonderful, shiny white yarn. It's a bit coarser than next-to skin, but only barely. It's going to make a lovely sweater, or really good socks. The fleece was very clean and well-skirted. The wool was greaser than I expected, but cleaned up beautifully and easily. It had beautiful locks too.
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Maia on Aug 6, 2020
5 out of 5 starsBeautiful, soft, and very clean fleece - love it! Shipping was extremely fast, too, thank you!
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Sherry on Jul 24, 2020
5 out of 5 starsThis was a beautiful fleece and arrived promptly. Would buy again.
About Pehlingbayfarm
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This is the drum carding machine I finished building this fall. -
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The spring wool clip. -
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My ewes in winter 2011-2012. -
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My Border Collie, Jojo is keeping things under control. -
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Our Bluefaced Liecester ram Norman at 2 years old.
Pehling Bay Farm Wool
I started working with sheep and wool in winter of 2003-2004 right after I graduated College. I got a job catching sheep for a couple of shearers in the area and I've been involved in sheep and wool ever since.
I started with a small flock of Icelandic ewes and after a few years I introduced a ram from the Corriedale breed to my flock to improve wool quality and settle the temperament of my flock. With prices for commodity wool from commercial wool buyers being quite low, I started experimenting with washing and processing wool for the artisan market.
After much trial and error, I have a shop made carding machine and a nice setup for washing, drying and carding the fiber from my flock. I have also started spinning yarn and dying wool with color fast acid dyes. These dyes hold color well with exposure to light and washing. In fall of 2017 we added a shop made felting machine to produce felt sheets that can vary in width up to 4 feet wide!
In spring of 2017 I purchased a Bluefaced Leicester and Cormo Ram to bring some new blood to our flock. We look forward to seeing the Bluefaced Leicester lambs in spring of 2018!
Prior to spring of 2017, entire process starting with lambing, shearing, washing and carding and spinning of the yarn takes place on my farm. In spring of 2017, we started utilizing the services of St.Peter Woolen Mill for the washing and carding of our fiber. The result has been a great partnership with a local business less than 15 miles from our farm! With the carded fiber from St. Peter Woolen Mill, we have been able to offer much more hand spun yarn, carded fiber and felt sheets. While I consider myself more of a farmer than a fiber artist, I great joy in producing the raw materials that others use to make garments of great beauty and warmth.
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Joe Domeier
Owner, Maker
I started working with sheep and wool in the winter of 2003-2004 while working as an apprentice to a couple of local shearers. Since then I have been raising sheep on pasture and marketing the wool to a variety of fiber artists.
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