Usually we show on the Friday of Black Sheep Gathering. Unfortunately I was the only Jacob breeder this year so I was bumped into sort of an All Other Breeds class on Saturday. That meant that Friday was a free day. I had books and magazines and a crochet project with me. What did I accomplish? Nothing, because everywhere I turned there were people to talk to and things to see. Sometimes its the best thing to have a break from “accomplishing” something.
![Trophies and ribbons on a table in front of the tables full of fleeces in the wool show.](https://meridianjacobs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_9813.jpg?w=1024)
The morning activities began with the wool show. I listened for awhile because there is always something to learn. The Jacob class was #12 so I decided there was time to buy a BSG t-shirt before that started.
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This has nothing to do with the t-shirts but it is what caught my eye at the t-shirt table. A women had an 8-day old kitten with her. She is feeding it every two hours.
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Back in the barn, there were vendors as well.
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The barn vendors have their booths near their pens of show sheep. I have not been a vendor because that would mean there is more organization required, more things to take, and I’d be tied down to staying there the whole time. I was having fun wandering everywhere.
![Fleeces lined up on a table while being judged.](https://meridianjacobs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_9826.jpg?w=1024)
Back to the wool show. There were 8 fleeces in the Jacob class. Four were mine. I placed first with Brady (ram), 2nd with Janna (ewe), and fourth and sixth with two others. The first two sold there. I’ll have the other two on my website.
![Jacob horn products for sale](https://meridianjacobs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_9828.jpg?w=1024)
Wandering through the vendor hall I took photos of just a few things that caught my eye. My friend, Karen of Bide a Wee Farm, came up with unique products–lamb tail keychains and ram horn earrings!
![Jacob skull for sale.](https://meridianjacobs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_9831.jpg?w=1024)
She also does a much better job with ram skulls than I do. Mine are still brown and somewhat nasty looking.
![Five wool samples from Indian sheep in small boxes with labels.](https://meridianjacobs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_9834.jpg?w=1024)
A friend from Davis is selling goods from India, including this box of wool samples from sheep I’ve never heard of.
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An Oregon sheep breeder has started producing panels for use with sheep.
![Colorful skeins of mixed yarns next to a sign that says One of a Kind Art Yarn.](https://meridianjacobs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_9838.jpg?w=1024)
I met a new vendor from my area who creates art yarn from leftovers.
![Carded fiber in rainbow order of color from red through purple in front of the drum carder.](https://meridianjacobs.blog/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_9840.jpg?w=1024)
Last but not least, it’s a rainbow batt from my friends, Roy and Henry Clemes!
Sheep Show and Spinners Lead tomorrow!