It’s been over two months since the last newsletter (through the website, not this blog) and I have too many items to share in the newsletter I need to write. I think it makes more sense to write a blog post and link to that. It’s important for me to get a newsletter out before Lambtown in Dixon which is a week away. Besides there are other things I want to share here.

Last Saturday was Open Farm Days in Pleasants Valley, just north of Vacaville. Seven farms were open and some hosted other vendors. I was at Brazelton Ranch.

I will have all these things and more at Lambtown. I have twenty new sheepskins back from the tannery. I will have the 2026 roving after I pick it up from the mill next week. I also plan to package up more dye flowers.

I will have handwoven blankets, towels, shawls, and scarves with me.

I have been dyeing and I’ll have those yarns and more at Lambtown. This will be the last of the 2025 Timm Ranch yarn and caps and I’m not sure when the 2026 yarn will be finished.

Speaking of Timm Ranch yarn, a visitor came to the farm and bought yarn a few days before this event. She came to this farm on Saturday and showed me the headband she had knitted. Isn’t it beautiful?

Speaking of headbands–that could be to keep your ears warm or to hold your hair in place. That makes me think of these horn rings I make from the Jacob horns. I label them as shawl pins, but maybe if I had long hair one of these would work for that too. I will have a whole new batch for Lambtown.

Other horn products are the buttons and skulls.

Here is a new product. I have been dyeing bandanas and will have about forty with me. What fun! They are listed on the website. I should do a blog post of all the ways a bandana could be useful in your life.

This space was near mine. There were eight painting students. They started with a lesson in preparing the background on the canvas and were guided through the color of the sky before I took this photo.

I got a kick out of looking over occasionally and seeing mountains…and then later, trees. It turns out that the teacher is a Bob Ross, Inc certified instructor who lives just up the road and leads painting parties and gives lessons. I remember Boss Ross from the PBS show, but had no idea that there was a business based around his work. The students all walked away with a finished painting that afternoon, and a t-shirt.

I thought I’d throw in this photo. It reminds me of what I say in weaving classes. Anytime you use a new yarn or draft it’s an experiment, even though you may not think the accidents are always happy, at least at the time.

Back home that evening, with Jade who wanted a selfie.