Half Moon 

100% British wool

This warm scarf is inspired by the starlit sky with a bright half moon, which I had the fortune to see when I was woken the other night by the owl.

Plain weave with blade shorn black Jacob wool from Heydon Hill Woods on Exmoor.

Blade shorn grey lambswool from my beautiful Icelandic lambs.

White Llanwenog from a smallholding in Wales.

166cm by 24cm.

Who remembers my trip to Iceland in September? And how it took less than a week to come home and buy six Icelandic ewe lambs?

Within a couple of weeks they were penned up for blade shearing to make the most of their precious summer lambs wool.

Packed up and posted off to the mill for spinning in to a delicious lopi style yarn.

This is my second piece woven with  Black Kat's stunning lambswool Icelandic fleece.

The white warp threads are from a rare breed flock in Wales, llanwenog sheep. I bought a cone from the smallholder and loved it so much I bought the rest. It has fluffed up beautifully.

And the weft is my home grown lambswool from my new girls, including Black Kat who is pictured here on her way to ours and at shearing.

Icelandic fleeces have two layers; the thel and the tog. Both are spun together here so this warm wrap around scarf has the telly tale halo of the longer fibres and the warmth and bounce of the shorter crimpy fibres.

The black Jacob is from a small flock on Exmoor who join me on shearing day so that they are blade shorn along with my flock.