Beautiful Frosty Mornings!

Morning sunshine highlights complexity of frosty crystals.

Winter peace has settled upon the landscape of Wheely Wooly Farm.  Snow covers the ground while the temperature dips.  The sunshine is bright as it glints through the frosted window panes, showing diamond-like fire in the ice!  It's so pretty, one can't help but slow down for a study of the many shapes of all the crystals when walking by.  Steaming hot coffee...sweet feathered friends hopping about, and warm toes snuggled in wool socks all toasty warm!  

As the day goes on, we bustle about.  Hats, scarves, sweaters and mittens for the barn, then all over again for going off to the city, then all over again to check on the flock once more.  Just as the frost grows and wanes on the window panes, so too do the layers we don for each step of the day.

What?  Don't have your Wheelspun Yarns yet?  Check out the store for many colors and now patterns, too!  Take out your hooks and needles, make a toasty beverage, and settle into making some warmth for yourself and your family!  You'll be so glad you did!

Peace and Joy To All!

The shepherds and flock of Wheely Wooly Farm wish all of you a very happy Holiday Season, full of joy and peace!  We will be taking some time off now for rest, after a very busy year.  However, the online store will remain open all through the holidays and will be checked frequently for your orders.  Thank you for your support in 2017!  It is an honor to bring you fine yarns straight from the farm and we hope you find peace and happiness while making nice things from the yarn!

Scarves FINALLY in the store!!

Smoky Mountain Sunrise

Please forgive us for taking so long to get the scarves in the online store!  Here is the start of them...with at least three photos of each to see in the description of each scarf.  For warmth with style, we spin style and performance together!  Click here to enter store:

Wheely Wooly Farm's Online Store

(What clown forgot to remove the date stamp on the camera?!?  I guess sheep farms are not really photography studios...)

Sock Knitting Season is upon us!

For the best sock yarn you'll ever find, check out the Wheely Wooly Farm store!  There you'll discover bulkier yarns for heavy boot socks or super comfy house socks, such as Beatrice, Misty, or Lil' Dipper.  For socks that will fit into clogs or shoes, look for worsted yarns, which is nearly all the rest of the yarns in the store.

WHY have cold feet, when you can be warm?  Click our website to the right to find the store.

As the year comes to a close:

As 2017 comes to a close, Wheely Wooly Farm, the shepherds, the sheep dogs, the sheep, and even the barn cats are content to let winter peacefully fall upon the landscape so that we may all rest and take some time together!  It has been a busy year, starting with hot weather and tank tops to wool sweaters and mittens, from the call of seagulls over the building tops to jingle bells and cinnamon smells.  It's a good thing it's time to recoup and rest, because once again, our inventory is down quite low.

Wilbur is now all sold out again (and most, if not all of Lil' Rainbow?), and I think there are only a couple of Motif skeins left.  The Mona skeins are nearly out, only a couple left of Bobbin, and even Iris is getting low.  Bobble is sold out, Beatrice is popular in this cold weather as everyone thinks of wanting more warmth.  While the natural colors are very low, there is a nice selection of dyed yarns, including Glacier, Ruby Red, Violets, a little Aquamarine, and such.  We knew it'd be hard to get through 2017 with enough moorit, with Gwendolyn and Gracie lambing and missing out on a good production year, along with some other moorits lightening up to more of a mooskit.

Not only have we attended nearly every market since June and pumped out more yarn than ever, we undertook a huge farm project as well in refencing our pastures for the security of our sheep and dogs.  That took a LONG time! lol  And the farm office has seen some changes so that we may more efficiently serve all of you.

In all, 2017 has been a very big year for the farm!  The hours have been long, and challenges popping up all the time.  The new office is a breeze to work in, and the spinning wheel always beckons, with fleeces lined up in a tidy row, each ready for it's turn.  Ideas buzz in our heads like bees swarming around a good hive!   I have a feeling rest and down time won't last long, for January is looking really exciting!!

And now, the count down begins for gifts.  Don't forget that we now offer gift cards!  I hope to have them on the store a.s.a.p. and so much more!  If you need a gift basket in time for the holidays, please don't wait to order, as shipping deadlines are fast approaching.  Remember, shipping is FREE for a little while longer!

Sheep Farms are not...

photography studios. lol

BACK OPEN!

It is with great relief and joy that we can say...we are back open!  Yes, our online shop is back open, after a very intense period.  Behind the scenes, the shepherds have been working a TON of hours to bring you a smooth and safe online shopping experience!  We already know it will be appreciated, and we are surely grateful to all who are growing with us slowly but surely!

The decision was made to stick with our earlier store, which is powered by Square, and has proven very trustworthy for us all.  This store has it's limits, but it will satisfy all that is needed so that you can still get your yarns and needles before Christmas, and long after that!  New items have been added, so you'll have to go see! 

Penny's Stocking Stuffer Bundle - for every knitter's dreams!

To reduce the amount of downtime with no online shopping (five days was wayyyy too long already!), things had to happen quickly, therefore, we know all the skeins we have available for sale are not all back in the store.  As the days pass, we will fix this.  If you happen to notice something you'd like in your online shopping experience, that the store is lacking in or could use improvement with, please do not feel afraid to email your comments about such things to us and we'll strive to get things just as everyone likes.  

So much of what we have to offer is not in the online store yet, but we hope to have it there soon!  We did manage to get some pretty gift baskets put together, and had a lot of fun doing that!  Who will the lucky knitters or crocheters be who score these special gifts for Christmas?!?

Well, that's the news at the moment!  Happy shopping everyone, and oh, almost forgot!  Free shipping will be extended through the holiday shopping season as our thanks to everyone!  

A very important announcement

Wheely Wooly Farm's online store has been closed, due to not receiving deposits from a large payment processor.  We have worked diligently to resolve the problem over an extended period of time, with no forward movement towards resolution.  Simply put, our money has been stolen.

We believe that at no time was customer information compromised, and all who ordered received their yarn.  If you ordered yarn through this payment processor, we have been informed that you will be receiving a refund sometime in January. 

It is hoped that, after healing from this burn, that we can start anew in creating a secure, and pleasurable online shopping experience for all of you who desire the beautiful Wheelspun Yarns straight from the farm.  And next time, we will be sticking with Square, who has been very trustworthy for us all.

CRASH, SMASH, BANG!!

Want to see a shepherd leap into action in one second flat?!?  Probably, not really. lol

Last night, we started feeling like the house was haunted or something.  It was a night frought with problems.  All of them proved minor in the end, but it sure changed the peace we had felt before the wind kicked up.  With gusts roaring up to 50 m.p.h. and temps falling from 62 degrees F here at the farm to 29 degrees 9 hours later, it was NOT a peaceful night!!

The worst to happen was this horrible crash in the basement, followed by farmhouse cat, Maisie Mittens raging into the worst cat fight sounds imaginable!  Hissing, howling, fighting, banging, thumping,  oh boy!  It was nuts!!  We raced down to the lowest level we have to investigate...very carefully.  It seemed something was loose in the basement....a monster?  An alien?  A bear?  lol

No.  It was just Sugar Bear!!!  "Paws" as we call him, seems to have cleverly found his own way into the house.  I think he'd pass an intelligence test, if put to it.  For some reason, he has decided Maisie is a threat.  He chased her and scared the daylights out of her.  They tore up the steps, hissing, howling, fighting, thumping, then nearly fell back down.  She ultimately hid under something he couldn't get under...cause he's a little...ah....fat.  There she was, howling this alien noise at him, he standing there tail twitching.  After separating them safely, we sent him BACK outside.  How on earth did he get in, anyway??

Back to Maisie.  Paws drew blood somehow.  Maisie was in a high hiding spot, licking her ego and wounds.  We started putting things back in order, picking up the stuff they scattered around.  Then, we heard banging on a window.  Scared, we were afraid something was trying to get in!  Then, we saw it!!!  Sugar Bear's FACE!!  We laughed and laughed!  Seems Sugar Bear has learned how to get in, and was very frustrated that we fixed his 'door' tightly in place!

Once that commotion was settled, the wind banged, howled, and raged all night, and all day.  But everything is fine.  The sheep are cozy in the barn, out of the nasty wind.  And Paws?  No sofa time for him today!  He's outside, in his glory, chasing leaves, leaping at leaves in the air, darting after leaves spinning in whirlwinds, and such.  He's having a ball!

The view out the farmhouse windows is always interesting!

WooHoo!

Always feels good to run on nice, sunny day!

Let's see...Posie is in front to the left, then Splashlyn (black far left), Beatrice with pig tails flying, Sweetie or Sweetness is the little white Shetland sheep in center, behind her is tall Jinka, a mess after her first lamb and growing back so fast after shearing, I almost forgot I sheared her..., to right and behind Sweetie is Peerielyn, the rest are Rosebud, Buzzy, Misty, and Phloxie.  The rest are out of sight of the camera.  Love them all!!