My sister, Jeannette, raised Shetland and other kinds of sheep on her Burning Daylight Ranch. She had some of the wool made into wonderful thick, warm brown batting for quilts. I have made several of the quilts now using the batting and they are great. I tie them with pearl cotton, as you see below. They are comfortable in a wide range of temperatures and just make you feel happy to get in bed! This Civil War reproduction fabric quilt is the first one I made for Brian and myself. All of these quilts are 90" by 90"
Below is the quilt I made for Jeannette and Rodney. Only three fabrics in this quilt and it turned out very pretty. Lucy helped, as usual.
Looks like I had some trouble with the date on this one. Actually, I finished it for my brother, Jon and Mike for Christmas of 2008. These old-fashioned, beautiful fabrics were fun to work with. The background is also scrappy.
Here is a photo of one of the batts, sewn in cheesecloth with soft wool ties. They were processed by Zeillinger Wool in Frankenmuth, Michigan.
Here is the one I made for my sister Chris and Dennis. About 30 different batiks were used. The batik fabric was surprisingly harder to get the needle with the pearl cotton through. I was going for sunset colors.
