The Traveler Shawl by Drea Renee Knits A sample knit using our two yarn lines combined. Tobacco Root Valley, colors Granite , Madison ,...

The amount of phone calls, messages, and in person conversations we have had this year with Montana Wool Growers trying to figure out something to do with their waste or coarse wool has been very eye opening.  The wool market is in dire need of some sort of change.  Right now, ranchers raising anything coarser then a 26 micron are being told there is no interest in those types of wool. With no market they are advised to just compost it.  That is so sad to me.  I have the mind

Knitting 101 Bitterroot Sagebrush Tank

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Have you heard of the Temperature Blankets? I keep seeing people talk about them and decided to start looking into them. The basic idea is you pick your yarn colors, with those colors decide on a range of temperatures each color will represent. Then you crochet or knit on the blanket everyday based off of the temperature for that day. I decided to do my blanket using my Tobacco Root Valley Yarn in the 13 colors. I am going to use up my stash from sample making, mostly DK

My fifth sweater, was a super fun bottom-up. I made my own colorwork with it by knitting with 2 yarns in different colors, keeping one...

First a little bit about my fiber journey. It all started with the sheep, then selling their wool (18 years ago), couple years later I...

I love to continue learning... Being a dyer I kept running into issues when I was trying to get a certain color that had a mixture of...

Learning something new I decided to try Natural dyeing. I dusted off my Rocky Mountain Dye Plants book, downloaded "Picture This" plant...

Not everyone wants to raise sheep. But I am immensely grateful that many of those who do love to post pics of their lambs and sheep on...