About me.

I'm involved in the whole process, from start to finish.  I love to see and appreciate, "where it all comes from".  Listening to my many bunnies hopping around their cages to greet me in the morning, makes me smile.  After fresh hay, fresh water, and treats, I clean the cages... every day.  It's my own personal mini farm with all the satisfaction.  Watching them thrive in good health, begging for a head petting, I know I've done well. 

Then, it's on to the grooming!  Every few weeks, I check every bunny for the tiny knots that invariable start behind the ears and hind legs.  I keep the fur on all their feet carefully trimmed short, to prevent soiling.  It's easier for the bunnies to keep their feet clean if the fur is short.  Of course, touching and combing the luxurious coat as it grows out is just heavenly.  After three months gone by, I get to shear the bunnies.  Good grooming habits have rewarded me with a long, clean, smooth coat, a pleasure to cut and sort.  With everything longer than 3" in one pile, and everything shorter in other piles, it all gets weighed, and recorded in my bunny journals.  I track my best producers, so I know I only breed the very best of my herd. 

With all the bunnies clean and safe in their cages, it's time for fiber processing.  Even though the fiber is already very clean, it has a thin, almost imperceptible oil.  After washing in mild ivory dish soap, color dyed, washed again, rinsed repeatedly, then dried, and fluffed, it gets carded.  Carding is the process of brushing the fiber back and forth with two special brushes.  This makes the fiber align into fluffy roving, ready to make into felt.

Still not done.  The soft, fluffy, fresh smelling roving needs to be formed, and needle felted.  The needles are very sharp with tiny barbs on the side that grab and interlock the fine fibers into a fabric that holds together.  It's 2 a.m. and I'm poking my fingers, again.  I should know well enough when to stop, and just go to bed!  Art, and time seem to mean nothing to each other!

Thank you for looking, and listening.  I hope to hear from you.  Buy confidently.  I'll make every effort to keep you happy.   -Sharon Warren, fiber artist

Be Genuine.        Be Natural.        Buy Angora.