If there’s something Scotland has a lot of, it’s sheep. Not only around here, but across the whole country, the hills are always dotted with fluffy white animals, and one of the first signs of spring is the appearance of lots of little lambs skipping around. I’ve always thought it so funny that farmers need to identify which lamb belongs to which mother by spray-painting big numbers on the sides of the animals – I’m sure the sheep themselves all know perfectly well which lamb belongs to who. But it’s fun to survey the fields and pair up (for example) lamb number 27 with its mother ewe number 27, and that’s what inspired this week’s picture
How to know where you belong…
As they were pictures of sheep it was natural to use my embellisher machine to make applique fabric out of some old scraps of wool roving and yarn, felted onto a fabric backing. Like all my attempts at felting, the results are a bit scruffy, but it all looks fine when the pieces of woolly cloth are made into sheep
Oh yes, the felting works great for sheep and their lambs. Love your painted background fabric. It looks like the grass is starting to turn green and greener in places, just like mother nature intended. Thanks for sharing with us.
Wonderful you can see the hillside and the lambs running around just love it!
Great job! I really look forward to your Monday emails to see what you have created next. Always amazing!!
As always your hand painted fabric is the perfect complement to your wooly applique sheep. Love the idea of using hand made felted wool for the applique fabric for the sheep. A magnificent embroidery!
How funny.
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They remind me of race cars. Now I’ll always think of Scotland’s Race Car Sheep.
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I don’t know what it would be like to keep up with hundreds or thousands of lambs, but I do know that when a litter of puppies is born and they all look alike that I need to track each puppy’s health to know if they’re gaining or failing. We often paint something on their bellies so I can tell which puppy I’m weighing.
I have no clue what things a farmer would track to measure health stuff about sheep, though.
I love your use of the embellished fabric for the lambs.
Love your sheep. The ewe putting her head down warning the little lamb he has the wrong mom it so realistic. Great job!