Bluefaced Leicester Union

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  • $50 fleece award available

    This year, BLU will sponsor a $50 cash award to the first place BFL fleece at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival. Details will be in the MS&W festival catalog and entry form. So if you have been considering entering a fleece in the contest, this is the year to do it! Here is the…

  • OFFF Show Report

    Several BLU members enjoyed the Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival this past weekend in Canby, OR. Linda Campanario had the First Place Yearling Ewe in the White Wool Class, with Terra Mia Addie. Terra Mia Caleb won Reserve Champion ram lamb in the white wool category for his breeder, Kat Bierkens. Youth member Rhiannon Curley…

  • People’s Choice Award!

    Winning the People’s Choice award in the Black Sheep Gathering fiber arts competition for the third year in a row was BLU board member Karen Szewc’s entry in the Felting:humanoid or critter category.

  • New article in Spin Off magazine

    BLU member and board member Carol Densmore has an article in latest edition of Spin Off. Here is a link to the entire magazine. Spin-Off Magazine-Fall-2016

  • Using Bluefaced Leicester Fiber: Demonstration at National Show

    BFL Blending As part of the National Bluefaced Leicester Show at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival, the Bluefaced Leicester Union will be giving a free demonstration on carding and combing Bluefaced Leicester wool. They will demonstrate the best way to work with beautiful, purly BFL locks and how best to manage the small lock…

  • BFL fleeces shown at Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival

    Submitted by Margie Smith, BLU member 1st place BFL fleece in 2014 MS&W fleece show The fleeces shown, are from Marlindale Farm in New Oxford, PA. Margie and Lynn Smith have been running Marlindale Farm since 1990 having moved from Emmitsburg, MD to New Oxford in 2004. With support from BFL breeders (giving us our…

  • 5th National BFL Show August 16th in Allegan, MI

    The BLU- sponsored dinner will be on SATURDAY evening, August 16th. We are arranging for a room, but will order off the menu for simplicity’s sake. The BLU dinner will be held at the London Grill in Kalamazoo (london-grill.com) The London Grill is not far from the host hotel, Fairfield Inn Kalamazoo West (special rate…

  • Micron Testing Project Results

    Submitted by Robina Koenig @ Tumble Creek Farm, Bend, Oregon Happy New Year and I hope everyone had a wonderful 2013 as we look forward to 2014. As promised, the Micron Testing Project, approved and paid for by the board, was completed within 2013 with the goal of finding the average micron count for the…

  • “Bleatings” from Oregon

    Submitted by Robina Koenig, Tumble Creek Farm Another Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival is long past and winter is setting in here on the high desert. Fond memories and plans for 2013 shows, projects for Christmas on the knitting needles, the ewes and rams getting friendly, and finishing up the yardwork for winter occupy the…

  • MidOhio Fiber Fair

    BFL fiber was well represented at the recent MidOhio Fiber Fair, held in Newark, OH.  Breeders Anne Bisdorf and Lisa Rodenfels had adjoining booths at the show.  Anne had raw fleeces and natural rovings; while Lisa’s booth featured natural white and dyed BFL yarn and dyed locks in a rainbow of colors. Here is Anne’s…