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Give Fleece A Chance

Connecting wool producers to wool users, one sheep at a time.

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‘Give Fleece A Chance’  is a collaborative knitting project creating a flock of sheep using wool sourced from the South West of England. The main aim is to connect wool producers to wool users; connecting farmers and smallholders with people who want to use local wool.

2013: ‘Give Fleece A Chance’ has now finished and we are not taking any more submissions. Thank you to everyone who contributed, either fleece or yarn, or by knitting a sheep.

Read our book about the project here.
How the project evolved can be read in the news section.
Photos and information about all the sheep knitted can be found in our catalogue of sheep.
There are links to all the yarn and fleece suppliers in the links section.
The pattern for the sheep can be downloaded from the pattern page.

June 2011: Working with the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW) we have developed an online Wool Directory for British wool producers and wool users. We are listing farmers and smallholders who have fleece and hopefully connecting them up to those of us who want to use local fleece.

March 2016: Unfortunately the online Wool Directory has now closed.

If you want to contact me about the project, email claire(at)clairecrompton.co.uk

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  • Number of Sheep

    260
  • Fleece and Yarn Used

    Berrichon du Cher/Texel cross
    Blue Faced Leicester
    Blue Faced Leicester/Shetland cross
    Border Leicester
    Bowmont
    Castlemilk Moorit
    Cotswold
    Cotswold/Merino cross
    Devon and Cornwall Longwool
    Devon and Cornwall Longwool/Dorset cross
    Devon Closewool
    Dorset Down
    Dorset Down and Mohair blend
    Dorset Horn
    Exmoor/Romney cross
    Exmoor/Blue Faced Leicester cross
    Friesland and Dorset blend
    Gotland
    Grey Faced Dartmoor
    Grey Faced Dartmoor and Alpaca blend
    Hampshire Down
    Hebridean
    Herdwick
    Herdwick/Lleyn cross
    Jacob
    Jacob Lambswool
    Jacob and Alpaca blend
    Jacob and Mohair blend
    Jacob/Cotswold cross
    Jacob/Texel cross
    Kerry Hill
    Leicester Longwool
    Llanwenog and Friesland blend
    Lleyn
    Lleyn Lambswool
    Lleyn and Alpaca blend
    Manx Loaghtan
    Manx Loaghtan and Alpaca blend
    North Ronaldsay
    Ouessant
    Oxford Down
    Oxford Down Lambswool
    Poll Dorset
    Poll Dorset and Alpaca blend
    Poll Dorset/Charolais cross
    Romney
    Romney/Dutch cross
    Romney/Jacob cross
    Ryeland
    Scottish Blackface
    Shetland
    Shetland and Hebridean blend
    Shetland/Jacob cross
    Suffolk
    Teeswater
    Texel
    Welsh Black
    Wensleydale - Black
    White Faced Dartmoor
    Zwartbles
    Zwartbles and Friesland blend

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