1:st homegrown yarn!

Finally, I managed to sort my first homegrown fleeces. They were shorn months ago, but temperature and weather were against my doing it earlier.
First, perhaps, a portrait of the "donors" - they are two old Finn ladies. They aren't interested in getting their picture taken, but here's one and part of the other:


It will be some time until I get the fleece washed, but I wanted to spin a couple of small samples all the same.
This is the first - carded and "spindled":




After plying and washing it looks like this:


This small sample is approximately 10 wraps per centimeter. It came out nice and lofty with lots of elasticity.

Next sample will be combed, I think.

Gowns on stage

New/more official pictures of the academic dress of Linnaeus University: the four promotors declaring their right to confer the degree.
Here is a picture of the rector, out of his gown but still wearing the chain of office. As appropriate, for this part of the country, it is made of glass...