Exclusive! Locally grown wool yarn from the Timm Ranch in Solano County, California. The sheep are a “ranch blend” of Rambouillet - Targhee - Polypay. Samples from a dozen fleeces this year measured an average of 23.3 microns. The fiber is super clean and free of VM. The 2025 Timm Ranch yarn is a beautiful creamy white 2-ply sport weight yarn. This small-farm yarn is handled with care at every step: raising the animals, choosing the fleeces, carding and combing the wool, and spinning the yarn. It works beautifully in weaving, knitting, and crochet, resulting in soft yet sturdy projects. 

On the Timm’s shearing day Farm Club friends and I sort and skirt fleeces. This spring I sent 280 pounds of wool to Mountain Meadow Mill in Wyoming for scouring, carding, and spinning and got the yarn back in July.

Yarn is available in skeins and a limited number of cones. Yarn was spun at approximately 1421 yds/lb. The wool was scoured before processing, but the coned yarn has not been washed after spinning. Washing allows the yarn to bloom. When you use coned yarn you need to allow for the changes that happen to the yarn after washing the finished project. The photos show coned yarn at 19 wpi (wraps/inch) before washing and 13 wpi after washing. Skeined yarn is not under tension and measures 16 wpi before washing and 13 wpi after. The skeined yarn for sale has been washed.

I sett this yarn at 8 or 10 epi for most weaving projects. Knitting friends recommend using US size 5-8 (3.75-5mm) knitting needles, and G-I (4.25-5.5mm) crochet hooks, depending on the project.

Photos:
Dappled Light Bandana Cowl by KiraK, Pattern
Blankets woven by Robin, naturally dyed.
Year to Remember blanket, naturally dyed.

YN-TR-25 Skeins: Two-ounce skeins; approximately 184 yards; $20/skein.

YNTR-25-Cone, 3 lb, $225 . Shipping cost added to cones.