March 23, 2024 Jenny Lake KAL at Mountain Meadow Wool, Week 2.   Several of the Saturday knitting group knitters are out of town, but here we are in week 2 of our Jenny Lake KAL. So, why did we decide to do a KAL on Jenny Lake?  We decided that we wanted to do it because the sample that Carolyn (designer) sent Karen (owner of the mill) was so beautiful, we were inspired to make one for ourselves. We wanted to do a project together. Each of us picked out colors that we wanted for our own Jenny Lake shawl and picked our start date of March 16. The pattern uses 5 skeins of Mountain M ..read more

Clean wool goes through quite a process to get to its final destination- yarn. The first stop is the carder. The carder is a large drum lined with very fine wires which act like a brush taking the loose wool and converting it into "sliver" (rhyming with "diver"). The fibers form an interlocking web. We can card about 30lbs of clean wool per hour. From the carder, the sliver is moved through the pin-drafter. The pin-drafter has rows and rows of pins which look like a hair comb and work to pull individual fibers apart to align them more parallel. The sliver requires 5 or more passes before ..read more

Lambing is a Season? Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall...these are the seasons, we know them all. Or do we? Here at Mountain Meadow Wool Mill, we refer to another season. If you live around or know a rancher, they will be quick to inform you of a critical season in their lives...lambing season, calving season, kidding season, farrowing season, foaling season, etc. The season of bringing new life to the world, the new year's hope and potential investment for their production. And why does it have it's own designated "season"? Because everything a ..read more

From Mountain Meadow Wool to You: Happy Valentine's Day! Enjoy our special product highlights for our knitting friends   Our Easy Thrum Mitten Kit Truly heartwarming! Thrum knitting is a traditional method of knitting unspun wool into knits to add insulation. From the outside of this pattern, the wool takes the shape of little hearts. This kit will warm you from the inside out! And for a limited time, this kit is on sale! Shop Now   ..read more

Summertime is ending!  Fall is beginning! Summer is such a short intense season and always bittersweet when you see the first hint of color coming into the trees.  Oh no…. hurry… enjoy the sun’s warmth and the last of the flowers and the garden!  But also, it is filled with a sigh…no more mowing, watering, mosquitos! Summer is also the time for taking trips whether it’s a picnic in the mountains or a road trip. My husband and I, 3 grandchildren ages 6,4 and 1 and their parents took a road trip the end of July and it was a bit different than our road trip in June!  A l ..read more

Something that has grown tremendously in the past few years is our Legacy Yarn Club. If you’re part of the yarn club, you know all about the subscription, but if you haven’t signed up, this will give you a better understanding of what is included in the box. The Legacy Yarn Club debuted in 2017.  Ben and his wife Carissa were on a road trip where lots of good ideas that come to mind with the miles passing by and the idea to start an exclusive club that showcases the wonderful ability for custom yarn production was born.  We figured a subscription box that featured custom yarn blends ..read more

Some of you die-hard MMW fans may remember me from the blog “The knitter who doesn’t knit”. I’m Josh and I manage our social media and digital marketing efforts. I also just had triplets. I’d like to share the first 2 months of my experience since they’ve been born. There’s been a lot of ups and down, with all three having near-death experiences. Here’s a glimpse into my triplet life. - 11/12/2020 – My wife, Jalissa, moves to Billings, MT for the remainder of her pregnancy (she won’t go past 35 weeks, at this point she’s 30 weeks along and anything can happen). My mother-in-law came from Houst ..read more

Words to Increase You Wisdom from the Makers, Wool is an amazing fiber!  It is renewable, sheep grow a new fleece every year.  It is both wam and cool, an active fiber that reacts to changes in body temperature.  Wool is 100% biodegradable and will naturally decompose in soil in a matter of years, slowly releasing valuable nutrients back into the earth.  It is 100% natural, with a blend of water, sunshine, air, and grass, sheep thrive to produce fiber and meat. So, with this big picture in mind lets talk about superwash vs. non-superwash.  With the convenience of cloth ..read more

Last month my youngest child, now a grown man of 27, was ordained a Catholic priest!  It marked an ending for my husband, Mike, and me….7 children all grown and all off on their own.  Even though we’ve had a few years of quiet, it seemed this event somehow needed to be marked as an end to this chapter in our lives. Mike and I had a nephews wedding to attend in southern Colorado, so we decided to just keep driving afterward and take a few days off, just for us.  Of course…. I never stop working so we did a little mill business along the way.  Our first stop was to Tierra Woo ..read more

Here we are in March, a month that hints of spring out here on the high plains of Wyoming but can’t quite let go of winter.  We’ve had another week of that very thing.  The sun warms us up to 60 but by that evening temperatures plummet again 30 degrees and the snow falls and the wind blows.  But soon…spring will win!  So, until then we all carry our gloves and mittens in our pockets, we don’t think twice about it until something happens to open our eyes.  Sometimes a gem just falls in your lap.  This story of mittens is one of those gems.  Our Kath, who is ou ..read more