Sewing up a blasted sheep….

You can guarantee sheep will be awkward. Henry Brewis, in one of his humorous farming books commented that you can give a sick sheep "£40 of wonder drugs" and it will still die on you.

If you haven't already done so, perhaps you should knit a sheepdog to help you control them .

I do admire your perseverance! I find if the legs are splaying, it helps to stitch the top of the inner legs a bit closer together?

Would love to see photos of the finished set?

I love your sewing projects.
Are you going to post a photo when lambsy is done, please?

Good idea about the sheepdog

Im seeing sheep jumping over a gate, so it must be bedtime!

My farmer son-in-law says sheep just up and die for no reason whatsoever. They don’t keep sheep now but they have a sheepdog. She doesn’t like bad weather and won’t go outside if it’s raining. ?

I watched Jeremy Clarkson's Farm and he was complaining about all the money he spent on vets bills and food for the sheep but he only got £40 for them when they went for meat and sheepskins were ridiculously low priced and barely covered by all the work of shearing. I hadn't realised they were so low profit.

Funny creatures!

I always wanted to be a farmers wife when I grew up.

I'm not sure there is still time, now.

I bought two sheep, Witzend, one is lovely and the other looks more like a dog ??
The lovely one is a New Zealand sheep, he's rather large ?, the odd one is from the Cotswolds.

They just need a N set (Jesus and Mary are finished)!

I always wanted to be a farmers wife when I grew up.
Don't do it!!

I always wanted goats

I love animals, but not goats.
We went to a sanctuary place where children could go in and feed them, and a goat chased me around and knocked me over.

Oh no! They are strange creatures and a little freaky how they look at you sometimes. I liked them because the ones I knew were very affectionate, although I think a dog is better all round company, less damaging to your garden ( and a lot less smelly!)

Sheep number one does look particularly gormless - a sheepdog would def. be a good idea - but at least I’ve got it to stand up.
Number two will have to wait until tomorrow - I haven’t even knitted it yet. According to the pattern there should be a number three, too, but stuff that.

My younger sister is demanding a nice little pile of donkey poo to add authenticity to the scene (I did make one for Gdcs’ set - 3 ‘holly berries’ done in brown and stitched together) but I’m not sure quite everybody at a C of E school fair would appreciate it.

They have funny slitty eyes, and I always think of that book "the devil rides out" when I see them.

Did it have a goats skull on it?

Dennis someone?

Dennis wasn't the goats name.
At least I don't think so, but he didnt introduce himself.

Dennis Wheatman?

Wheatley I think

That's it.
It was on a small dark table, with a candlestick near it, in a little holiday flat we stayed in when I was small, and I used to run past it.

I guessed it was you Witzend when I read the title.
I dont know how you have the patience. Each year I promise I will make a Nativity, but as soon as Christmas is over, the impetus wains.

The goat or his book?

The whole table.
Book, candlestick, all of it gave me the heebie jeebies.

It was a scary cover. I remember my parents had it. The goats face was red, I think?
That table ect., sounds very Agatha Christie.

Dennis Wheatley!

Callistemon, have you actually sewn up some of your languishing bits? If so, ??!
I thought at first that you meant real sheep, as in mint sauce! If one looks like a dog are you sure it’s not a Bedlington Terrier instead - they do look rather like sheep. But very sweet.

You couldn’t make it up! - but in the better daylight of this morning, I’ve realised that I’ve done the gormless animal’s back legs in white instead of pale cream - it’s very noticeable now - and will have to effing well unpick and do them again. ?

Witzend

Sheep number one does look particularly gormless - a sheepdog would def. be a good idea - but at least I’ve got it to stand up.
Number two will have to wait until tomorrow - I haven’t even knitted it yet. According to the pattern there should be a number three, too, but stuff that.

My younger sister is demanding a nice little pile of donkey poo to add authenticity to the scene (I did make one for Gdcs’ set - 3 ‘holly berries’ done in brown and stitched together) but I’m not sure quite everybody at a C of E school fair would appreciate it.

I would put them in a little bag and put a tag on it ? that read something like "manure optional". Or "free poo with every set"...