About Us
Fleeces and Pieces is a small company specialising in handmade products made from local, natural and sustainable materials. Our products page shows you what we have currently available, but we would be happy to work with customers to create that special product to be individually yours.
Sheep
Starting with a small flock of sheep for home milk and cheese production the garments idea grew from what to do with the growing heap of woolly stuff! Once the family were fully supplied, orders came for ’ one of those’ please. Spinning classes swiftly followed and the rest is history. Pieces So now we had many happy well dressed customers but also a heap of shorter fibres that weren’t the best for spinning.... What to do?.... Felting....of course...
Felt
First came the bags and then decorative flowers as brooches and adornments. Now our range is continually expanding to included belts, berets and scarves.
Wood
Our products needed buttons, toggles and buckles. So determined as we were to source natural local and sustainable materials We have been joined by a local wood craftsman who designs for us and makes an ever increasing range of unique accessories made from tree cuttings and off-cuts.
Alpaca
An opportunity arose to work with Alpaca. This has proved to be a highly desirable product. Alpaca is incredibly soft, is hypo-allergenic and is much lighter and warmer than sheep wool due to the hollow fibre. This makes it especially suitable for babies and people who find wool itchy. As with wool we found that we had surplus Alpaca fibre that was not suitable for spinning and so have recently discovered that Alpaca can also be felted so allowing us a new opportunity to combine materials and textures.
Our Products
We are constantly adding to our range of products which include the following;
- Hand knits: for adults and children including jumpers, jackets, shrugs, fingerless mitts, scarves and socks.
- Felted products: bags, belts and accessories.
- Wooden: buttons, buckles.
- Garden needs: slug repellent, hanging basket liners.
We enjoy thinking up ideas for our products but are always happy to work with customers ideas to create that extra special product.
In addition if you feel the urge to pick up your needles we can supply you with wool, alpaca or a 50/50 mix of knitting yarn.
We consider ourselves holistic fabricators which is why you will find things like hanging basket liners and the best ever organic slug repellent on our web-site. We use the whole fleece.....Enjoy!
P. S. For the horticulturally challenged amongst you, the weedy plant crawling over our site is called shepherd's purse. As we are sheep owners and bag makers we hope you enjoy the pun too!