About Us

If you clicked on this page I figure us must want to know who we are and what we do and why. So here it goes.

We, Shannon and Todd or Mr. Todd as he is often known, live in northwest Montana about 15 minutes from the entrance of Glacier National park. We live on a 5 acre micro homestead in the town we grew up in.  We have 4 grown-up children and 3 grandchildren who are the lights of our lives. We currently have a flock of 5 merino sheep, 3 llamas, chickens, honey bees and a Labrador Retriever who isn't a farm dog at all but more a pampered princess. We are using rotational grazing practices to rebuild the soil on our little homestead.  We also garden and are trying to work toward growing more of our own food. 

We really didn't set out to be fiber farmers or wool processors  it just sort of happened..........I (Shannon) learned to knit as a child.  Over the years I have knitted, cross-stitched, sewn and other various crafts. When my children were young we read a book  that talked about weaving and I was intrigued. I bought a ridged heddle loom and I was off.  Learning to spin came next. Then there were a lot of years where not much was happening from a fiber arts standpoint as I was busy with children and homeschooling. 

A few years ago I got serious about spinning, knitting and dyeing again and I started to wonder about where the wool was coming from. I took a class on fiber preparation and started purchasing local fleeces so I would be able to see where there sheep were living and how. Around this same time I met John and Carol Steitz of Steitzhof Merinos and an idea was born.

What if I raised my own small flock of sheep with the idea of producing quality fiber, processing it by hand, spinning and dying the yarn and selling to other people who love the idea of wool that has loving been processed by the farmer who raised the sheep.  And that is how Unicorn Fluff came to be.   I  love having my hands on every stage from raising the sheep, shearing, skirting, scouring, combing/carding the wool, spinning and dyeing it and sending in off to a knitter, crocheter or weaver to make something beautiful.