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Karoo lamb… from a crochet hook!

What is a farmer’s wife to do in the midst of the crippling drought in the Karoo as she watches their flock of sheep becoming skinnier and their income drying up? She makes a plan, of course, and starts to create sheep – fat little sheep that can give farmers hope again – using nothing but wool and her crochet hook.

Chrisma van der Merwe from the farm Middelkop in the Murraysburg district calls these adorable soft

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