Renee Tully has been spinning since 1999. She was born in Europe where her love for knitting started at an early age. She came to the US in 1954 and lived in New York, where she continued her knitting. With the beginning of synthetic yarn, she started to dream about spinning and upon retirement her boss gave her her first spinning wheel. To be able to knit with real wool she got 2 Shetland sheep. This started RenCon Ranch, with her partner Conrad Tracy. They breed pedigree Shetland sheep and now have 14 and sells their fiber, either raw or in roving.