Hi everyone. So I finally finished the green shawl (for sale and is now up on Etsy) and loved the pattern so much I wanted to make one for myself. I started one in heather gray but for the life of me I don’t remember where I put it! So I started yet another one this [...]
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Daisy and Crystal Fiber Wordless Wednesday Share your fiber animal photos with us! Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets — Easy-Linky widget will appear right here!This preview will disappear when the widget is displayed on your site.For best results, use HTML mode to edit this section of the post. [...] Welcome back to Fiber Market Mondays! This is a forum to showcase anything made from natural animal fiber, raw fiber or even the fiber animals themselves! Spring is here and with it comes Mother’s Day. What better way to celebrate mother’s day than a mommy and me starter herd package?! This package is a [...] Welcome to Fiber Market Monday’s! This is a place where folks can market their fiber goodies be them handmade, raw or processed fiber, or maybe even the fiber animal themselves! This week I’m offering special pre-shearing price for the raw prime fleece from our alpaca, CoHo. CoHo is small and very fiber mighty. He yields [...] I have been slacking in my fiber duties as of late but this past weekend brought me back into the swing of things. Saturday I got to enjoy a day of fiber fun with my neighbor Stephanie who raises the rare breed of Hog Island Sheep. I’m told there are about 200 head left in [...]
March: In like a lion out like a pregnant angry spitting alpaca dam? Do you raise fiber Animals? Share a link to your farm photos here! Mister Linky’s Magical Widgets — Easy-Linky widget will appear right here! This preview will disappear when the widget is displayed [...] Welcome back to FAF. I hope you have your learning caps on because I’ve been digging into the research again. This time I wasn’t sure what I was looking for but ended up getting all angry at today’s alpaca industry. Long story short? Why is it in the late 1800′s there was a perfectly sustainable [...] If you happen to follow me on Twitter or Facebook you’ll know that I usually toss out a “today in history” blurb. I was inspired by one of these for today’s FAF post. Monday might have been Valentine’s Day but it is also another exciting day in US fiber history. In 1974 the first US Textile Patent went [...] My fiber week was spent back to what I like doing the most. Making ropes for mecate reins, leashes or lead ropes and of course my fiber of choice is alpaca. But why? When I got into raising alpacas everyone told me how much better alpaca fiber was for one reason or another and I [...] Welcome back to Fiber Arts Friday! Link association buttons are now at the end of the post if you were wondering. This week for the first time ever I got to spend it with other fiber folks! I was asked by the Genesee Valley Sock Machine Club to come do a spinning demonstration with them [...] |
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