Fiber Arts Friday – Fiber ADD

Welcome Fiber Arts Friday and Crafty Friday fans to another week of craziness.

Ever since I brought my first fiber alpacas home I’ve been bitten by the fiber bug, and hard.  Finding time to do everything I want to do both professionally, on the farm and with fiber is hard!   As it stands this week [...]

August 20th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Fiber Arts, Fiber Arts Friday | 3 comments - (Comments are closed)

Fiber Arts Friday – Still Spinning

Good day Fiber Arts Friday and Crafty Friday followers.

Now that I have a spinning wheel I just can’t keep my hands off of it.  I spin almost every night after work, my way of winding down for the night. 

I’ve been experimenting with the wheel and the different speeds.  I tried my first single [...]

August 6th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Fiber Arts, Fiber Arts Friday | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

My 3rd ever hand spun skein of yarn!

I had a nice quiet weekend and with mother nature constantly raining on us I had the opportunity to spin on my drop spindle again.  I spun up a nice 3 ply yarn out of my boy CoHo.   The fiber I used raw neck fiber.  No washing, no carding, just brushed the top out and [...]

August 4th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Fiber Arts | Comments are closed

Shearing Day!

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Ahhhh, Finally getting that thick blanket off

Full spa treatment – pedicure

Little CoHo, pound for pound he had the most fleece. Over 4 inches of staple length on his neck alone!

Tam gets alpaca kisses.

Pink alpaca tummy.

Thank you Salmon [...]

May 4th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Category: Alpaca, Caring For Alpacas | Comments are closed
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