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FAF – Spinning fun and Alpaca Cowl Pattern

What a long month of July. No rain, intense heat, and lots of spinning for the Tour de Fleece. Thankfully this year we got air conditioning! Yippy, so I managed to enjoy fiber in cool comfort instead of fighting with it sticking to me in sloppy humidity.

I present to you my collage of [...]

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Fiber Arts Friday: New Foal

Welcome back Fiber Arts Friday fans!

Ok, I must admit that I have not being getting much done fiber arts wise this week. The reason, we have a new baby!

I present to you DHA Reno’s Southern Belle

The only fiber stuff I’ve done this week was 1) buying new alpacas and 2) dying [...]

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Fiber Arts Friday – Dyeing and Spinning

Welcome Fiber Arts Friday and Crafty Friday Folks.

This week was full of spinning, dying and felt soap making.

Sorry I’m going to be short today but things are rather busy.

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Fiber Arts Friday – Flat Alpacas Don’t Spit

Hello again Fiber Arts Friday and Crafty Friday Folks.

Good weather and big crowds made our stay at DEC days great! Day 1 I had both CoHo and CW with us but CoHo decided he no longer wanted to be at trade shows. He hummed, squealed and when some rowdy teens started to provoke him [...]

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Fiber Arts Friday – Preparing for Shows

Welcome to Fiber Arts Friday and Crafty Friday!

What a crazy week! I’ll try to keep things short and to the point and in some sort of order without too much babbling. Hope you can keep up.

1. We have yet another new cria! Last Friday I got a call around 4pm saying there was [...]

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Fiber Arts Friday – Where Did Sept Go?

Welcome Fiber Arts Friday and Crafty Friday folks.

What a crazy week. Unfortunately it wasn’t all fiber fun. Instead I was dealing with things like my car failing inspection, my herd sire getting beat up by 2 intact fiber boys and crappy weather making it impossible to get things done outside. But, I did manage [...]

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Fiber Arts Friday – Roving Yarn and Hats Oh My!

Hello Fiber Arts Friday and Crafty Friday folks!

What a wonderful week of fiber surprises. When you send your shearing clip off to the mill often it seems like you’re sending it into oblivion. Initially you talk to the mill, making sure they know exactly what you want and then you wait. Depending on the [...]

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Fiber Arts Friday – Diversify

Welcome Fiber Arts Friday and Crafty Friday followers.

If you haven’t figured out from last week’s FAF title I have fiber arts ADD. I am always trying to figure out other ways of using my alpaca fiber and here are this week’s results. I’m going to let the photos do all the talking.

Loop [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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