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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 – New Fiber

Welcome Fiber Arts Friday and Crafty Friday Folks.

I haven’t been overly fibery this week because of some big projects and unexpected surprises.

Let me start off with what I did manage to do. I got 2 skeins spun up of my alpaca/merino. Nice bulky 2 ply ready for a hat or thick scarf. If [...]

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Labor Day 2010 – Too much work

Here we are at another labor day on the farm and another year of projects too big for the weekend.

Project 1 was planned. One of our alpacas constantly got through the strand fencing and went on walk-about. So, I decided to rip out all the old fence and install field fencing. Sounds simple. Yeah [...]

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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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Alpaca Boys New Home

This weekend has been spent working on the alpaca boys new home. Right now I have temporary fence and a redneck shelter for them to use.

M. has been working on leveling the new area where the amish will put the new run-in shed. Since there isn’t so much as 1 area on the property [...]

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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 – Using Hand Carders

Hello Fiber Arts Friday and Crafty Friday Folks!

I present to you the headless hand carder! Seriously I do have a head a swear but I couldn’t back the camera up any more so I fit in as well as being able to see the carders.

Check out the Fiber Arts Friday link above to [...]

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