This week our featured Fiber Artist is Karen Gielen of Cre8tive KJ’s Corner. Karen is also an Alpaca Breeder in Minnesota! This week she has written this amazing tutorial on how to make these lovely felted journals. Her instructions take you step by step through the process, complete with lots of pictures. What a great [...]
The 3 Musketeers. Left to right: Sabrina, Lewis, & Clark.
This morning they were all lying around near Honeybelle, who is due any day.
Lewis is trying to give Sable a kiss.
Great Pyrenees pup on patrol.
Participating in Wordless Wednesday.
Once the kids got finished dyeing their eggs…
I decided to dye some alpaca yarn. The dye was too tempting, I couldn’t just dump it out!
Set out to dry. I was pleased with the results!
Time for Cupcakes!
My Five Artists on Easter Sunday. We cleaned up and made it to church
(not an easy feat for us). Yea! [...]
Not alpacas, and not for the squeamish, – but this video is really special!
This wonderful lambing video was made by our friends at GreatWool Blog. Please do visit their blog. It’s perfect for Easter week. She has inspired me to learn some video editing skills. Maybe I can bring you an alpaca birthing video sometime [...]
This week I interviewed an adorable woman from London, Katie Lee (@shinykatie to the Twitterati) who crochets. I have been interested in learning crochet, but I had some questions first. Hope you enjoy this interview. Stick around at the end for some other cool Fiber Arts blogs/sites. Please visit them and leave them some comment [...]
Alpaca Cria Sunning.
Participating in Wordless Wednesday.
What makes this Farmgirl cry? Usually the montage that they show after every NCAA Men’s Championship game with Luther Vandrose’s One Shining Moment playing. I held strong this time and only had 1 tear well up to go with some serious goosebumps. If you don’t find this moving,…well, you may want to have someone check [...]
The other day one of my Twitter friends asked, “What is March Madness?” She thought it was a sale at Target or something.
This made me realize that some people don’t know what they are missing by not following the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. As children, girls have their fairy tales that inspire their dreams, hopes, [...]
This week’s spotlight fiber art is Hand Dyeing. This farmgirl is new to dyeing, so I thought I would try it out with some alpaca yarn that I already had mill spun. I started with Easter Egg Dye and instructions from this video over at Blonde Chicken Boutique.
Here is the yarn in the jar that [...]
