Hand Dyed Alpaca Yarn on Etsy
This week on Fiber Arts Friday we want to highlight our Fiber Arts Friday participants’ shops. You can link your blog if you want, but you are welcome to use this week as an opportunity to promote your Etsy (or independent) shop.
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Quick Announcement: On Black Friday (next week) – we will be having you link your store, Etsy or otherwise, to Fiber Arts Friday. While I love promoting blogs, this will give fiber artists who don’t blog a chance to participate in Fiber Arts Friday, and for us to be able to promote buying handmade for [...]
Announcement: On Black Friday (the Friday after Thanksgiving) – we will be having you link your store, Etsy or otherwise, to Fiber Arts Friday. While I love promoting your blogs, I know there are many fiber artists who don’t blog. This will give them a chance to participate in Fiber Arts Friday, and for us [...]
One thing I know my readers love is drum carders. (If you don’t love you some drum carding – click here for a baby alpaca being cute). When I saw this video from my friend Mary from Acres Wild Alpacas I knew I had to share it with you. Here Mary shows you how to [...]
This week I’ve been dyeing alpaca yarn and fiber using Fall colors. Since we live in the South, summers are our most challenging season on the farm. This makes Autumn my favorite season. It brings such a welcome relief from the seemingly endless hot, humid days.
What better way to revel in the season than creating [...]
Have you seen this? This beautiful tapestry was made from spider silk. It took four years and over a million spiders to make. They had to recruit “spider wranglers” to “harness” the spiders to capture their silk. Odd, but fascinating! Read more about it and listen to the NPR story. The tapestry is in New [...]
I had no idea that you could raise silkworms until I read about it in the Fall issue of Spin-Off magazine. Fiber enthusiast Michael Cook writes about growing your own silk. He says that you can raise them in a plastic shoebox, and that they eat mulberry leaves. I found this to be a fascinating [...]
Yesterday I voted for my favorite hand spun yarn in this Etsy Contest. Wow! It was a hard choice. And Inspiring. In the process, I visited lots of Etsy shops and added several to my list of favorites. If you haven’t voted already, please do! While you’re on Etsy, visit the Alpaca Farmgirl Shop, which [...]
This week I found this fun video on dyeing. Hope you like it!
Loved this video, and loved that she used alpaca fiber!
So what have you been doing with Fiber this week? Link your blog posts here:
Fiber Arts Friday Blog Carnival!
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Last week’s Alpaca Bunny Smackdown was fun, and it was great to hear the feedback from Vtknitboy about alpaca and angora. One of the things that I have learned this year about alpaca fiber is that each fleece has its own personality. Some are really shiny, some are really soft, some has lots of crimp [...]
