After a long deployment in Iraq, my sweetie, Jim Cocking, is finally home! Actually, he has been home a while. We’ve taken the last month to have a honeymoon. Kinda. As much as you can on a farm with a passel of kids and a herd of alpacas. So not much of one now that [...]
This is Daniel with little tyke Charlie.
Daniel loves alpacas. He only recently realized this when he came to work on our alpaca farm for a brief stint before heading off to the army. (Seems so many great guys are heading off to the military these days, doesn’t it? Strange times we are living in.)
Daniel admitted [...]
Louise Fairburn raises award-winning and rare Lincoln Longwool sheep. She loves them and loves their fleece. Why not incorporate her beloved sheep into the most memorable day of her life – her wedding day?
The bride wore a dress she designed from one of her favorite sheep, Olivia. Her groom wore a woolen waistcoat. The ring [...]
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 [...]
A few weeks ago we had a Beginning Spinning Class at our farm. Instructor Sherry Watkins came from Tennessee to teach us how to spin alpaca fiber into yarn.
Sherry brought Schacht Spinning Wheels, both the Matchless and the adorable Ladybug (which has a tiny ladybug on it – in a different place on each wheel) [...]
Thought this was too fun! Won a mug with the caption:
“Hoping not to be fleeced by medical bills, Luke Sheepwalker bravely entered the Death Star.”
What are some other good captions for this photo?
The Official Google Blog reports that Google has hired goats rather than lawnmowers to take care of their lawn in their Mountain . Why not hire some alpacas to mow? They would provide the same benefit. In addition, you can harvest their fleece once a year and they offer great tax advantages. Let’s face it. [...]
It’s the dirty little secret most Alpaca Breeders have. It’s the thing about us that Fiber Artists just can’t understand.
We have closets, barns, rooms full of fleece. Just sitting there. It’s not that we don’t appreciate it, it’s just that – for some of us – there’s not enough time to do much with it. [...]
In trying to determine what inspired me this week, what to feature as this week’s spotlight, I admit all I could think of was the FIBER itself. Probably because we sheared this week. But it made me want to pay tribute to the fibers that Fiber Artists must use to create their art. If you [...]
We shear the alpacas once a year. Since we do a large number (77 this year), it works best for us to have a professional shearer come in and to do it all in one day. Our shearer is Mark Loffhagen who lives in Colorado. Mark and his team travel around the USA and shear [...]
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