Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Spinning and Weaving Demonstration

This Saturday, September 26th, is National Alpaca Farm Day. I have been invited to give fleece preparation, spinning, and weaving demonstrations at Ameripaca Alpaca Breeding Company's farm in West River Maryland from 10am-2pm. There will be yarn and alpaca products for sale as well as lots and lots of alpacas. Hope to see you there!

Saturday, August 1, 2009

A New Store

After a long break, I am finally back to spinning yarn! I let far too many things get in the way; my other jobs, health issues (wheat gluten is not my friend), farm stuff, life in general. It feels so good to sit behind the spinning wheel again. I have two years worth of fleece to work through and plan to thoroughly enjoy myself designing new yarns. I'm hoping to be back at the Baltimore Farmer's Market on Sunday morning sometime this Fall. But, in the meantime, I am pleased and excited to announce my new Etsy store! Finally!

I need to make a proper shop banner, and I don't have much listed at the moment. I'll be adding things as I make them. Right now I have some lace weight single ply llama yarn spun from Paul's 2008 fleece.



The yarn is very soft, just like Paul. I mixed his red spots in with his cream colored fleece so the yarn has a pretty, heathery look. I've set aside a few skeins to knit into a lace scarf.


Things on the farm continue to go well. All of the llamas and alpacas are enjoying the mild summer. The garden is alternating mud with crunchy dryness but still looks good in spite of the weather. We even had a fun surprise -- a baby boo pumpkin seedling. We had little white pumpkins sitting around the garden last Fall and this one must have dropped seeds in the grass.



I loved having a pumpkin patch a few years back but it took over the whole garden and I haven't planted any since. However, it looks like the miniature pumpkins are small enough that I can safely add them. So far there is one cute little pumpkin on the vine.



I'm hoping it is ready in the next couple of weeks. If it looks nice enough I might enter it in the State Fair. Along with some of my yarn and our farm produced green eggs...