I think officially spring is getting skipped this year! We are over the hump in April and still having freezing water to break. Even worse, we have cold and naked sheep! This Saturday it will be the alpacas turn!! I will share some pictures of our newest adorable lambs though and try to suck it up, make the most of what we are given! LOL

We also have 2 boys, one from Flora and one from Fauna! We still have Abbey to go and that will wind up the lambing this year.

We are currently waiting on Misty to have her cria in the alpaca pens. Misty is bred to our handsome rose grey boy Nebraska so I am pretty excited to see what she has! Her grey boy last year, Barron, was so adorable!!

Spinning Suri!

I am trying my hand at spinning 100% Suri Alpaca and am VERY pleased! Inspired by an eyelash yarn made from Suri that I bought, I tried to create my own version of it with a HEAVENLY fleece that I got from Bill & Emi Koopman of Koopman Family Farm Alpacas. This suri's name is Windy and she has a beautiful mahogany colored fleece with a 19.4 micron so it is so nice to handle!!! I have only done about 150 yards of it so far but plan on making more! Here is a peak of the "before" and "after" pictures of Windy's fleece!

Homespun

I have been doing a bit of spinning and I wanted to share some of my creations with you! As you can see, I like the novelty type yarns with a lot of visual interest! :-) The one if the middle I am extra fond of. I used a fawn roving and I placed some of my cria clippings from Alagaesia's Heartbreaker (AKA "Lovie") onto it when I was spinning it. This is great as his fleece was SOOOOO nice but being his newborn clipping, it is tecnically to short to have it processed at the mill into yarn. I have done some felting with it but was really happy to get it into some yarn too!

Completed!

Yeah! It is done! Now to decide what to knit next!!!!

I'm going Continental!...(style that is!)

Yesterday at the Farmers Market I had the extreme pleasure of being treated by one of the markets sweetest visitors! Her name is Mary Ellen and she shared with me a technique that has fascinated me but I was never lucky enough to come across knitters that knew it! As I am sure you have guessed by now, she taught me continental style knitting! Do I sound giddy? You bet I am! I always struggled with the throwing the yarn over while juggling 2 needles! I had learned crochet as a little girl so all that extra stuff going on just always slowed me down and made me frustrated (it didn't feel natural!)! I have to say, I REALLY like it continental though! Purling is still a bit of a challenge for me but I am working on it! My first project with my new "skill" (using that term loosely right now!!) is shown above. It will be a scarf with some garter and rib stitching to get my knit and purls down pat! I will show the finished scarf hopefully soon!

Amazing Wedding Gown!

Ever since I saw this gown I haven't been able to get it's unique beauty out of my mind! What adorable sheep that made it too...kind of like short Suri's! :-D Read all about it here!

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