I’ve been busy skeining and handpainting alpaca sock yarn in preparation for SPA, Knit & Spin in two weeks. Snowshoe Farm will be vending again this year at the Hilton Garden Inn in Freeport, ME. I hope to see lots of old and new fiber friends at SPA. I’ll post some yarn photos once the yarn is dry and reskeined.
Alpaca Yarn from Snowshoe Farm The Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival is coming up on Oct 3-4. Snowshoe Farm will be there with alpaca fiber products – yarn and felted sheets. This is the only fiber festival we are doing this year! We are no longer vending at Rhinebeck. Our herd is getting smaller and…
Finally! We’ve been waiting for weeks for the first cria of the season to arrive. The first female due was Rosita, who usually goes at least week or two early. Not this year. She didn’t even go first; her daughter, Glinda, had the first cria of the year. Oddly enough, both babies were born late…
Finally! Our online farm store is live again after months of inactivity. The fall fiber festivals depleted our inventory and we’ve been working hard to skein, wash and dye yarn. You can now purchase alpaca yarn, alpaca roving, knitting needles, crochet hooks and dyes from our online store at www.VermontAlpacaYarn.com. We will be adding patterns…
Our next fiber gathering will be Feb 26-28 at Spa, Knit & Spin in Freeport, ME. I’m busy winding skeins and washing sock yarn and hope to have time to do a bit more dyeing. I’ve ordered the needles that have sold out and put in a large order for Greener Shades dyes yesterday. Now…
Fall fiber festival season has finally come to an end for Snowshoe Farm. That means I can unpack all our boxes of yarn, roving, knitting needles, patterns, dyes, etc and inventory what we have left on hand for our farm store. I know I have a batch of laceweight yarn and one of our alpaca/merino/tencel…
2014 marks the 15th anniversary of the beginning of Snowshoe Farm Alpacas and a life more totally immersed in “all things alpaca” than we ever could have envisioned. It all started with our first alpaca, CT Tela, granddam to our multi-champion herdsire, Snowshoe Aristides. The purchase of our first alpaca was preceded by over a…