I’ve been busy dyeing and painting yarn for our fall fiber festivals. Here’s a peek at what we’ll be offering this weekend at the Southern Adirondack Fiber Festival: alpaca-blend sock yarn (alpaca, merino and nylon). I can’t wait to knit myself a pair of new socks!
Seems like we just finished up with spring shows! Where did summer go?? We finally managed to complete our registrations for the upcoming fall alpaca shows. Snowshoe Farm will be attending both the Green Mountain Alpacas Fall Spectacular on Oct 19 & 20 and the Empire Alpaca Extravaganza on Oct 26 & 27. We (Ron, actually)…
We had a great visit yesterday with a busload of USDA FAS folks. Now back to business and getting packed up for our first fiber festival of the season. Fall is a really busy time for both fiber fests and alpaca shows. We start off this weekend with the Southern Adirondack Fiber Festival in Greenwich,…
It look like it’s going to be a great weekend for PAMfest, the Peacham Acoustic Music Festival, this coming Friday and Saturday, Aug 16 & 17. The Festival includes a Craft Fair on Saturday from 10am to 4pm. Snowshoe Farm will be vending at the Craft Fair with a great selection of alpaca yarns. Please…
This weekend is our last alpaca show of the season. Ron is in Syracuse with three alpacas, including Snowshoe Aristides, our white male color champion. We’re hoping for another good showing for Ari! Back at the farm, it’s time to clean up and prepare for winter. We’ve been working on the gardens and trying to…
A news crew from News 7 at Lyndon State College was here today for shearing. You can check out the broadcast at: http://www.lyndonstate.edu/news7/ Just look for today’s date in the archives. You’ll have to wait through the news and weather. The students do a great job and are very professional!
We received histogram results (fiber test data) for our yearling males. All seven tests came back under 20 microns – with the lowest at 13.8! That’s some fine, fine fiber! We also had Aristides, our 3 year old champion herdsire, tested and his histogram is 18.5/3.8/20.7/0.6! And his fleece weight was 11 lbs! The boys…
Hi!
We met late yesterday eve at the Southern Adirondack Fiber Festival. Your yarns are AMAZING!
Please email me when you get settled in so I can get some yarn for that baby sweater!
See ya,
Sara Kingsbury