I’ve been busy dyeing yarn to prepare for SPA, Knit & Spin this coming weekend in Freeport, Maine. Here’s a selection of our handpainted alpaca blend sock yarn. Look for our farm store to be online in early March.
I spend a lot of my knitting time working with fingering weight yarn. Socks are one of my favorite items to knit and I also love fingering for shawls and scarves. Snowshoe Farm produces a lot of fingering weight yarn in 100% alpaca as well as in a number of blends. We’ve only been making…
We’re busy packing up to head to the 30th Annual Vermont Sheep & Wool Festival this weekend in Tunbridge, VT. The weather forecast looks like it will be a nice fall weekend, perfect for a fiber festival. Snowshoe Farm will be in the Animal Barn. We’ll have lots of alpaca yarn in natural and hand…
We love this little girl! Temperance is a young rose gray female owned by Twilight Ridge Farm (who took the photo). She was born and currently boards at our farm. We’re looking forward to seeing her in the show ring come spring. We think she’ll do well!
It was good to see a healthy and active cria on the ground first thing this morning! Yesterday’s baby is still weak and we’re fairly sure he has a health problem. But he’s nursing when we stand him up and the rest of the time he’s comfortably cushed next to his dam. This morning Cassiopeia…
Snowshoe Farm at Fiber Festivals We hope to see many of you at upcoming fiber festivals: Vermont Sheep & Wool FestivalOct 4-5Tunbridge, VT NYS Sheep & Wool FestivalOct 18-19Rhinebeck, NY Our online shop is closed while we attend festivals and will reopen later this fall.
I’d venture to say that most alpaca breeders don’t shear their crias until the spring following the crias’ births. But those cria fleeces become messy very quickly as their fine, velcro-like tips attract hay and other debris. We’ve learned that we can get much cleaner and more valuable fleeces in the spring if we shear…