I’ve been busy this week washing, dyeing and labeling yarn to take to the Southern Adirondack Fiber Festival next weekend. Tomorrow I pack up and I drive over on Friday morning. Hopefully, the weather will cooperate and make for a busy festival. Since the weekend is National Alpaca Farm Days, … Read More
I’ve been trying a new dyeing method this week and I love it! Dyeing in the oven. It’s so simple and less messy than stove top dyeing. I bought some large stainless steel steam table pans on ebay; they fit the oven perfectly. I use Greener Shades nontoxic dyes. I … Read More
In spite of the dire warnings about Hurricane Earl, the weather’s turned out to be lovely this weekend. The hurricane changed course and left us with clear, cool, breezy days that feel like fall. The term “holiday” is used loosely here. We don’t have holidays from taking care of our … Read More
Another wet day. The grass and weeds are loving this, but we’re not. The garden needs weeding and the lawn needs mowing. And wet weather means wet dogs – ugh! We’re hoping to get a break from the wet weather soon, but the forecast sounds like we have scattered showers … Read More
Today I skirted a fleece from a male that arrived at our farm on Saturday. Starry’s Rastban is his name and he’s a light fawn herdsire owned by Starry Mountain Alpacas and boarded at our farm. And he’s for sale! Anyways, his fleece is fabulous – dense and fine with … Read More
Only one month of shearing left to go! Let’s hope Ron’s schedule doesn’t extend too much beyond that; it’s time for him work on a few projects at home. We have fence to install, at least one shelter to build and many cords of firewood to cut and split. And … Read More
…is not starting out very well! We have a winter storm warning through tomorrow afternoon. Rain changing to snow and 2 to 6 predicted for tonight. Alpacas are in the barn where we hope they will stay dry, but know they will not stay warm. We’ll be shearing for … Read More
Looks like tomorrow will be a good day for the start of the Washington County Fiber Tour. Fiber enthusiasts should venture to NY and join our alpaca and fiber friends for this fun event.
It’s another beautiful day in the Kingdom! Cold nights and warm sunny days are perfect for sugaring, skiing and drying up muddy roads. The ‘pacas are happily eating hay out in the sun and we are starting to eliminate hay bedding and, hopefully, getting their fleeces cleaned up a bit … Read More
I’m back from a great fiber weekend in Freeport, ME at Spa, Spin & Knit. Depsite heavy, wet snow, high winds, power outages and such, many fiber enthusiasts made the trek. We arrived in Freeport at noon on Friday to almost 50 degrees and sunny – that was quite a … Read More