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Good day Fiber Arts Friday fans!

I’ve been a busy busy girl this week.  Last weekend we started shearing our alpacas and got 3 of them done.  I also split the cost of some Unicorn Fiber Wash with Seven Spirits Farm and so I spent the rest of the weekend skirting and washing our newly shorn fleeces.   They are currently up for sale if anyone is interested.

I’ve also been participating in the Facebook Fiber Swap which has been wonderful.  I’ve gotten and sent out many goodies and this is what is currently on my bobbin.  It’s an art bat filled with pretty much everything you can think of minus the kitchen sink.

Here’s a photo of a center pull roving bump I dyed up.  It would make a fun yarn for anyone who wants to knit something up for a baby shower but for someone who doesn’t want to know the sex.  Is it a boy? or Is it a girl?

I also found time to finished my black alpaca bobbin, plied and it is nicely wound up in a center pull ball.  It too is currently up for sale on etsy.

Lastly I tried my hand at navajo plying with some white alpaca I have.  Ugh, what a challenge that was.  I had breaks, over twist, under twist and just a general terrible time.  Oh well, it’s finished and since I did such a poor job it’s not worth selling but I now have to think up a project for it so it doesn’t go to waste.

GIVEAWAY!!!!

I’m doing a Lollypop Yarn Giveaway this month!

Like our Farm page and be entered to with a skein of Lollypop Yarn! A $10 donation to Lollypop Farm (Humane Society of Rochester NY) will be made in your name plus you get a lovely skein of yarn from one of their sheep! (Drawing on April 30th!)

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Good day Fiber Arts Friday lovers!

What a tease all that warm weather was.  Bouncing from 80 degree days to snow they are calling for tonight stinks.  I was even planning on shearing early but I think I’ll hold off and watch the weather some more.

Speaking of shearing our Raw Fiber CSA shares are open!  If you want to reserve the prime blanket off of any of the alpacas listed now’s your chance!  The shares close when they are all sold our or on June 9th.  Whichever comes first.

I’ve been spinning!  Yippy so much fun and relaxing.  I even was able to drag my work out onto the front porch and watch the alpacas mow my lawn for me.

This week I’ve been working off of some batts that Seven Spirits Farm carded for me from 2 of my alpacas.  Alejandro and Crystal I think.  Pillowy clouds of super soft fiber and it has been a dream to spin!  I can definitely tell the Accoyo difference in their fleeces.   Super fine, very dense, and with the crimp Alejandro’s fleece has spring to it like a sheep!  I’m so thrilled to have them both in my breeding program.  FYI if anyone wants a driveby breeding special there’s still 1 day left to our March madness deal.  Only $250 to breed to Alejandro!  Whoot!

I’ve been trying to get back into crochet but cannot find a project that agrees with me.  I started up to 5 different projects yesterday only to rip every single one of them out.  Here’s the latest mess. Blah

So while the alpacas were mowing my lawn they also decided to do some trimming of my snowball bush.   It was getting a little gigantic anyway so I don’t mind the work they’ve done.