Friday, June 25, 2010

Alpacas!

Given the photos of Sam at the bottom of this blog, I think it's obvious how much he loves alpaca wool. While travelling through Pennsylvania recently, I saw an advert for an alpaca farm! Turns out there are over a hundred such farms in PA alone.

We visited one near Punxsutawney called Flocks by Knight. Unfortunately, they didn't have any wool, but I came away with some wonderfully soft fibre to try - once again - to spin, courtesy of Lucky Pierre (he's the tall black guy if I remember right), and a bag of short bits (un-spinnable), which I'm planning to sew into a pillow for Sam.

Thanks to Tracy for taking the time to show us around!









Also, being a city person, I was just as impressed by the hay and the tractors and the chickens.


2 comments:

  1. not a big fan of llamas. They're pretty scary giraffes.

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  2. Scary? Of course, I've never met a giraffe, but the llamas weren't scary at all!

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