New Alpacas are Here!

There's nothing like a day full of new arrivals. Our fiber herd keeps growing by leaps and bounds and today we added 3 awesome boys.

Grey Hawk is a beautiful dark silver grey with a micron count way under 20 (It's 16 I think). He's going to make some fabulous yarn!

WileyWind is a med. rose grey male with a serious attitude, but he'll fit in just fine. He's also gorgeous!

And Gold Rush is a fawn colored macho man with some great color markings. Can't wait to see how his fiber grows over the winter.



Of course, boys being boys, they had to wrestle around a bit to say hello. Haven't they ever heard of just shaking hands? :o) They settled down after about 20 minutes, but it was an interesting time before that.



No alpacas were hurt in the making of this video.

My First Interview!

Thanks so much to Margaret over at Knit 1 for the Road!! She has given me my very first interview. I feel so loved at the moment and it was a whole lot of fun!

You can read the whole interview by following this link.

Thanks again Margaret!!

Crafty Friday 9/3 - T-Shirt Yarn Projects

Last week I showed you how to make T-shirt yarn. If you missed this fun recycled craft you can see it here.

T-shirt yarn is really fun and you get to feel good about making it since you are recycling. In fact, it's kind of addicting turning these T-shirts into yarn. I've been stalking my family looking for old shirts. I think I might be annoying them. Hehe. :o)

Now, what can you do with T-shirt yarn? I will admit I was kind of stumped with this questions so I did what every normal person does.....I Googled it!

Here are some of the cool projects I found. I haven't made any of these myself, but I found them at least worthy of looking at twice and thinking about making.

Over at Craft Passion I found this cute crocheted bag:

At Creative Jewish Mom I found the cutest place mats that are woven:

This little crocheted trivet was at All Free Crochet:

And over at Don't Get Much Better Than This I found a knitted rug:

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