Alpacas of the Coast

I must remember to say a few words here more often!  There are always things going on here at the farm even if I'm being lazy and not writing about them.

I have three helpers lined up for Shearing Day, and I'm feeling fairly confident that it is going to go well.  I'm a little concerned about shearing Jovita, as she looks SO pregnant right now.  I expect a baby any day now, though looking at the calendar, her peak days start at June 21st.

I finished another 'nana touque' for sale at the market, and I finially finished a 'quick knit' baby afghan that I had been working on for-EVER.  The afghan is synthetic, and it is part of my synthetic yarn purge.

Today, I tried my first dying with Wilton icing sugar dyes.  I was dying the spun yarn from the mill.  It is hanging outside right now, and I hope to snap some photos in the morning.  I managed to avoid felting it, so that's a good thing.  I'm not sure I like how things turned out, but I'm sure that I will be able to use the yarn.  I did one batch by pouring three different colours of dye into the pot in various places, and then a smaller batch of a 'solid' colour.  Interestingly, the 'solid' colour still came out verigated!

Bella is 'alert calling' at something right now, so I had best go with Randy to investigate.  We've been so blessed by an absence of preditors: I hope she's just making noise at a cat or a deer.