At the end of February, David Smith wrote: Enjoyed your blog. Where do you have your alpacas? I have 6 alpacas here in Huntsville. Hope to see you in next weekend at the show. I will be showing one or my alapacas. He is referring to the the South… more »

In this post, I am supposed to show you the second onion dome hat -- the follow-up to this post. It's not happening today, and there will be no pictures. There have been setbacks. Version 2 was worked in a heavier, black, alpaca yarn -- millspun… more »

I used this scarf as my travel project for my Wisconsin trip. I originally purchased the yarn over a year ago thinking I would use a double-ended crochet technique (crochet knit) involving this yarn and some dark brown handspun alpaca. After additional c… more »

I'm still making progress on the project that won't die never ending project. I thought I would have everything finished by now and the yarn delivered, but a sudden trip to the great wintery north intervened. This is the yarn I spun from Anna's fi… more »

A number of years ago, at a fiber show, I saw a handspinner who had tied all her leftover single-ply yarns together and plied them to make a skein of odds and ends yarn. She said the technique was really popular. I recall thinking it had a lot of potenti… more »

As I've mentioned previously, I spent several weeks in Wisconsin this winter. On my return home, Pam picked me up at the airport. My flight had been delayed -- the usual, bad weather in Atlanta -- so we were late. Pam was slightly distracted, but I put t… more »

I need to acknowledge some comments that were posted while I was in Wisconsin for a time this winter. On February 3, in response to my "I've Been Spinning" post, Jody wrote: That yarn has a nice looking sheen to it. I knit alot with my alpaca hands… more »

Today's post was supposed to be on other topics, but mother nature intervened. For the record, these pictures are taken March 1, 2009 at a Harvest, Alabama address. This is real. This is natural. We did not rent the local snow machine. Ju… more »

I returned about a week ago from an unexpected several-week stay in Wisconsin. While I am adjusted to Alabama winters (see the first line of this post), a proper handspinning alpaca owner does not miss the opportunity to test his wares in a proper climat… more »

It's too cold to do anything outside. Ok, so I'm two years into Alabama winters and already I've turned into a weather wimp. By Alabama standards, it is too cold to do anything outside, and we've had one day that was pretty cold even by Wisconsin standar… more »