There is a lot of catching up to do. Much has changed since I was last writing regularly. My wife is the author of ScrappyPam. She is into papercraft, not fiber. A while back, in an effort to merge our hobbies and provide material for her craft, I start… more »

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 »

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 »