The only significant news in today's cria watch is that Chloe broke a toe nail.Actually, we're glad it broke -- now we don't have to trim it.General practice in the alpaca industry is to avoid stressing pregnant females in the last sixty days of pregnanc… more »

ETSYI've held off marketing my alpaca fiber and handspun alpaca on eBay because I see that as selling a luxury product in a discount marketplace. I believe that if alpaca is to be marketed as the luxury fiber it is, it shouldn't be sold as a discount com… more »

June, Cathy, and I have been having this ongoing discussion about alpaca and crochet. We've been using terms like "hard" yarn. Now the term wiry has entered the conversation.I have felt wiry alpaca in several circumstances. Mostly, I think the texture I… more »

Ipo's boot is off and her foot looks fine. She was supposed to wear the boot another week or so, but the boot came off on it's own. Other than missing fiber on her foot and ankle where she's had boot and bandage for two months, Ipo seems fine. We've seen… more »

It all started with this post on June's Two Sheep blog. June observes that crochet stitches tend to turn any yarn into a three-ply version of itself and make bullet-proof fabric capable of standing up on it's own. She goes on to comment about a bulky, h… more »