Crocheting the Asheville Reef, week2
Crocheting the Asheville Reef every Wednesday from 11am- 2pm at the Handmade in America office. This is a bring your lunch, drop in when you can for however long you can event so come on by.
Don’t know how to crochet, I’ll teach you! Supplies are provided.
Here’s a pic from today’s meeting.
The Laurel of Asheville has a nice article that explains the goal and purpose of this project, so click here to read the article.
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Louet has discontinued Riverstone and also dyed corriedale roving. I still have a few skeins of the Riverstone – email me (sales@alpacafleece.com) if you need some and I will see if I still have your color. Yarn Girls(DBNY) is the company Louet sent all they had left of both of these items to. You may also be able to obtain some there if you need to finish a project. I do have other wool yarns that felt well so if you are starting a new felting project, consider Kraemer and Brown Sheep yarns. Jean
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Babies are everywhere, this weekend. Desdemona was the first mother of the season, with a beautiful buff-colored baby girl born Friday September 3rd. Also, Guinevere is a first-time mother, with a little brown boy born this morning (Sunday, September 5th).
Below is another of this year’s little guys, Telamon.
Telamon
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We will have a table full of knitting and crochet book and magazines and bargain coned yarn at the Fiber Action Co Op’s Anything Fiber Yard Sale on
Aug. 21. This is the second year for this event which will also have spinning, weaving etc demos’s. All fiber enthusiasts are welcome, no admission is
charged and the event is from 10 am to 4 pm at the Washburn Center in Black Mountain. Directions are posted on the Fiber Action Co Op’s website(www.fiberaction.org) or call us.
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Before shearing….
Before Shearing
After Shearing
Erin & Brandon Greene took care of this year’s shearing for us. They and Brandon’s brother Curtis showed up June 5th with their table and shears and took care of between 20 & 30 animals in a day and a half. Mom & Dad used to do the shearing entirely on their own. Being the lazy daughter I am, I tried to avoid shearing like the plague. For Mom & Dad, shearing would usually last most of the month of May. This meant that shearing the whole flock in 18 hours was quite a welcome change!
While Erin & Brandon ran the show, we had quite a number of guests and assistants. The newest members of the crew were Clarke Merrill and Bob Benites, members of the local Orchid Society (another of M&D’s pet projects). Clarke and Bob offered assistance and stuck it out much longer than I ever expected, assisting in grooming before sending the animals to the shearing table. Poor Bob even took a full-on spit to the face, and continued to carry out grooming duties – what a trooper!
Linda Brier of Ever Thanks Farm and my ever-patient husband Travis both were also instrumental at keeping the process moving. From both Mom and myself, thank you to everyone for your help. It was probably the most fun we have ever had during shearing.
By the way, in-between being spat at and getting stepped on, Bob also did a nice job of documenting the shearing process. Above are before and after shots of a few animals, but you can see his full running commentary by clicking here.
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We've decided to downsize. You can click here to see our realtor's listing.
Many of our animals are for sale, as well. You can see that listing on our Alpaca Nation page, by clicking here.
