Saturday Afternoon at Hubbert Farms

The sheep/alpaca coats arrived last week so I helped Kathy

with putting them on the sheep. Sailor was too big for his coat so we have to order another one for him. We decided to coat some of the alpacas born this year too. There is so much waste of their precious cria fleeces.

The bottom pic is a little treat that Kathy gave me. It's a very delicate and shiney, small amount of white alpaca . I wish I could share with you all how soft this is. Oh yes...this is going into my Alpaca Ontario 2010 entries for sure.

Excuse the messed up links...Blogger is messing with me once again :(

A New Sock Blend

I recently finished plying this laceweightish superfine fawn cria and silk. Buttery soft to the touch, although Spicey's not so sure.

Super long french angora, black alpaca, BFL fleece, red silk and nylon.

First I blended everything but the angora on my drumcarder. As you can see from the batts below, the one on the far left has the angora blended in layers along with the wool and alpaca....there are obvious neps.

Angora is so fine and I wanted to minimize it's passes thru the carder to one time only.

I tried a few different things but what worked the best was adding a layer of the blended batt first, stopping the carder, then lightly layering the angora by hand over the main drum.

It's a tweedy looking yarn but that's ok. This 3 ply yarn will be for DH's Christmas socks.

I have alot of angora but this is the first time that I have ever worked with it.

More Sheep Shots

This little ewe is my Gypsy. She is a dark moorit and has soft and lustrous fleece. I already snipped a few samples and spun them hehe.

Here they are, all the way from western Canada. The big grey boy (Sailor) is a Gotland/Finn and the two little ewes are actually his daughters. Their mother is Shetland.

Sailor is quite friendly and naturally polled. I brought them some pumpkins and squash to eat.

We are still waiting for the two white finn ewes. Hopefully soon!

My New Fibre Friend

This is little Katey. She now lives at Hubbert Farms. We don't really know what breed she is but she is definitely a crossbreed with maybe some Shetland in her because she is so small. She was kind of like a rescue sheep from a local meat sheep breeder that didn't have the heart to ...gulp...you know. He got her from a sale barn in Ontario I believe.

Soon (maybe next week I hope) we are getting the sheep that we will begin breeding! They are Gotland and gotland crosses and a couple finns. One of the ewe lambs will be my very own! Their wool will be perfect for adding to the alpaca fleeces for our new line of yarns and rovings. I am totally in luv with Katey as you can see...she has a velvety soft and sweet little face:)