Spinning Alpaca Yarns

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After searching for a couple of years, we finally found our future alpaca ranch! The perfect piece of land to embrace the life of voluntary simplicity.

Enter the yarn giveaway by Never Not Knitting.

Fashion Designer Julie Nash uses alpaca yarn almost exclusively for her 1970′s style knit dresses and ponchos. See a slideshow of her collection at Fashion Week El Paseo on March 25.

So, Easter is tomorrow so it’s a little late for Easter Knitting patterns but I plan to get an early start next year! This year I purchased a bead felting kit from Alpaca Meadows on Etsy, which will also make cute felted Easter Eggs. I didn’t get a chance to make them this year as [...]

I’m finally getting around to making my first felted bowl. I found a list of links to free felted bowl patterns I wanted to share, plus some others that aren’t free but don’t cost much. I’m turning minebowl into an Easter basket, complete with felted eggs.

I used this same easy, lacy knitted scarf pattern for several different scarves and got an entirely different look for each one. Try this free knitted scarf pattern with any type of yarn or any size knitting needles and see what you come up with.

Here’s my newest knifty knitter slouch hat made with Sensations Angel hair yarn. I’m making this one a little different than my original knitted pattern.

Snow pictures from north Texas historic snow storm of February 2010.