Weaving Alpaca Yarn

I have to admit, I haven’t gotten out my weaving in a couple of years. Since my husband and I are gathering information on raising alpacas though, my once passionate interest in fiber arts and weaving has revived.

Handwoven scarf from my table top loom

I learned to weave at a place called The Shephardess in San Diego and I purchased my table top loom there too. Over the years I created lots of hand woven scarves, and I usually added some bead work to them as well.

Since I’d like to do some weaving with alpaca yarn, I got on EBay the other night and ordered some alpaca roving and a drop spindle so I can start from scratch and learn to spin my own yarn as well. I’ll keep you posted on how that goes.

I love yarns and fibers of all kinds and made my scarves original by adding some sparkly thread to the weft and then some beadwork. Beads were my other passion before writing started to take up all my time.

Handwoven on my table top loom

Here is a better view of the beadwork I put on the scarf and also another handwoven scarf I made on my loom.

Living in Texas, unfortunately, we don’t need warm handwoven scarves as much so I’m going to try weaving some that are more light weight and decorative.

I only ordered 6 oz of alpaca roving, which I know won’t make very much yarn at the first go around but it’s a place to start learning to spin.

Now, if I can pull myself away from my knitting, I’ll get that loom out and do some weaving.

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