My Quill ~guest blogger Andee

Look at what I made!

 

 

I finished my Quill!!! I love it so much. I made with 100% alpaca. I bought the yarn at the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival. I got it for a great price. The yarn was a close out so I only had a few colors to pick from. They were not all my first choice, but I love how it turned out.  The body of the shawl is made out of rose gray alpaca (that color is one of my favorites). My parents have a rose gray breeding program going on at their alpaca farm. I tried to get Smokey their rose gray herdsire to come over and check it out, but he seemed more interested in my camera on the tripod.

 

I really should have had my cell phone to take a pictures of all the alpacas gathered around my camera and tripod. It was like they were the ones taking the pictures (but really I was with my little remote).

 

Little Miss Jatoba was a little more interested in helping me out with my pictures. She must have thought my remote was a carrot.  She is such a sweet alpaca.

 

Miss Aponi wanted to come closer, but those pesky toddler boys were rough housing too much behind her and it was just to distracting for her.

 

Sweet Lily I could tell wanted to get in a picture with me, but then she got distracted by my boys whining that they wanted to go home. 

 

 

So there is my Quill. I loved working on it and thanks for all the encouragement!

Tangled~ posted by guest blogger Andee

I was hesitant to join the May Day KAL. I knew May would be a busy month for me.  I started the month off with a trip to the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival.  It was fate that I ran in to Will & Jeff and saw their Shetland Triangles and I knew I had to make one too. 

But I've been busy as excepted for the month and knitting has been slow.

There have been two new babies born at the farm.

Then we had shearing day. I am so sore from shearing day. I have sore muscles I didn't even know I had.  But it is totally worth the hard work.  The alpacas are so much happier to have their heavy winter coats off. This is my alpaca Blue and his awesome gray fleece. I think I have to make a cardigan out of his fleece.

A before and after shot of another alpaca named Bing.

Plus add in a few birthday parties and BBQs and here is where I stand on my Shetland Triangle.

I have about 16 or 17 repeats done, I'm not really keeping track of the repeats. I got about 3 rows in on the edging and my center pull yarn decided to get tangled.  I spent 3 hours last night trying to untangle it.  Stupid I tell you.  I was tempted to cut it so many times. But well I guess I'm stubborn.  I am almost done working it out.  The party we were supposed to go to today got canceled because of the weather. So fingers crossed I will get the tangle undone and finish this up and on the blocking wires today!  Wish me luck.  No more distractions. 

~Andee



A Dusting of Snow ~posted by guest blogger Andee

Isn't it amazing how a dusting of snow can make everything so pretty?  This was the view from my back door this morning.  We got just enough snow to make everything look pretty, but not enough to made the roads bad for driving.  I spent the  morning at my parents alpaca farm cleaning pens.

 

The alpacas love the snow too. The colder it is the happier they seem to be.  Above is little Aponi. She was born this past September. Don't you just want to pick her up and cuddle with her?!

My parents are in Las Vegas at the Priority Alpaca Auction.  I love alpaca auctions. I actually won my alpaca at an auction in Virginia you can read about that here.  Anyway I will be spending the afternoon knitting my Leaves and watching the auction online.  It starts at 2:00 in Vegas so that means 5:00 here in New Jersey.  I am through Chart D once and on my second time through.  Fingers crossed I'll get it done during the auction.

Have a great weekend

~Andee