The Road to Alpacas

First stop: Web's in Northampton. Laurie had never experienced Web's famous warehouse, but she handled it like a pro. She emerged with only three cones and a ball of sock yarn. I exercised restraint (given my already monumental stash) and selected just a single bag of natural-colored closeout Jo Sharp DK for the dyepot. Well, that and some single balls of a few other colors. The cones of alpaca/silk laceweight in the front room, however, were another story. Yum. I also got a whorl and a copy of the most recent SpinOff. I have to make one of those sheep puppets!

The highlight of the trip was our visit to Red Barn Alpacas in Sandisfield, an hour or so west of Northhampton. Sonja and Jeff made us feel right at home, and Wotsie, my favorite little dark brown alpaca, marched right up to say hello. Maybe it's because we made the trip specifically to buy his fleece. I have his 2005 fleece as well, and will send one of them out to be processed with the black border leicester fleece I got at MDS&W. The other I'll spin solo.

Everyone had a good day.
1 Comments:
It was a GREAT day. Wotsie posed for you. Love the turning tail one of the alpacas getting bored and hungry, on the way back to the pasture.
I didn't think that what I did constituted restraint. Much.
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Laurie, at 7:16 AM, June 13, 2006
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