Last Saturday’s Alpaca Farm Days + FO

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First two pictures are the peafowl at the farm. The peacock has shed his beautiful tail, but his body is still beautiful :). The peahen is dutifully tending her chicks which are now way bigger at somewhere around 3 months old. Now that it’s not breeding season my son says the peacock “less of a jerk” lol.

My son is having fun designing hats and scarfs for his farm store on his flat bed knitting machines. He has 2 electronic machines and I believe a ribber, several punch card machines, a bulky machine with a ribber and a computerized machine (that runs by itself, that one is cool as heck!) with a ribber. They are how, after a long day of mental tasking at his 8 to 5 job, his farm work and teaching how to knit on the flat bed knitting machines, he relaxes with the knitting machines and in the winter will do some quilting again. The magic of fiber arts for mental relaxation is amazing! He has an amazing spouse that helps him with the farm work and whatever else he needs :).

Last picture is my finished baby blanket, The Brick Work Baby Blanket by Gena Shaffer. Took a while to knit, with my off and on schedule to work on it, but it’s done and in the hands of the mom for her baby :).

Hope everyone is doing well with our crazy Nor’ Easter weather on the east coast, Hurricane on the west coast and all the rain that will be bringing from Texas up! Our farmers are waiting for it to dry up enough to harvest the corn and soybeans, but they might be waiting a while yet :(. Stay well!!!

Mail Call!

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I follow a yarn dyer Awenyddyarn.com and I had some incoming mail last week. I follow her on youtube (under the Awenyddyarn name) and Patreon and for supporting her on Patreon she sends out a few goodies. I thought these were beautiful! She has beautiful yarn :). What she sent was a pretty stitch marker and progress keeper and a mini skein from one of her magical misfits (skeins that don’t turn out like she expected – they are pretty no matter what she thinks!!)

This coming Saturday is Alpaca Farm Days for all the alpaca farms in my area, lots of people will come out to see the alpacas and my son will have his skirting table out for people to see what he does to the fleeces before sending them off to the fiber mill, and his drum carder will be set out with a demonstration, and I will be spinning alpaca on my Rick Reeves spinning wheel. It’s lots of fun.

Hoping all this rain is at least mostly done! Looks like most of IA is no longer in drought conditions ;), the parks near rivers in my small town have flooded quite a bit. Glad for the cooler weather the 90’s and 100’s were getting old!!

You all take care.