life... on the farm: Twist

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Twist

When I make yarn, I make a two ply yarn. Sometimes I have a little bit left on one strand. It just so happened that with my last two skeins, I had a little bit left of each color:

So I made a small skein of two ply color twist yarn. This one is 18 yards long. A very small accent skein.

I love having these twist skeins of color for knitting up product. A hat looks so sharp with a twist of color around the edge, or a strip part way up.

So add on 18 yards to my spin counter :)

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The Adventure of a Lifetime

Our farming adventure began with the purchase of 3 alpacas in the fall of 2007. This eventually grew to an alpaca farm that birthed 23 cria. While we averaged 20 alpacas on a farm at any given time, we hit a peek of over 30 alpacas. We were involved in every aspect of alpaca farming: from breeding decisions, birthing, to attending alpaca shows, and shearing our own alpacas along with making product from their luscious fiber (hand spinning yarn and knitting product). We participated in 24 alpaca shows, and became very involved in the alpaca community.

In 2013 we added hair sheep to our farm.

Throughout this process we continued to tweak and revise our business plan. Our business plan evolved over time, and in 2013 it became clear that our goal was to raise grass fed animals for human consumption. While the initial plan was for this to go along side of alpaca farming, we slowly came to the conclusion our adventure was going to take us somewhere else.

In 2013 we began to sell off our alpaca herd to begin our new adventure with grass fed sheep and cattle.

Our adventure is still unfolding, so please, join us in our adventure of a lifetime as our journey unfolds.