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Hurricane Farm -
Tuesday November 17, 2009 - By Chris
We finally found someone to shear our sheep. We'd placed an ad and had several reponses, but people tend to get busy, time slips by, and before you know it the sheep are sporting dreadlocks. (And not the nice ones like Erica's!)
We eventually...
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Evergreen Students for Sustainable Animal Agriculture -
Tuesday November 17, 2009 - By ESSAA
A few nights ago I got to try carding and spinning wool. My friend Bailey has a spinning wheel and carders and gave me a lesson on how to use them. As if that weren't exciting enough, she was able to get wool through Evergreen from our sheep. I showed her...
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Hebron Farmers Market -
Sunday November 01, 2009 - By Shelly
The 2009 summer harvest season in Connecticut is officially (sadly) over. With Thanksgiving only a few weeks away, we believe we should express our most heartfelt "Thank You" to The First Congregational Church of Hebron for the...
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3 Hawk Alpacas -
Tuesday October 27, 2009 - By Anita
I have just returned from my first participation of the "Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair". It was a great experience and I was able to meet a lot of new and nice people. There are really a large number of fiber artists and enthusiasts living in...
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3 Hawk Alpacas -
Monday October 12, 2009 - By Anita
Hi everyone. I am now beginning to attend some fiber fairs.
My first one was the "John Blue Cotton Festival" in Laurinburg, NC.
There were food vendors, a sheep spinner, wood carver, purse designer, alpaca demonstrators and...
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Wool-E Farm -
Friday September 25, 2009 - By Ellyn
Wool Show 9-26-09
We are having our annual fall wool show on Saturday, Sept 26. Location is at our farm. Lots of fleece, roving, batts, yarns for knitting and crocheting. Batts for felting. Just lots of wool. Those girls are growing more as we speak. Hope...
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Wool-E Farm -
Wednesday September 16, 2009 - By Ellyn
You are invited to our Fall Wool Show & Sale.
Wool-E Farms & Heritage Farms
September 26, 2009
9 am – 4pm
1798-140 th Avenue ...
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Dutch Hollow Acres -
Monday August 17, 2009 - By lklik
It's Monday and that means our virtual fiber market is now open! Come post your links to your local harvest store, farms store, etsy etc. Connect with fiber shoppers!
To buy or sell fiber products please go to http://www.alpacabytes....
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Dutch Hollow Acres -
Monday August 10, 2009 - By lklik
FMM is back! Get more visitors to your local harvest fiber store by listing it for free at Fiber Market Monday's.
Just dye a new batch of roving or yarn? Show it off!
Proud of your fiber animal and want to show them...
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Dutch Hollow Acres -
Wednesday July 29, 2009 - By lklik
Felting soap is a great activity for both adults and kids. For detailed instructions and photos on how to felt soap please visit our blog at
http://www.alpacabytes.com/?p=205
We have many other fiber projects there too!
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Dutch Hollow Acres -
Monday July 20, 2009 - By lklik
Visit our blog and add your link to our Fiber Market Monday! This is our version of a Fiber Farmer's Market.
Show us your raw fiber, milled fiber, handmade products, fiber livestock, studs and more!
Links are free to post until...
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Dutch Hollow Acres -
Monday June 29, 2009 - By lklik
The biggest concern with novice fiber workers is accidentally felting the beautiful fleece they just got. Not to worry, washing fiber isn’t as scary as it sounds. You just need to remember one thing. DO NOT AGITATE . To felt fiber you need 3 things, hot...
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Dutch Hollow Acres -
Monday June 22, 2009 - By lklik
Card weaving is really fun, easy and portable. Depending on the design you are doing the work can move very quickly. The hardest part about card weaving is warping your loom. Here is a short video I’ve made on how to warp the Palmer...
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Fleecewood Farm -
Wednesday June 17, 2009 - By Susan
It has been a topsy- turvy year. Earlier, the rams eager to visit with their ladies,broke down the fence bordering the two pens. So we ended up having lambs born in the late winter months. We usually strive to have our births in the spring,...
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Breeze Hill Farm -
Wednesday June 03, 2009 - By MaLinda
Has everybody missed me? Wow, what a past couple of weeks! We've finally gotten some of the garden in, most of the sheep have been shorn, llama shorn, most of the fiber is packed and ready to go to the processor, filling orders at a much slower pace than I am...
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Oldhaus Fibers -
Monday June 01, 2009 - By Joel & Kathi
Ha ha... I've gotten YouTube figured out! Take a look here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6rBUPKdFqNQ Kathi's spinning at the Shepards Fest ... on Mothers' Day 2009
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Red Rope Farm -
Wednesday May 27, 2009 - By Dave & Kim
We traveled to Wooster, Ohio this past weekend to attend the Great Lakes Fiber Show. The 1st ever Tunis Wool Show was held there and we entered a fleece from our ram, Karloff. We won 1st place in the ram fleece catagory and also Supreme...
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Dutch Hollow Acres -
Friday May 22, 2009 - By lklik
Alpaca Fiber CSA
Welcome all yarn fanatics! If you like to knit, crochet, braid, ply-split, etc, this CSA is for you!
CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. Our fiber CSA allows you to own a share of our alpaca herd and receive yarn...
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Dutch Hollow Acres -
Friday May 22, 2009 - By lklik
Click Here for our Official Blog
I’ve always enjoyed braiding and have made many items out of alpaca by spinning the yarn into cord and then using different types of braids to make rope, leads, collars, reins, etc. What I...
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