Saturday, February 25, 2006

Alpaca!

Today Erica and I went to the Alpaca Extravaganza! We met up with Jenifer and Meike and her Alex, and had a great time looking at all the adorable alpacas. There were also, of course, Things To Buy, like rovings and handspun yarn and handknit garments and alpaca-shaped cookie cutters. (No kidding.) Some of the yarns were beautiful but none of them really insisted on coming home with me, but I did pick up some lovely rovings for spinning practice: 1 oz. of red-brown suri from that handsome guy on the left up there, who goes by the name of "Reggae Rock-It," and 2 oz. of fiber from a llama named Kelly, a blend of her natural brown/gray and a bit that was dyed sage green. I can't wait to start spinning it all up!

The Extravaganza will also be going on tomorrow (Sunday) all day at the Boulder County Fairgrounds. Check it out!

3 Comments:

Blogger Chris said...

Fun!! Alpacas are just so darn cute...

7:43 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I assume you got to pet the alpacas? I'm telling you, I could never get tired of doing that. As for alpaca cookie cutters, I hope you bought some. That's just not the sort of thing a person should pass up -- opportunities like that do not come around every day!

How did your Olympic knitting go? When do we get to see pictures?

8:14 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I want to make a llama stuffed animal with those colorful South American weavings!

12:58 PM  

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