The 3 bags of alpaca fiber that we had hand spun a year ago by the people who shear our alpacas can be seen in the photo on the left. It was done on an old-fashioned spinning wheel and the yarn has a very natural feel to it.
The 21 bags of alpaca fiber that we shipped to A Simpler Time to be machine spun arrived today, and the yarn looks much more uniform and store bought. Both are nice in their own way, but the bottom line is boy is it a lot!
We inherited most of the bags of fiber when we adopted our three alpaca girls and have now finally made them usable. I'm not sure what we will be doing with it all, but it certainly looks like a lot of knitting and crocheting will be in our future!
Anyone care to teach me how to make this shawl?