Alpaca! It's soft, it's dense and drapey, it's exotic, and it comes in lush, natural colors. For Christmas I'm sending my mother-in-law an alpaca scarf. I added some Navajo Churro and some Jacob (both are Heritage breeds) to the yarns I spun for the contrasting stripes. The body of the scarf is naturally-colored alpaca blended with some Border Leicester lamb. Peggy's great-granddaughter carded some of the wool for the pink stripe. This was great fun to make and took a surprising volume of fleece -- 8 ounces -- alpaca has quite a dense "hand."
The decorative painting below is the endpaper from an Hena Khan book -- Mehrdokht Amini is the illustrator. I shot it to capture material for an upcoming project -- no reference to the scarf project, just wanted to capture it before taking it back to the library.
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| Handspun and dyed (by me) alpaca scarf. Alpaca is from Sherwood, a neighboring city. |
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| Bits of five different fleeces went into the scarf -- all are uncommon breeds raised by Willamette Valley shepherdesses. |
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