Yarn Along

Hi everyone. I apologize for being so quiet around here. I can't seem to keep up with things lately!!! I guess it's that time of year. Busy, busy, busy! With the busy weekends in the farm store, I also had a holiday band concerts that I perform in. We finished up our holiday season and as much as I will miss playing for the next month, it's nice to have a little break. I haven't been knitting as much as I would like to, but I do have a few things on the needles and one off that I thought I would share.

I am knitting up a Georgetown Sweater using alpaca/merino yarn that I hand dyed with the help of my sister, Liz. I am working on the k1,p1 ribbed collar and I'm pretty sure this is taking me longer than all the other pieces combined! 

I am halfway through In a Dark, Dark Wood. It's a best seller...it's quick to read but I'm not so sure on how much I like it so far. We'll see...

I finished up the Prim hat. Knitted it with yarn from our farm. It's the Ono, Stone blend and it's AMAZING!!!!!!!! The mill that my parents have used the past two years is top notch and are doing a beautiful job with the yarn. It's uniform, beautifully spun, bouncy, soft. Perfection. I would like to get a fuzzy pompom for the top. I think that would make it complete.

Photos of the handsome boys that "grew" my yarn are below.

I have a few gift knits that I am working on too, so can't share pics of those!

Hope you are enjoying the holiday preparations. I have so much to do!!!!!! 

Happy knitting. Joining in with Ginny at Small Things for the YarnAlong.

North American Alpaca Show

Last weekend, my mom and dad took some of their alpacas to compete in the North American Alpaca Show. An alpaca show is a place for alpaca breeders to gather and compete against each other with their best animals. The animals are judged by color, age and gender. The judges look at their composition and fleece. The show is similar to a dog show. However, you are not allowed to do anything with the fleece. The primping that goes on at the dog shows is not found at an alpaca show. They are field to ring animals. Hay and all!

Here are the results of the Arrow Acres animals.

1st Place Rose Gray 

"Shushi" (she has a fancy long name but we call her Shushi)

2nd Place Medium Fawn:

MFI Out of this World "Spacey"- She is on the far right

3rd Place Modern Rose Gray:

Arrow Acres Stone

3rd Place Silver Gray:

Arrow Acres Mr. Bates

We want to wish a huge congratulations to our Smoke Ring's little sister for winning Color Champ!

That's the proud big brother below. CCFN Smoke Ring is a beautiful herdsire that is available for spring breedings. If you are interested, please contact Dee at 732-861-1385

Congrats to all the winners!

Sunday Stroll

Chase is in full on terrible two year old mode. 

To relieve the rest of my family from his whining we headed out during the Giants game halftime
for a Sunday stroll around the farm.

There were moments of smiles, and moments of a typical terrible two year old.

Check out the baby alpacas. They're pretty much the cutest things on earth.

My older boys having their Sunday football catch

Some of the girls grazing in the alley

Annaschea and Mr. Bates

Jatoba

She's the sweetest girl

This is the new guy! We're calling him Stone. Here with his mom, Spicy.

Hi Stone. Isn't he handsome? A modern gray boy.

Bocote and Arrow checking out where Chase is off to.

Here's Stone again.

The face you receive when your two year old doesn't want to walk with you.

And we're back.

Have a good week!