Once upon a time, there were three women, elliphantom, hapagirl (go check out her amazing new sock pattern!), and yours truly, who went to visit a llama farm named Yellow Wood Llamas.
They made fast friends with an incredibly friendly llama named Michele.
And brought home some of her wool–fine and silky soft, caramel-brown with bits of white.
The wool became singles:
And then the singles were plied together into a nice two-ply:
And the wool was skeined and washed:
and it became ever so beautiful.
(~4 oz./176 yards/11 wpi)
There was also a 1.4 oz silky black batt from a llama named Kona.
It looked really creepy, actually, like a matted head of hair, so it got spun up really quickly to avoid the feeling of a decapitated head lying on the couch. It was a little harder to draft smoothly, so it was a little lumpy-bumpy, and ended up as a shiny Navajo 3-ply (only about 42 yards):
And the two yarns sat waiting patiently for a handsome, charming pattern to come along and sweep them away to finished object-land, where they could live happily ever after.
The End.
Cool story! It’s nice to have yarn with a history
That’s too cool that you got to meet the llamas where the yarns originated.
And since you said the black hair looked like a creepy head, I could not resist recommending a knitted wig pattern : http://www.knitty.com/issuefall04/PATThallowig.html
That is one cute llama!!!!!
Great job with the spinning, that yarn looks beautiful! I’m looking forward to seeing what you make with it.
That llama is so cute… and TALL!
nice yarn!
that llama is very charming.
Michele is very regal and pretty and so is the yarn you made from her! (thanks for the forked-heel sock plug!)
Very nice. But now I have a vision of decapitated heads on couches. Thank you.
can you give me some ideas as to what you will do with those small amts of yarm? thanks
How cool to make yarn out of fiber from an animal you’ve actually met. I love how llamas look like they’re always smiling, too.