Alpacas and more



A couple of weekends ago I went up to Guthrie, OK, to see Donna Hilton.  Donna is the owner of The Weavery at Indian Meridian.  I went to see Donna because she has alpacas, roving, looms, spinning wheels and drop spindles.  But mostly I wanted to see the alpacas. 

 

 

Donna has several alpacas (I think she said 8), but she also has llamas and angora goats.  She showed me some of the roving from her alpacas, and it was beautiful.  Almost made me want to learn to spin.

Here are just a few of Donna's alpacas.  They were very curious to see these strangers who were visiting.

 

Donna showed me her shop and weaving room, too.  She was very informative, and I had a lot of fun.

 

 

Here is a small sample of the roving Donna has.  I love the colors.

Spinning wheels anyone?

 

All in all it was a great trip.  If you are in central Oklahoma and interested in spinning or weaving, you should make an appointment and visit Donna.  She is just a few miles east of Guthrie.

Oh, and I might, just might have come home with a 10 inch Cricket loom.  Just maybe.

Minty Socks

 

I have been knitting some, and I actually finished some socks.  These are my usual basic pattern knit on US 2 needles.  The yarn is Felici from Knit Picks in the Minty colorway.  Not too exciting, but fun.  I did not match the stripes exactly.  The dark gray stripes match, but I knit one sock with the yarn from the inside of the ball, and one sock from the outside.  Yes, it was intentional.  I wanted the stripes to be a little bit different.