My Sky Alpaca Farm introduces ~ Cozy Creations By Sarah Goins

We are so excited to show you what we have been working on! We have been busy getting ready for the Holiday Market we are attending in Warrensburg, MO this week. Our daughter, Sarah, has been needle felting with our alpaca fiber. She is a full time student at UCM, majoring in Art. She is very creative!  She has handmade some really cute snowmen and brooches. She has been teaching me how to make them. I have been washing, dying, and carding the fiber we need. It's amazing, all the things you can do with this fiber! 

All Snowmen are handmade, needle felted 100% Suri Alpaca fiber!

Penguin & Tiny Top Hat Snowman

Snowman Family!

Here are some of the brooches Sarah has made. She needle felted the fiber to make the backs of the brooches.

More little snowmen!!

Aww! So Cute!

Santa Ornaments!

 

We will be working on having an Etsy shop coming soon! If you see something you like, contact us! Special orders may be placed. 

Raw or washed and hand carded light fawn Suri alpaca fiber also available for sale.  

We will be working on more handmade projects through the winter.

Learning to dye and felt our fiber

My daughter and I started hand-dying some of our fiber last weekend. We tried a couple of different methods. We used Rit and Kool Aid. I thought the Kool Aid way was easier. The colors turned out good. We are dying the fiber for some felting projects that my daughter has started. She is an artist and has started learning how to felt. She has come up with some really cute ideas. She is making snowmen with the felt.

She is also making some really pretty pins with felted backings. I have been washing and hand-dying all the fiber she needs for the project. We are going to have a booth at the annual UCM Holiday Market on Wednesday, December 1, 2010, from 4:30- 7:00pm in the Elliot Union Ballrooms, in Warrensburg, MO. So, if you would like to see some of what Sarah has made, or see some of our fiber, we would LOVE to see you there!

My mother, daughter, and I went to Columbia, MO last Saturday to The Columbia Weavers & Spinner's Guild Holiday Exhibition. We saw demonstrations of weaving, spinning, and fiber art. Also, hand-woven clothing, hand-dyed 100% Suri alpaca scarves, hats, gloves, and shawls. We had a really nice time. It really inspired us and was really nice to talk to people that work with and appreciate alpaca fiber.

I will be continuing to card the fiber I dyed, and then will be learning to make yarn using my Turkish drop spindle. Wish me luck!

We have been busy getting ready for winter, there is wood to be cut, bedding to be put down for the alpacas, some husbandry on them as well. Making sure all the animals are snuggly warm for the winter. I even string up Christmas lights in the barn during the holidays!  Our chickens have cut back on their laying since it has turned colder.
We have lots of baby kitties right now! They are so cute! The mother wasn't taking very good care of them, so we had to bring them into the house and hand feed them. They are doing much better!  

Thanksgiving is almost here,  and I have so much to be thankful for. God has truly blessed this family so much. I pray that everyone has a blessed and Happy Thanksgiving!