Our four male alpacas – our special boys and the first four alpacas born on our ranch – have moved to Ranch of the Oaks in California. Tom and Mette have a fiber farm and mini mill and we know they’ll love the fiber from our boys. In fact, I think Mette has been drooling over Sindre’s fiber since she first met him.

Tom and Mette are processing some of the alpaca fiber that had collected prior to the move. Some of the fiber will be processed to yarn. Others to rovings. Since I’ve never worked with a mini-mill before, I gave Tom and Mette room to make what they felt was the best product from the fiber. Oh, I gave some instructions and lots of suggestions – probably more than they wanted or needed. I asked to have some fleeces carded so I could spin them and I asked that some of the less soft yarn be made into something like my deconstructed sock yarn so I could someday knit my own work socks from my own alpaca fiber. It should be really interesting to see what Tom and Mette come up with.