Alpaca sweaters are now popping up in the offerings of big retail names such as the Gap, Land’s End, and J.Jill.
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Alpaca in Big Retail Names
Posted in Alpaca Industry and Business, Alpaca News, Fiber, Fiber Arts, tagged alpaca, breeder, cardigan, J.Jill, Land's end, sweater, the Gap on November 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
James Bond Cardigan Completed
Posted in Fiber Arts, tagged alpaca, blog, breeder, Fiber Arts, handknit, James Bond, knitting, Quantum of Solace, shawl cardigan, Tom Ford on January 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Pacablogger displays the final alpaca cardigan modeled after the James Bond black shawl cardigan worn by Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace.
Things We Love: A Wild Idea from Wild Fibers Magazine
Posted in Fiber Arts, Things We Love, tagged alpaca, breeder, color breeding, cotton, Wild Fiber Magazine on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Pacablogger, alpaca breeder of Franktown, Colorado, enthuses about an article on cultivating colored cotton in the Winter 2009/2010 issue of Wild Fibers Magazine.
Cool to Know: Why There’s Hay in Your Mini-Mill Yarn
Posted in Cool to Know, Fiber Arts, tagged alpaca, breeder, carbonizing, cellulosic material, commercial mill, debris removal, hydrochloric acid, mini mill, sulphuric acid, yarn processing on September 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Hypothesis of why yarn from commercial yarns is debris free vs mini mills, with a focus for alpaca breeders.
Cool to Know: How is Polyester Fleece Made?
Posted in Cool to Know, Fiber Arts, tagged alpaca, PET, polar fleece, polartec, polyester, polyester fleece, polymer, synthetic fibers on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A summary of how polyester fleece is made. Derived from www.madehow.com.
How I Learned to Knit
Posted in Fiber Arts, tagged alpaca, Fiber Arts, knitting on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How I learned to knit in Germany
2009 International Year of Natural Fibres
Posted in Alpaca Industry and Business, Fiber Arts, Information for Alpaca Breeders, tagged Fiber Arts, natural fibers, natural fibres on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The inaugural International Year of Natural Fibres (IYNF) is now underway. That should bring a hooray from any alpaca breeder who knows first hand how the unique qualities of alpaca can benefit the educated consumer. But the impetus behind the United Nations effort has more to do with the concern of global poverty and those [...]
James Bond x Alpaca
Posted in Alpaca Life and Musings, Fiber Arts, tagged alpaca, Fiber Arts, James Bond, knitting, shawl cardigan, Tom Ford on April 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There is a website for everything. The other night my husband was watching the James Bond movie, Quantum of Solace. He’s a big fan of Bond and, in particular, the new Bond played by Daniel Craig. In one scene, Bond is on a balcony talking to his friend, Mathis, and he’s wearing a black shawl [...]
Cool To Know: Just What is a Distaff?
Posted in Cool to Know, Fiber Arts, tagged Disney, distaff, Fiber Arts, sleeping beauty, spindle on April 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was over at a friend’s house the other day and they were playing Walt Disney’s Sleeping Beauty for the kids. It was approaching the pivotal scene where Aurora pricks her finger on a spindle and falls into a deep sleep. This had been one of my favorite Disney films when I grew up (I [...]
Cool to Know: How Is Soy Yarn Made?
Posted in Cool to Know, Fiber Arts on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s been a whole flood of new cellulose-based yarns on the market. They are often marketed , rather loosely I think, as either organic, sustainable, or eco-friendly. Of these terms, only “organic” really has an official definition. It would take a lot more research from seed to end product to determine just how sustainable or [...]
