Goats, 'pacas and some fleece

I love wool but I think I might love goats more than sheep.  They have great personalities and the babies are very charming.  I think I've said this before, but if I ever get any fiber critters, it'll be pygora goats.  If you produce your own wool, you're limited to the breed(s) you have.  I like more variety than that.  Pygora can be spun alone or blended with just about any wool you want.  Plus, pygora fiber stays wonderfully soft throughout the life of the goat, unlike angoras whose fiber often is only soft up to the 3rd clip and gets coarser as they age.

I'm also rather fond of alpacas.  Don't these guys look like teddy bears?  They're so sweet.  Did you know they hum?  They hum when they're content, they hum when they're upset.  They hum.  And they're fiber is lovely and very warm.  They are, however, rather pricey so I'll be admiring them from afar.

Some of the Border Leicester fleece I bought Saturday and washed yesterday.  (The photo is crap.  I took it under the overhead light in my bedroom so it yellowed out the wool.  It's really gray.)  Ah, the crimp.  I'll have to cut off the brown tips to keep the gray color.  It'll be pretty spun up.   

Comments

[elizabeth]

Not much I like better than fleece porn - that is GORGEOUS! Silk-ee. Yum.

[Alyssa]

I just love alpacas. One day we want to have a little farm where we can raise them. But for now that's just a dream.