{"id":107,"date":"2013-09-03T20:23:58","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T20:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2015-01-26T14:57:20","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:57:20","slug":"an-alpaca-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spindizzy.net\/weaving-blog\/archives\/107","title":{"rendered":"An Alpaca Throw"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the end of last year, \u00a0a colleague at work kindly offered me some fleece from his 3 alpacas. I said that I’d love to have one … maybe white please, and ended up with a car full. I think he gave me the combined shearings from the last few years! I managed to find a home for some of it with the spinning guild, but this summer I got another 3 fleeces! The garage is getting a bit full of alpaca.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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There are 2 brown alpaca (a Suri and a \u00a0Huacaya) and 1 white – which has a fine soft fibre.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In order to reduce the alpaca mountain and repay my colleague for all this fibre, I started work on something woven. The best parts of the brown and white fleeces (about 1\/3rd of the total is good quality) was washed and handspun, then warped onto the loom for a blanket.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The piece is about 1m wide by 2m long, with a simple semi-random log-cabin pattern. It is a very simple pattern but effective.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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The handspunwarp held up pretty well, though alpaca is notoriously slippery, and a few of the brown warp threads slid apart as I appraoched the end, and needed repairs.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Off the loom, the piece felt a bit hard and unpromising, but it finished very well, soft and fluffy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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… and I’ve just noticed that the chair that i’ve photographed the finished throw on, has an earlier piece woven in this pattern as a cover<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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