2009 Alpaca Farm Open House
Our annual open house will be November 7,8 & 14,15, 2009 from 12:00 Noon to 5:00 PM.? We have several new things for visitors to see.? There is of course the alpacas and this year we have our most exciting array of alpacas to view with the addition of Silver Ray and the fall crias to the herd.? An additional animal that we’ve added that you will be able to see are four Bourbon Red turkeys (2 toms and 2 hens).
We’ll also have a wide selection of alpaca products and apparel available for your Christmas shopping.
And we are very excited to announce that at this year’s open house (all except Nov14) we will be having “The Sock Lady” from Appalachian Sock Company here to demonstrate the use of a hand cranked sock knitting machine.? She will also have some of her specialty hand-dyed yarns available for sale.
She and her husband restore these wonderful machines to working condition.? This is how our fore-fathers got their socks, they couldn’t just run to the discount store and pick up a pack of 6 socks.
We can’t wait to see what she does with some of our 100% suri alpaca yarn.? We have an entire cone of it to use.? I’d like to keep some of for when I get a loom, but I can always get more if we turn it all into socks or something.? Actually she said the 100% suri alpaca wouldn’t be the best for socks so it will get made into something else.? You’ll just have to come to the open house to see.
We’re also hoping to get some spinners and/or weavers lined up to demonstrate those activities.