MAPACA Jubilee is coming up April 8-10, 2011.  This is the 15th year of celebrating the jubilee with alpaca, fiber and fun.  The schedule is packed full of activities for everyone.

One of the new features we like this year is the MAPACA Member store.  It’s an area designated for farms to consign products made with fiber from their own herds.  This will be the debut of our Handspun ROX yarn.  This is the yarn created through our hand spinning offer.  We have been getting beautiful yarn back from hand spinners across North America.

After MAPACA the yarn will be available at our online shop and other events that Big Rock Alpaca Farm does.

Here are a couple shots of the hand spun yarn we will be offering at MAPACA.

When:  November 13,14 and 20, 21 2010  12:00 Noon to 5:00 PM all days.

Where:  Big Rock Alpaca Farm
186 Big Rock Road
East Berlin, PA  17316

We plan to have a lot of exciting things going on at our open house this year.

As if Peekaboo and Thunder Storm aren’t enough to come see, here are some of the things we’ll have:

• A tractor pulled hayride
• Bourbon red turkeys and guineas to view
• Antique tractors for viewing
• Hand spinners spinning alpaca fiber
• The Sock Lady with her antique sock knitting machine (Sundays Only)
• Jeannas Passions, Homemade soaps, lotions, lipcare and bath products
• Our farm store

As we get more details pulled together I’ll update this page.

Information on the hand spinning offer has been moved to its own page.

Are you a hand spinner that loves trying different things? Hand spinning with different blends of fiber? Maybe hand spinning some hand dyed fiber to see how it turns out?

Hand spinning wheel

We would like to see how our alpaca fiber blends with other fibers and how it dyes. We just don’t have the time to do the hand spinning to use up our fiber. We could send it out to get processed, as we’ve done in the past, but we’d like to see some more variety.  Even getting it processed at a mini mill means we’d get 4+ pounds of the same thing.  We’d like to get 3 or 4 skeins of something unique.  We may either sell it in our shop, online or in person, or use it in a craft.

What we would like to do is find a couple hand spinners willing to spin up the fiber into yarn for half of the fiber. How it would work is we’ll wash, card and blend the fiber into bats on our Howard Brush Drum Carder.  We’ll send you half of the fiber blend to spin for us and after you send it back we’ll send you the other half with which you can do whatever you like.

This is something new, for us, that we’re trying so we’re open to working with your ideas if your willing to the work with us and give us suggestions.

If this is something you think you would be interested in please let us know:

Online store now open!

As a grand opening special we’re offering these alpaca skier hats for $18.00 each, normally they sell for $22.00 each.? This great price on this great hat is available for a limited time.

Colorful lined alpaca skier hat Colorful lined alpaca skier hat

These fleece lined alpaca skier hats are lined with super soft fleece covered with 100% alpaca in colorful patterns.? The brim is a traditional roll up.? Hit the slopes this winter with this great hat keeping your head toasty warm.? Adult sizes in two different color themes, blue or green.

Click on the title line of the post or here for the opportunity to order.

[Note:  12/21/09,  Special over, price changed back to $22.00]