Big Rock Alpaca Farm

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?

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 p

ast, 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 hand spinners willing to spin up the fiber into yarn for half of the fiber. How it works is we’ll send you some carded fiber, in either batts or rovings, typically about 8 ounces.  Once the spinner receives the fiber we can discuss what to do with it.  Sometimes we’ll blend something with the alpaca fiber with our Howard Brush Drum Carder before we send it.  Other times we may let it up to the spinner to add something, if they like, they can do straight alpaca.  When the spinner sends the yarn back, we’ll send the spinner the same amount of the same fiber.  And hopefully another batch of fiber to spin for us.

We would like to have a turn around time of under 60 days, but this is flexible if you just let us know.  We don’t want to be keeping your half of the fiber indefinitely.  After about 60 days that we don’t hear anything we’ll look to be doing something else with the fiber.

If this is something you think you would be interested in please let us know (include name & address):