One of them was this "masterpiece", the evenstar :
This shawl was made from a 1st place winning fleece of a black alpaca and turned out beautiful.
On good friday this year I went back to the same alpaca farm and bought a total of 9 fleeces (all showfleeces) which I will turn into some beautiful shawls again this year.
I am currently working on the Rock Island shawl making in white alpaca :

I am also almost finished knitting the first thing for myself *GASP*.... I have made a rectangular shawl named Goldberry, the same designer as the evenstar. Very very nice soft darkbrown alpaca homespun yarn. I have to take some pictures soon as it is done.
On the spinning side of things I have a new wheel, I have sold my antique wheel and bought a Louet S10 whcih has a bit more options and works a bit nicer and smoother.
Currently on my wheel I have a baby alpaca fleece from the set of showfleeces, it is a very miraculour colour called Rosegrey. This fleece ranging from grey to a brownish red. The spun yarn is a very beautiful color.

Nice to hear from you!!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenHey, welcome back! I've missed the blog, so nice to have you back again! And I LOVE the Evenstar (I'm actually wearing mine right now :), it looks gorgeous in that dark colour! Did you give it to your wife, or is it framed and mounted on the wall?
BeantwoordenVerwijderenHugs / Jenny
prachtig!! :D
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThank you all, Jenny the Evenstar is off course given to my wife and she calls it her discoshawl since the 3000 white beads with silver cores actually made it crazy sparkly.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenI personally call it the Dark Evenstar and is only half the job... the Ligh Evenstar has to be made still... in the near future