This past weekend was another fun weekend at Magical Alpacas with Roo and Nina and a ton of other alpaca fiber enthusiasts! I got to Magical on Thursday late afternoon, Roo and crew rolled in around 3:00am. The next morning we were up bright and early to start setting up the workshop area and the fiber buffet. We had a ton of fun dyeing some alpaca and working on carding it up to make products to sell in our shops. We took the usual tour of Magical & had fun with all the staff and enjoyed hearing some funny stories.

We all sat around & did some spinning/knitting/crocheting Saturday night & some wonderful new friends even did a late night cheesecake run for us.

We had an authentic Greek meal courtesy of Nina & feasted into the wee hours of the morning.

All in all it was a long weekend but jam packed full of fun & brain storming.!!

While at Magical I had the chance to meet an alpaca that I had bought her fleece from Roo at the Kentucky Sheep & fiber festival. Her name is MFI Violin Certo. She is a beautiful maroon color that occurs naturally in alpacas but is a very rare color and hard to get. After I washed her fleece up it literally felt like silk, so I knew I had to meet her on this trip.  Well wouldn't you know it, she was up for sale & already bred to have a cria in September. So after some negotiations the farm offered me a deal I would be stupid to refuse.  Luckily it involves her staying there till after she has 2 babies, and thus gives us time to build a female pasture & sell her first cria to help pay her off.  She is 3 years old & out of their herdsire Obsidian, a beautiful black alpaca, and is bred to Gathering Storm, a comical muscular boy. We are hoping for a dark rose grey female cria to be born near the end of September, and then we will re-breed her next spring. They have an 11month gestation so it will be a long wait for the second baby. We will get to see her at their annual auction in October that we are helping out with and are hoping that she has either had her baby by then or has it while we are there.That would be awesome. So without further ado...MFI Violin Certo