Happy New Year!
We have had a lot of weather, enough rain to last a very long time, sharp frosts, some snow and [...]
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News and updates from the UK Alpaca team
Belfast
We’ve had a full-on month with two big, highly successful, shows and an eye operation for me. The first Knitting [...]
Ally Pally, Fly Strike and Grading…
Back home pretty tired after a very busy Knitting and Stitching Show at Alexandra Palace with over 500 customers and [...]
Yarndale, Warm Hats & Cria
At last, finally thawed out after a very chilly Yarndale. The shock of a two degree morning after a relatively [...]
K2Alpacas
Joe Phelan, once a banker, now an alpaca farmer in County Wicklow, Ireland. K2Alpacas began as an hobby idea and [...]
Southern Wool Show
Last Friday was a bit tiring, understatement of the year, as we had to turn our Shepherd’s Hut round between [...]
Lucy Locket Land
Lucy Locket Land is a happy, friendly craft shop in the North East of England specialising in natural fibre yarns [...]
Bush Cricket
All are cria have been born now, 25 of them, 13 girls and 12 boys so almost 50:50. They have [...]
Shearing Of The Cria
As usual Chas picked up some nasty bug at the Festival of Quilts and then generously passed it on to [...]
Just Wool Textiles
Slow fashion is the name of the game for Neil Wildman-Whitten who makes hand dyed, hand woven and hand finished [...]
Gorgeous Alpacas
Our wholesale customers mean a great deal to us and we look forward to hearing about all the amazing products [...]
New Patterns By Tracey Birch
We've just added a number of stunning new designs from Tracy Birch. Have a look at: The quito jacket and [...]
Umbilicus
Bit of a fraught start to Thursday morning with a newborn cria presenting with what looked like a big umbilical [...]
First Cria
Well, well, no rain for ages so our ground has turned from slithery mud to concrete. We planned to fill [...]
Devon County Show
It’s been a very busy few days what with Devon County Show and shearing the whole herd. But the best [...]
Wonderwool
Thawed out now from Wonderwool which was absolutely freezing on the Saturday. My scarf and coat stayed on, still cold [...]
Mother’s Day Gifts From England
What better way to show your Mom how much you care, than to purchase her a gift all the way [...]
Zerlina
Lots of grandchildren around on Easter Saturday which meant the pink car came out of retirement for the two toddlers, [...]
Barbican
As soon as we had set up the stand for The Stitch Festival on Wednesday we went to the Barbican [...]
Unravel…
Last weekend was the first yarn show of the year for us, Unravel at the Maltings in Farnham. It was [...]