UK wool Alpaca Sock Yarn
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UK Wool Alpaca Sock Yarn

UK Wool Alpaca Sock Yarn now in web shop

Our new No-Nylon Blue Faced Leicester and Alpaca Sock Weight Yarn

This No-Nylon UK wool and alpaca sock yarn is a soft, bouncy blend of 90% Blue Faced Leicester wool and 10% alpaca.  We buy the fine Blue Faced Leicester wool from farms around Cumbria and the Yorkshire Dales.  The alpaca fleece is purchased from breeders in the UK and the fleeces are sorted and blended on our farm in Cumbria.  The fleece is scoured in Yorkshire before being spun for us in Cornwall.  The yarn is then dyed in small batches on the farm.  So, this yarn is 100% grown, spun and dyed in Britain.

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The tweedy bits in our new Alpaca with Shetland DK

This summer I bought some beautiful, crimpy, fine Shetland fleece from a local farmer. I’ve blended some of the fawn coloured fleeces with white and light fawn alpaca fibre and just sent it off for spinning. This is going to be a woollen spun almond coloured DK yarn with coloured flecks. The tweedy effect is obtained by adding lots of coloured nepps (or small felted balls of wool) into the fibre as its being carded. I decided to dye my own colours and here they are!

If this works well, I’ve already got plans for the next batch and the colours I’m going to use.

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The Tups in the field next to our cottage

We’ve got five Tups belonging to our neighbour in the field next to the farm yard. They are a bit of a mix of Suffolk, Texel etc, but my favorite is the Blue faced Leicester on the left. IMG_7632

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This photo shows his roman nose off nicely.

This summer, we’ve been collecting Blue faced Leicester wool from around the Yorkshire Dales, stretching across to Bowes in County Durham.  The wool from this tup is the only Lake District fleece we have got hold of so far, although I am trying to persuade my neighbour to breed more.