Jenni and Naomi have both been spinning some alpaca. Jenni’s is an off white, beautiful and soft, and Jenni’s spinning is coming along really well. She is quite new to spinning. The brown alpaca was spun by Naomi for someone who has an alpaca farm. They did not really know what to do unfortunately so the fibre was prepared with the guard hairs still mixed in. Oh, dear! They were still really happy with it as they had never had any handspun from their own alpacas.
Looks like nice work girls……by the way, what are “guard hairs”?
Guard hairs are the coarse hairs underneath the lovely soft lengthy locks that we spinners covet.