Silver Sun Alpacas

2010-01-19T18:32:00.000-08:00

Spin-A-Long (SAL) - Snow White and Seven Dwarfs

2009-12-19T22:16:00.000-08:00

Join Silver Sun Spin-A-Long - Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs

Contest, secret judges, prizes and a lot of fun

More details in my ravelry group

http://www.ravelry.com/groups/silver-sun-alpacas

Available in my Etsy shop for limited time!

SPIDER WEBS COLLECTION©

2009-10-15T08:06:00.000-07:00

I have constructed a new spinning fiber batts - SPIDER WEBS COLLECTION© .

These batts are soft, fluffy, delicate and feathery, Just gorgeous and will spin like a dream. They remindes me spider webs, that how they got the name.

The Spider Web Collection© is limited edition, when they are gone they gone. If you like a certain colorway and need a large quantity, let me know I’ll prepare it specially for you.All fiber are handpainted by me, with washfast dyes.

2009-08-29T21:10:00.000-07:00

This delicious, scrumptious tomatoes and beans were fed with "some" of our pacas black gold.

2009-08-29T17:15:00.000-07:00

I have been dyeing a lot, specialy alpaca yarn and silk.

Both fiber take acid dyes beautiful, colors are deep and profound.

Using citric acid instead of vinigar, less smelly. Same results.

2009-08-28T18:40:00.000-07:00

It is been so long since I'v last posted here, and so many things happend here at Silver sun.

Would I start from now and go back :) or the other way :)

Now, August of 2009 the last cria of this season came to the world, 25 Lb. of, huge, healty baby, mama needed a little help to take Mr. Giant out, but all is good, he needed milk supplemt for 3 days, till his mama understood what is going on around, why baby want food all the time. Well, baby pacas need 10% of their weight in milk a day. Today, 10 days after he is gaining weight in normal steps, pronks around with his girlfriends, and look for mama when it's time for dinner.

And he got beautiful fiber, he is curly as a sheep, he is a nameless cria for now, any idea?

Drop Spindle Fan

2008-11-13T21:27:00.000-08:00

This stunning yarn have been spun with a drop spinning by Desiree Bowman. It is a single, no ply, black fine wool with striking blue bamboo, from my Midnight Blue Serenade Batt.

Desiree makes fine fiber art creations, quilted wall art and handmade quilted bags. Her items are for sale on - www.Hamncheezr.etsy.com

Drop Spindle Kit

2008-11-08T07:51:00.000-08:00

Perfect Holiday Gift !!!

Learn How to use a Drop Spindle with this Kit.

Start your spinning experience and you will have your own handspun yarn in no time!

The kit includes a top spindle, 3 oz of white/cream wool Top Fiber roving, which is very easy to start your spinning with, and 3 oz. of hand dyed alpaca and wool batt (soft and fluffy as a cloud) Wool Top fiber and instructions.

With this amount of yarn you will be able to spin enough to make a hat or scarf!

The spindle is a top whorl spindle and is very light and easy to handle. 1.6 oz. 12" long.

This kit is fun for kids, too.Lovely gift for a friend, and for you, that always wanted but were never sure :)

http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5223921

Woodland-Treasures by kellykatcrafts

2008-09-18T22:06:00.000-07:00

Kelly is a member of my Batt club, she have just finished her first batch from the club. It came out beautiful. Kelly spin on an Ashford Travler and does a great job. She also make awosom stitch markers on Etsy , loved her pumpkin stich marker :)

http://kellykatcrafts.blogspot.com/2008/09/woodland-treasures.html

My batt is featured on sassas-etsy-treasury

2008-09-13T15:03:00.000-07:00

My Isolated pleasure batt from Alpca and wool, has been feaured in:

http://sassas-etsy-treasury.blogspot.com/
She spin beautiful yarn, check her out.

Thanks

Mette's baby girl :)

2008-09-04T21:59:00.000-07:00

This beautiful little girl belong to one of my dearest friends, Mette & Tom Gohering. This picture was taken 24 hours after birth, she is an amazing dark gray colored. I can allready imagine the yarn from this critter.

Mette & Tom owns a local fiber mill. I have been processed all my alpaca fiber with them. They are doing wonderful job. Highly recommended.

www.ranchoftheoaks.com

Tranformation

2008-08-26T19:41:00.000-07:00

From this.... To This....

A beautiful transformation of my wine & chocolate batt, by AnnieKints. This batt is made from alpaca, merino and mohair, Annie just started her spinning adventures with Hugh success, it is listed on Etsy - http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=14537372

You can see her blog - http://anniekints.blogspot.com/

Vivaldi's Aurora... again :)

2008-08-19T18:59:00.000-07:00

This is Ricky's daugther(Taly) posting again!
I figured I'd share this with you guys too... since mom hasn't seen it either, its a surprise. :D

Cute little video of Aurora being her hyper-annoying little self!

BlondChickn Interview

2008-08-16T09:16:00.000-07:00

I was interviewed by blondchicken 2 weeks ago.
Tara is a wonderful fiber artist. Her handspun yarn are amazing.
You can read it in full -
http://blondechicken.blogspot.com/2008/08/fiber-friday-silver-sun-alpacas.html

Thanks Tara

Silver Sun's Vivaldi's Aurora

2008-08-15T09:01:00.000-07:00

My beautiful creation was born on Sunday, August, 10 2008.
She is a TB charming little girl with white socks and face.
She is out of Spirit Song Vivaldi and Soliel.

Featured on kellykatcrafts

2008-07-19T00:31:00.000-07:00

Thank you Kelly for featuring my fibers on your blog :)
She is got a beautiful blog, with a lot of info.

You can see it -
http://kellykatcrafts.blogspot.com/

Silver Sun's Cassini!

2008-02-23T22:48:00.001-08:00

(Posted by Taly)

Born Feb 13, this guy was around 14.5 lbs. Tiny little guy, beautiful color, crimpy tight curls!

Out of our Lacey, and Galileo from Aragon Alpacas in OR... what a great match!

And look at those eyelashes!

This was a great picture that my husband took, and I can't help but share it with everyone. Enjoy the cuteness!

Valentine Baby is here

2008-02-14T18:10:00.000-08:00

Our Valentine cria is here, A beautiful Apallosa girl. Looking for a name.

Any ideas, anyone??

She is playing with her new boyfriend, who is 20 hours older than her. He is out of Galileo from Aragon alpacas in Oregon.

Alpaca video!

2008-01-29T21:35:00.000-08:00

I got a new camera, and what better way to break it in than having a herd of alpacas try to eat it?

Enjoy this little clip... and ignore my(Ricky's daughter!) silliness! :D

Lime & Violet

2008-01-22T07:59:00.001-08:00

On Saturday My etsy shop will be featured in http://limenviolet.com/blog/ .

This is great news. This blog is all about yarn, fiber and fiber art.

NEW SUPERWASH YARN

2008-01-14T17:11:00.000-08:00

This weekend the weather was just beautiful.

73' during the day. The girls (alpacas) were laying down in the sun. Specialy the prego ones.

and I was in the mood for dyes.

So, I have pulled out my stash and started dying some superwash wool. The results were pretty nice :)

Silver Sun's Batts Club

2008-01-12T17:18:00.000-08:00

My new addition to Etsy this weekend is the Batts club.

Does spinning or felting is your love?

Are you running out of fiber faster than you can spin it?

You like the feel of Christmas allover again, every time you open one of my packages?

Surprise yourself or a friend once a month by subscribing to *Silver Sun Batt Club*, where each month, you will receive a soft, cloudy, beautiful custom blended Alpaca hand carded batts with possibility to have the following add-ins of: silk, sparkle, sari silk, wools, soysilk and more fun fiber! The fiber blends in the batts will be my choice of fibers each month.

This is a great option for fiber lover to get every month 2 oz. or 4oz. of batts, made mostly of my precious alpacas.

Join in, or let me know if you have other requirments. :)

I dye all the fiber myself using professional acid dyes, and card the batts on my drum carder, the batts are prepared in a smoke-free home.

Nasty Weather

2008-01-06T18:29:00.000-08:00

The weather here (Southern Califiornia) has been very wet the last 3 days. The rain does not stop, the alpacas are in the barn, some of them prefer to stay outside in the rain, go figure.
Our natural pond is full to capasity ( have not seen it like that for 2 years :)).

Happy Christmas

2007-12-24T21:55:00.000-08:00

Silver Sun Alpacas is wishing all a Happy Christmas.

Scarf

2007-11-25T08:54:00.001-08:00

I have just added a new item to etsy.

A beautiful, soft and warm scarf.

Love the colors.

Ranch Visits

2007-11-16T15:28:00.000-08:00

Here at Silver Sun Alpacas We love Guests visiting. The little critters loves them too. They know that treats are coming there way (carrots and apples)

E-mail me at rcky3000@yahoo.com to schduale your ranch visit.

Antonio Inigo Montoya of Silver Sun

2007-11-16T09:55:00.000-08:00

This darling boy was born on August 30, 2007.

He got an adorable mustach. Lucky he is a boy. Can you imagin an alpaca female with mustach?

He knows he is cute and hundsome, that why he try to mount the other girls.

Alpacas Are Not Lamas

2007-10-27T20:09:00.000-07:00

Alpacas are not Lamas :):):)

1st. post

2007-10-27T17:15:00.000-07:00

This is my 1st post.
stil tring to figure out all the options around here.
More intresting stuff will folowwwwww :)