Alpaca, Turkey's, Pumpkins and Ornaments!!

Well, this was a busy week here on the farm for more then one reason. My new drum carder arrived today. The wild carder from Ashford. I will post pics later. I can't wait to use it to produce batts for spinning wild and crazy yarns! This carder will blend almost anything through it it, wool of course, ribbon, scrap tread, locks, scrap fabric everything but the kitchen sick as they say.!
The big news was the arrival of our alpaca scarves made from our mill spun alpaca yarn by a mill in Mass. 100% made in the USA they are 72 to 76 inches long! I just love all the stitching on these, yarn overs, to make it open for a bit of a lace look, garter stitch border to give it good shaping, cables, which I love and they are extra long! I'm very happy with the way they came out and just in time for the holidays along with our alpaca gloves. The colors are bark brown and fawn. They go into the shop today.



I have needle felting pumpkins and some adorable acorns (below), some with real acorn tops. I had a needle felting class here in the shop and the girls went home with a completed pumpkin, a few acorns and enough wool to needle felt another pumpkin! Everyone was happy, happy, happy!
In honor of the time of year you can see who else visited this week! Tom and his friends....They simply hung around the driveway for a while, then over by our hay barn. Then off they gobbled up into the woods! They seem to take the same route each day now so they have become daily visitors to the farm. I love when they come it just screams fall! Fall being a favorite of mine.




I have only just begun to stuff glass ball ornaments with hand dyed sheep wool, sparkles and some angeline for twinkle. My plans are another dozen or so. A little keepsake from the farm if you visit us around the holidays. Each year they can be hung on your tree and you'll think of all of us at Dream Come True Farm! Hope to see you soon. Open most Sundays 11-3 unless we have a family commitment. And as always open by appointment anytime, just give us a ring. Happy Fall from all of us at the farm

BIG Fall news! Lots more to come

Fall is here! The smell of fall is in the air, especially in the early morning and when I go out to feed in the evenings. As I walk to the animals to feed the crunch under my feet of fallen leaves soothes my soul. Im even smelling fire from wood stoves or fireplaces in my neighborhood. We have not lit ours as of yet but when I smell one I want to run right in and light the stove! This may be the weekend we do, I hear there may be frost.
The shop is full for the holidays, lots of new items and many skeins of new yarn! Truley a knitters heaven. I have some wonderful bamboo knitting needles in also. Sizes that go well with my handspun. Santa is coming with the Mrs. in November. I hear he may bring elves as well. Check back for details on his visit. Anyone interested in learning to knit or needle felt drop me a line. Open most Sundays 11-3 unless we have a fmaily function call to be sure 203-218-0508

We have been lucky enought to have Elliot make these wonderful inlayed stools for our shop. Elliot is 89 years young! Can you believe this beautiful work! We have one in our family room that Luke sits on all the time. I love just having it to display, it sure is a work of art. These will be in the shop as of this Sunday. The cedar in the stools are from cedar trees from our farm. Watch for the log cabin bird houses that we hope will arrive from Elliot.


Knitting lessons are going great! We have 6 new knitters! Our lessons are Sundays, private or learn with a friend! I am enjoying hearing about the new knitters projects. All are real enthusiastic and have sure sparked me to be knitting every spare moment! Great job Kathy!




All critters love when the leaves fall into the hay baskets, its like crunchy croutons added to their salad! Mmmmm

Fall clean up starts now and won't end until every leaf is up and out into the woods to mulch! Lots of work and EVERYONE is workning! Good job Luke. What a helper Pa has with Luke here.

Spinning perch

My dear very talented artist friend Scarlett, painted this chair for me. The chair was my daughter Brooke's when she about 7 years old, so that makes the chair 26 years old! I saved it in the basement all that time. I brought it to my friend Scarlett one day and asked if she could spruce it up for me? I left it up to her as to what should go on it. I just told her I wanted something bright and cheerful that I would use it as my spinning chair at my wheel. This weekend my chair was delivered to me with this wonderful painting on it. She turned it into a spinning perch, for me! I shall perch in this many happy hours in the years to come. Each time I sit I will take a moment and think of my dear friend Scarlett and the many dear friends that I have been blessed with. Scarlett has reminded me of that. This is very special to me and will remain so for a lifetime. Thank you dear Scarlett.

Tea Time and Busy Hands

What a wonderful fall day for our tea here on the farm. We had a nice turnout of ladies that came by to chat, drink tea, eat snacks and work on or start their fall projects. Those who had not started something for fall were inspired to start. Those who had projects that needed finishing brought them along to get them going again. We shared ideas, admired one anothers work and enjoyed one anothers company. Some needle felted pumpkins and acorns for the very first time. Here are a few pictures from the day. Some met new knitting friends and some connected with old friends. All had very busy hands. I only wish I had brought the camera out earlier to photograph everyone who had come by. Next time...Thanks to all who came and all who brought baked goods. Thanks to the one hubby Tim, who came to have a beer with Mike and watch the game! All was well here on Dream Come True Farm.

You are invited to a Tea! Please join us

Please join us for a tea, here October 3rd, share in our knitting circle. Even if your not a knitter but are thinking about knitting. Please join us. 2 pm - 4pm. This is an outdoor front porch event. Tea hats optional!

Thank you to all who attended! Your all the best!

What a great weekend we had here on the farm for Alpaca weekend. All the folks who came were so wonderful to come out and support the farms that were open for this weekend. Thank you so much for your support, we greatly appreciate it. Anastasia and Alyssa were here to demonstrate needle felting and to take folks out to the animals and answerer questions, we couldn't do these days without the girls! Here are some photos from Sunday. We had young shoppers, we had lots of folks learning how to needle felt pumpkins, spinning demos, folks enjoyed the display tent, made friends with the animals, the husbands enjoyed watching Mike turn bowls, we had guitar playing and most of all we visited with some of the best folks! Thanks to all. Wee you all at our next Open House in November! Remember open most Sundays 11-3 unless we have a family function, call to be sure.

A peek at the goings on today on the farm...Come on by! National Alpaca Weekend

Here is a peek at what you will see here this weekend! We have an educational tent set up with displays, of course the animals will be here to greet you, Mike will be turning bowls, I will be spinning and tending shop..Join us for a farm fun weekend. So far we have had the nicest folks come by, very interested in what we do here. We love to share our farm, so come on by..

Needle felted pumpkin class!

Yea! I'm going to offer needle felted pumpkin class Sunday mornings! Per requests. It will be alternate Sunday mornings from knitting. Time 11:30, cost 20.00. We'll felt a pumpkin together for class then you will go home with enough supplies to felt 2-3 more! Call early, 1,2, or 3 in a class. This will be offered right through November. Call soon! Maybe we'll do needle felted Santa's for November and December. E-mail with your thoughts on that...
Check the left column for class schedule and events. Happy Fall my friends.

Fall brought with her a bunch of raspberries?

What a surprise! Raspberries on the bush in September. Actually the first day of fall brought this handful of raspberries to me this morning Thank you Fall and welocme to our farm. Thank you Fall! I see there are many more on the bush that are just turning...Is it me or is the first day of fall a little late to have a crop of raspberries? I have lots of yellow and orange leaves on the trees all around me and red berries on the bush! Has anyone ever heard of this? I'm truly baffled..Mother Nature has surprised me again. One of the reasons I adore her.....Happy Fall to all.

Farm fun weekend - National Alpaca Weekend

Our Open House for National Alpaca Days is this weekend! September 25th and 26th. The following farms have worked together to put together a day of farm fun. All the farms will be open (free) to educate the public on small scale farming and raising alpacas among other farm animals. Displays,farm shops, alpaca products demos, and loads of farm fun. Brochures or farm cards will be available here for additional farms and their address.... Here on our farm we will also offer a knitting circle, bring your knitting and sit and join in some knitting and maybe meet some new knitting friends. We will also have a number of hands on activities to help educate you as to what we do here. I hope to see you. Farm On!And good luck to all my farm friends!

*Dream Come True Farm, 82 Freeman Rd., Oxford

*Alpacaboose Farm at 12 East St. Oxford

*Alpaca Hill Farm, 8 Willow St. Seymour

*Coon Hollow Farm, located at 156 Punkup Rd. in Oxford

*Hubbell Farm at French’s Corner 61 East Village Rd. in Shelton (White Hills)

*Simple Gifts Farm, 1135 James Farm Rd. Stratford

Bragging again!

Im sorry to be bragging again, well maybe Im not really sorry. Im jumping for joy! Another Dream Come True item has been chosen for the Etsy Treasury page (naturally beautiful itmes). My hand carded alpaca batting for spinning!! My alpaca boys are so happy with themselves too! Click on the title above to be directed to the Treasury page
http://www.etsy.com/treasury/4c977fb7ca5e8eefa2f2caaf/naturally-beautiful

National Alpaca weekend here Spetember 25th and 26th

We will be celebrating our love for our alpacas this coming weekend. National Alpaca weekend is September 25th and 26th 10-5. Shop open with lots of new alpaca products,educational displays, questions welcome, visit our alpacas and other farm animals.Bring your knitting and sit and knit, meet new knitters and maybe new friends! Join us for a wonderful farm day! Other area farms will also be open for visits, pick up a brochure here with participating farm names and addresse so that you visit these farms as well, making this a wonderful farm fun weekend!

You just never know..........

Opening today was great. It started out very slow until Kate and her firend Mary showed up! The girls visited with the animals and as you will see were welcome in the barn yarnd. Dahli Llama who doesn't let anyone touch him, he's a hands off kind of guy let Kate pet, rub and kiss him. He blew kisses right back to her and loved the attention. All the other critters were quite interested in these visitors as well. There was some great kisses and rubbing going on until Mary decided to come between Dahli and his girlfriend Kate. Well, as you can see he let Mary pet him and then SPIT! Yes, he spit. Not a ugly smelly green spit (thank god) but a spit just the same. Mary was such a good sport even while it brought a mighty large laugh from myself and Kate! Another day in the barnyard, you just never know with that Dahli Llama. Mary purchased some yarn to make a couple of scarves, but I did notice none of the yarn was Llama, hmmmmmmm...
I guess Kate told folks on the way out that this was the place to visit becasue wow, we got busy for the last hour and a half. One right after another! As always the most wonderful people stop at this farm! Thanks to all the visitors today! And a special thanks to Kate and Mary who really sparked things up in the barnyard! Anytime girls, and Mary please come back!

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Newest gift items!

Hi all, its 2 am and here I am. I just had to get all these little knitted squares in the washing machine to get them felted tonight! And in the shop for tomorrow! A little OCD, maybe? I have decided I would like to make these felted coasters that I'm teaching as a beginner knitting class for the holidays in all the holiday colors. These will make such great hostess gifts and grab bag gifts. A simple but useful gift. Here are just a few that will be going into the shop.