Santa and Mrs Claus have arrived on the East Coast

Santa and the Mrs arrived on Milford beach via the Mistletoe sail boat (AKA The Reiki Wake) this past Saturday. Coming from North Pole was quite the adventure. Santa says navigating the sail boat was a bit different then the sleigh. He says the reindeer's do the navigation for the Christmas eve trip. But they made it! They are here on the East coast. I'm told they have a few stops and some elves to speak and have meetings with about Christmas eve deliveries and then they will make their way to Oxford for one of our Open House Days. They will be here on Sunday the 28th about 12:30 pm. They tell me they have a couple of hours to talk to kids and take pictures so come on by the farm and visit with the Clauses! Dream Come True Farm 82 Freeman Rd Oxford Ct Open House November 27th and 28th 11-4.

Here are the other farms that will bring this holiday in with some good old fashion celebrating!
"Victorian Farm Christmas" will be the theme of Coon Hollow Farm for Holiday Open House. Come and join us as we celebrate the harder but easier times of the Victorian farm people. We will have chestnuts roasting, carols to sing as well as decorations such as strung fruits. Also on hand will be our Alpacas and Sheep, Chickens or just come and talk to Dawn about Beekeeping! Also on hand spinning, make a Holiday Gift Box from old Christmas cards and felting demos. Our shop will be open with many of hoilday gifts, fiber, yarn for knitters, soaps, felting kits, alpaca garments, eggs, etc. We are located at 156 Punkup Rd, Oxford. We will open Sat Nov 27 and Sunday Nov 28 from 10 to 4. Please visit our blog www.CoonHollowFarm.blogspot.com or call 203-881-1986 for more info.


"Alpaca Farm Holidays" will be the theme for Hubbell Farm at French’s Corner in Shelton (White Hills) which is an 1825 farm that retains its original barns and outbuildings, vintage tractors and farm equipment. Visitors can view alpacas, a llama and sheep and purchase herbs, herbal products, sachets, dream pillows, alpaca and sheep raw fiber, yarn, felting kits, soap and more. We will be open Nov 27th and 28th from 9 to 5. Also available is roving in natural colors from the farm’s sheep and alpacas and wool dyed on the farm. Those seeking additional information may call 203-929-2052.

"Christmas on the Farm" at Alpaca Hill Farm, 8 Willow Street in Seymour, CT. Meet our alpacas, Great Pyrenees, Kramer and muscovy ducks. You can shop at our farm store and buy warm alpaca garments, alpaca gifts and ornaments, yarn, roving, felt and other items for the holiday season. Enjoy a warm beverage and take a picture with an alpaca for your Christmas cards. Alpaca hats, socks and gloves are soft, hypoallergenic and toasty warm for the winter. Please celebrate the joy of the season with a visit to our farm. We will be open on Friday and Saturday November 26th and 27th from 10-5. Also Saturdays December 4,11 and 18 from 10-5.

"Log Cabin Prairie Christmas" is the theme for Dream Come True Farm, 82 Freeman Rd Oxford who will celebrate the holiday season November 27th and 28th 11am-4pm. Join in the fun and stop by and help decorate our tree by bringing an ornament and for each ornament we will donate .50 towards a toy for toys for tots. Visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus who will arrive 12:30 pm. on Sunday. Educational hands on displays, pictures on the tractor, demos and learn all about our sheep, goats, llamas, ponies and alpacas. Our shop is ready for holiday shopping filled with gift items including alpaca products, glass jewelry, goat soap, wooden treasures and lots of handspun yarns. Truly a knitters dream come true! Visit us at www.pamsfiber.blogspot.com or call for more info 203-736-2630.


"Alpaca Farm Christmas" will take place at Alpacaboose Farm at 12 East St., Oxford. They will be open on Sat Nov 27 from 11 to 4 and Sunday Nov 28 from 11 to 3. The farm features female alpacas and products made from their fiber. Spinning and needle felting demonstrations are planned. Those seeking additional information may call Ron or Rose East, 203-888-4695.


**In the event of bad weather please contact the farms to see if they are open.**

Holiday Open House on the farm! Nov. 27th & 28th

Look at those faces below! Come and join all of us on the farm November 27th and November 28th for an old fashioned log cabin holiday! We will be opening our farm 11-4 both Saturday and Sunday for you to come and visit with the animals, visit with Santa and Mrs Claus (Sunday 1-3pm) shop in our farm shop that is filled to the brim with new items especially alpaca products! Bring your cameras for pictures with Mr. and Mrs Claus, pictures on the tractor and of the animals. Bring an ornament and help us decorate our Christmas tree, Santa tells us that for every ornament he will donate .50 to the local soup kitchen. Come join us and each others for an old fashioned Christmas! Other farms will be open in the area celebrating a theme Christmas as well, brochures with the names of these farms may be picked up here.

AHHHHH, Fall!

I just love the fall! The falling leaves, the crunch when walking through the leaves, the smell of the wood stove burning, the happy attitudes of everyone in the barnyard. And best of all to be able to wear my woolen garments! I have been spinning and offering my handspuns along with the pattern for the neck warmer and really nice wooden buttons that Mike makes out of tree branches. Its a great way to try my handspun yarns and a really quick project that you can complete in an evening. I love the cinnamon color of Monty. And soft? Just a gorgeous feel. If interested in one of these kits let me know I can ship. Visit my Etsy shop and see all the neck warmer kits that I'm offering. www.Pamsfiber.blogspot.com

Weekend update!

Over this past weekend we went to the New England Sheep and Wool festival in Mass. It was wonderful. This was their first year and I hope that all the vendors did well and this will be a yearly event. After being there on Sunday I was inspired to do some work. A sheep and wool festival always does that to me. So I broke out the wild drum carder and went to town on it. I did 14 batts of some wild and crazy fibers. Included in this fiber list is silk, alpaca, sheep, angora goat locks, angora bunny wool, suri alpaca locks, yarn cut into 4 in. pieces, sari silk thread, angeline and embroidery thread! I think I covered it all! I chose the fibers carefully for eash batt, carding it only once through the carder so as to add texture to the yarn when spun. I then sat and spun it all up ending with 7 skeins of WiLd and CrAzY yarn. Works up beautifully with so much character, These are listed in my Etsy shop for sale. The yarn comes with a free pattern that was designed to go along with the wool Check out my etsy shop www.PamsFiber.etsy.com

Another Kit Together And Ready!

This week I soft spun some really extra BIG and chunky alpaca and Babydoll sheep wool. This was spun for the wIld aNd CrAzY neck warmer pattern in previous post. The yarn is really soft because it is spun from Betty my white suri alpaca, Monty My brown Huacaya alpaca and Jelly Bean my darkest gray Babydoll sheep! Spun loose putting little twist to keep it extra soft. The colors mix so well together, as nature intended. The kit comes with the pattern and the beautiful branch button which has the bark and has been treated with an oil to finish it. I love the neck warmer which is also for-sale and will be in the shop. I have a few kits available at this time and one already knitted neck warmer. They will all go into the shop today or as always I can ship them to you. Cost of kit with pattern and handmade button is 24.00' if shipped 4.90 shipping priority.

Yarn for caplet completed! And 4-sale!

I have finally completed the caplet yarn. It was done with a handspun sheep wool, bulky spun, hand dyed deep dark turquoise. I added a turquoise ceramic button as the closure. Washed and set the yarn, finally it dried! But not until I hung over the wood stove! The pattern is added to the yarn purchase.$32.00. This is a cozy caplet
(shown below is a sample also for sale 52.00. that is worn with ease. Another not in your way piece. Comes to the elbow and hugs your shoulders.




Open most weekends on Sunday, call to be sure. Closed for family functions etc. OPEN this SATURDAY 12 noon to 2pm, I'm going to the Fiber festival at the Big E fair grounds on Sunday! Please keep in mind I can ship anything if needed and will open by appointment anytime.

HUG me!

A real favorite! This my Hug Me wrap. Another easy to wear to take the chill away piece. It doesn't get in the way when sitting at your desk or working around the home. When sitting on the couch it just hugs you and keeps you warm. Easy to knit, its knitted in the round with a few decreases, and knit and purl stitches. I knitted this with smaller skeins from all the alpacas, sheep and llamas! I love it because all my animals are hugging me. They can give you a warm hug too! Pattern available with the purchase of yarn to make this wonderful little wrap. All natural, as nature intended it. Love it!

What is better then a nice warm hug on a chilly day?

New BIG handspuns

Today I dyed and extra BIG handspun yarn with the idea to sell it and offer the caplet pattern shown below. This would make a beautiful caplet I'm trying really hard not to ball it up and start if for myself. But if you saw all the hand knit garments that I have knitted in recent years you would say OFFER it in the shop. I also spun up a BIG skein of the 3-way alpaca, babydoll swirl yarn, all natural and extra soft! The colors in it are dark chocolate brown, steel gray and white all swirled together. I'm offering the WiLd and CrAzY neckwarmer pattern with this yarn and a beautiful handmade wooden branch button. I'm going to be spinning this BIG to offer along with the caplet pattern as well. Our shop we be filled to the brim (like its not already) for our holiday Open House November 27Th and 28Th. Hope to see you then or before. Closed this Sunday do to a Sheep and Wool Festival I'm attending. But OPEN SATURDAY for a couple hours, for your knitting needs! 12 noon until 2PM

I've gone WiLd and CrAzY!

Below is my completed project of the week. In the previous post you saw I got my new wild drum carder, which cards batts that are truly pieces of art. Carded together are pieces of yarn, embroidery thread, angora and suri curley locks, sheep wool, alpaca wool and angeline for glitter. A labor of love. I carded these batts then spun the yarn on my Ashford bulky spinner. This yarn is extra bulky, soft and extra beautiful! I knitted neck warmers shown below, one for myself, and two for the shop. I put together two kits as well, pattern, artf yarn skein and ceramic button which will also go into the shop. Im so happy with this yarn and the neck warmer that it produced that Im now spinning an extra bulky alpaca natural colored yarn that I will also put into a kit with wood branch buttons and pattern. This will also be offered in the shop. I hope you like what you see and will stop on by and see this wonderful yarn in person. If interested in purchasing a kit or neckwarmer and you live afar contact me. The WiLd and CrAzY neck warmers are 38.00 a piece and the kits with art yarn, pattern and ceramic button are 32.00 a piece. Open this Sunday the 31st of October. Stop by for some apple cider! It should be a gorgeous day for a ride to the farm.

WILD and CrAzY CaRdInG!

Wild Carding! What a great invention. This is my new wild carder from Ashford. Ashly also felt as though she NEEDED one! So when hers arrived, she came to pick it up and we dragged all the dyed roving, ribbon, yarn bits, locks and whatever else we could find to turn plain old wool roving into art yarn! I had plenty stashed away waiting for the new carder. This carder is able to blend in with the wool all kinds of scraps to create one gorgeous art batt! Which we then spun into yarn. We had quite the day as you can see. It was a lot of fun to see the batts created and then watch it turn into yarn. We both spun our yarns up and knitted neck warmers, that I think is one of my best pieces ever. I wont show it as of yet because I want to find the perfect button to finish this piece of art. I actually had enough of this first run to knit up two neck warmers. One which I'm keeping and the other will go into the shop. Check back to see the final piece. Also you must stop back to see the new alpaca products that arrived yesterday. More gloves with alpaca motif and baby alpaca brushed scarves that are to die for! All in beautiful colors. I just need to drag myself away from the wild carder and take some pics!! Enjoy the wonderful weekend, maybe take a rid eon up and check out the shop and all the new items!


Im going to need to do a demo of this carding one Sunday.
LOOK AT THE CRAZED AND WILD LOOK THAT COMES OVER ONE'S FACE WHEN USING THE WILD CARDER!!!!! wHAT A LOT OF FUN WE HAD, LAUGHS AND BATTS, WHAT ELSE IS THER? THANKS ASHLY FOR A GREAT AFTERNOON.


Oh waht a great invention!

The Witch Is In!

The witch is in! Stop on by this Sunday the 31st, she brought with her lots of new things to the shop. The broom was filled, she delivered more this week. She is now here to stay with us through Sunday! AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAEHEHEHEHEHE Open 11-3pm

Hope to see you. We still have beautiful foliage left here in Oxford, the ride should be beautiful!

Dyeing to be new again!

Well last year I knitted the drop stitch vest from one of may favorite sheep A corriedale named Susan who died the year before. I had a little of her roving left so I spun it up and decided I needed to knit something from it for me, to remember her by. Not that I would ever forget her, she was 14 years old and one of the sweetest ewes ever! I adored Susan, she was blind for two years before she died. So anyway I knitted this drop stitch vest and it was to long, I was not so happy with it. So this morning I cut 4 inches off! Picked up the stitches, knitted a row then bound it off. Then I decided that the natural white did not really do anything for the look of the vest either. So into the dye pot it went. It was about two min. and I remembered a nice little gray vest that I had knitted that was kind of blah as well so I ran and found it and into the dye pot that sent as well. Simmering in the pot I watched both pieces as they changed color becoming New vest both in color and for the one that I cut, in style. I love them both now and will wear them often!
What do you think? Im now thinking of other things I can make new by throwing them into the dye pot as well. By the way, on the needles now is yet another vest! A seed stitch vest out of rose gray alpaca. I find I get a lot of wear out of the vest becasue alpaca or bulky wool sheep sweaters are just way to warm to wear inside, and how many out door wool sweaters does one need? I'll post pictures as it progesses a little more.

More Fall Fashion!

Here is what the little caplet looks like on. Isn't is a perfect size? It reaches the elbow but doesn't get in the way of working with your hands. I guess I have been in fall mode because look at the colors I have been working with! Fall, fall, fall. Looks like the leaves in my backyard! Inspiration I guess. The neck warmers were a favorite item in the shop last year so I have been knitting them again. We have a basket filled with neck warmers, both in alpaca and sheep wool, even some angora bunny and sheep wool blend. Or maybe knit your own with one of our beautiful yarns! Off to visit with the woollies now. I have some carrots and grain bread to share with them. Oh how they loooooove this treat!