#alpaca

Here's the back of the shoulder of my favourite wool sweatshirt. It was already mended when I got it, with this clumsy, unstretchy, mismatched English darning.

This is made of 100% alpaca, has colourwork designs, was gifted to my mother in the 70's. Very warm, scratchy, so you can only wear it when it's cold enough to wear a warm woollen sweatshirt over another long-sleeved shirt. We are finally deep into winter and I've been meaning to re-mend this properly since early last winter.

Here's my sacrificial practice piece.

Found a good tutorial but it was done with cotton yarn. Much stabler than my sweatshirt so going to be tricky to follow it without the embroidery hoop I think.

I have several kgs of alpaca, I shall spin as much as I just can this Tour de fleece

(Or at least enough to make these 2 beanies for these ladies who I got the wool from <33)