Thank you for taking the time out of your exciting day to comment. It's nice to know that our time spent watching paint dry is useful. I have a REALLY exciting video coming out soon that you will love: 'Hand cleaning hay out of an old fleece'. You are going to LOVE that one. Bring popcorn! Blessings to you and all

Hello again.We just finished painting our little house, and we were watching the paint dry with great anticipation to see if the color was right, and laughing at our excitement over it. But, I got two pygora bucks last November that were not yet a year old, never shorn. I waited til May to hire an expert to shear the fleece. One has a soft, curly, fluffy fleece. The other has a curlier, sticky fleece that gets dusty easily and is very shiny. I hope you don't mind my telling you this because I have a fascination with this subject of processing and using natural fibers, and basically I know nothing, not even the terms. The fleeces are growing very nicely again and I run my fingers through them as much as the idiots allow me. They are criminally insane and have horns. The fleeces I got in May are mostly filthy, and a lot was matted when I got them. The shearer told me they were matted. I was not afraid to handle the fleeces and recently I began to pick through them for long softer locks, which are 7 to 10" long. I cut out shorter sticky curls. I found some fluffy stuff. I play at things like a child in order to acquaint myself with a new thing . So, thank you for your instructional videos. I appreciate the help. When I first saw the dirty fleece, I envisioned making my first baby sweater all filthy and stinky and full of hay and balls of you-know-what hanging off it.

The 'Build Your Own' plans are selling well, so I expect there will be quite a few concrete mixers receiving a makeover this winter. All sales help to look after the rescued llamas and alpacas in Llamas in the Raw Sanctuary www.fabinbc.com

Are you still in business raising alpaca and llamas? Thank you for sharing your creativity.

@@ilanasharon30 You are welcome Sharon We don't raise llamas or alpacas. We are a Sanctuary which rescues them; the largest in Canada. We make the plans to raise funds for the llamas and alpacas in our care. You can see more about our loved ones llamasanctuary dot com

I place a large handful of alpaca into a metal egg basket and blow the vm and dust with a small air compressor. It does a fantastic job in no time. I wear a face mask for protection from the cloud of dust. A hair dryer with a metal, plastic or wire container would certainly work.

You are correct. I was intending to use 3/4 inch screen, but it was unavailable locally, so I used the largest available, which was 5/8 inch. In the downloadable plans available from our website www.fabinbc.com the larger screen is recommended, but the slightly smaller screen does a great job of getting the second cuts out and keeping the longer fibres in. If you are dealing mostly in short fibres, then use the 5/8 inch screen.

No. At the present time, we do not sell the llama fiber.

FibreArtsBootcamp Is there anyway to know when you do?

hunterkono824 If you subscribe to our website www.fabinbc.com (we don't bombard readers with lots of emails !!) we will make the announcement there, but I am certain it won't be this year, since all energies are directed into moving The Llama Sanctuary to new premises. There'll be lots of whoopin' and hollerin' when we do reach that point, for sure:-)

FibreArtsBootcamp Thank you.

Depends how big the bugs are where you live!! We don't get many bugs in the first place, but if the bugs don't go through the 5/8" mesh of the drum, then I don't want to play with those bugs!

The llama wool i from CO and the bugs are dead lice.