Wednesday 14 June 2017

"You Gotta Have A Dream ...."



I truly believe the lyrics of this song, you do have to have a dream. So I am going to "talk about things I'd like to do". My dreams have changed over the years, some of them I have achieved, and some I am still striving towards. The current dream, which I frequently natter on about, is to move to the country. There I will have a herd of alpacas, will spin the wool, still design my patterns, but also maybe run knitting workshops. My husband's dream is to have a small area of woodland, which he will stride around managing. I am not sure if we will achieve any of this, but as I started by saying, you do have to have something you think about when drifting off to sleep at night.

So perhaps I talk about this dream too much, which may be why my other sister-in-law gave me this lovely pure alpaca ball of wool for Christmas. The wool was from Bearhouse Alpacas, near Sidbury in Devon, and is doubleknit mocha. I have been working on this alpaca for many weeks, and in fact this is version three. Number one alpaca was too sheep-like, and Number two was really like some sort of mutant. So they both had to be unravelled. I am finally happy with Alpaca Number Three, but won't publish the pattern until I have tested it out a few times. So I am going to order a few more balls of alpaca wool, and get to work on creating my own herd.


16 comments:

  1. So adorable! Alpacas are the best. Thanks for sharing your dreams.

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  2. Best of luck with achieving your dreams. Alpaca #3 is adorable. Love that fuzzy yarn.
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  3. The alpacas all turned out much better than anything I've ever made using yarn and the third one is just perfect!

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  4. adorable and love your dream....sounds amazing! thanks for sharing on craft schooling Sunday!

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  5. Beautiful, does this one have a name yet?
    I'd be happy to pattern test if you are looking for someone, I enjoy having a knitting project on the go for tv watching evenings so just give me a shout if you want someone.

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  6. *SWEET*!
    I love working with Alpaca. Purchased a bunch on sale years ago... It's currently hoarded away in the "PRIVATE"-STASH!
    :-D

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  7. To dream is to live, you go for it. We are living our dream and would not look back. Love the Llama he is so cute

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  8. Your dream is so do-able and I hope it works out for you soon. There are several alpaca/llama farms around here and they are always gorgeous to see.

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  9. How fun to turn alpaca wool back into an alpaca!

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  10. This alpaca is just fabulous! Good luck with your dreams!

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  11. Your alpaca is really cute! your dream sounds wonderful. I think that would be such a nice life, and your husband would also be realizing his dream at the same time.

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  12. He's the cutest, I hope you can get the pattern finished soon! Thank you for joining The Really Crafty Link Party this week. Pinned!

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  13. He's just gorgeous and I totally agree, you have to have a dream. Hope you achieve it xx

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