I process other folk's alpaca and llama fiber but there are some things you need to know before considering sending me your fiber. I am a hand spinner, meaning no major machines are involved.... I do it the old fashioned way with elbow grease and a spinning wheel. It takes time and hard work. As a general rule, with drying time and if no one is in front of you in line, my turn around is between one and two weeks (more fiber, longer return time) so please be sure to ask me when you can expect your yarn back and I'll give you a rough estimate. The other thing that I must mention is that spinning takes most of the air out of a fleece..... so it may look huge when loose, wiegh it and you'll see that there is alot less OF it than it looks like. You can generally expect 4, four ounce balls of two ply yarn from each pound of fiber. My spinning wheel bobbins hold right at or just over 4 ounces so that's how I count how much you owe.... 4 balls per pound so 25$ for 4 balls of yarn (not including label). 

If the fiber you send me has a lot of vegetable matter in it I just can't take the time to pick it all out. That will have to be sent back to you. There are two classes of fiber from each animal... the prime blanket and the seconds. The prime blanket comes from the saddle area and is the best of the lot usually. Seconds are from the belly, neck and legs and is generally much rougher and stiff with guard hairs.

If there is more than one color, I'll card and spin it as I come to it. If you want them spun seperately, you'll need to seperate it before you send it.

I charge 25$ per pound so I highly recommend that you only send in the good blanket fiber to be processed into yarn. I make a two ply yarn and the width of it depends greatly on the fiber itself.. Some I can spin pretty thin and others want to spin up fat and some what chunky. 

If I charged minimum wage for what it takes to make yarn, no one could afford it! I do this because I truly enjoy making something so very useful and something that you can't buy in a store..... Something that will become family heirlooms. 

I charge out going weight which is something that I think no one else does. I wash, dry, fluff, card, pull roving, spin each ply then ply them together and then wind them onto a ball winder. I pick bits of hay and such out during each and every one of these stages and yet STILL find bits I missed when I go to knit. I will also label them for a dollar per label with label design being my choice.... I don't mind designing for you but that's a separate job, takes much more time and so, costs a bit more.  

So far folks have been very happy with my work in both the spinning as well as the labels and I hope you will too!

 I am a foster farm for the SELR (South East Llama Rescue) and I have yarn that I have made from rescued llamas for sale that is very nice and all proceeds from the sale of this yarn goes strait to the SELR organization so if you'd like to see just how warm, soft and nice llama yarn is AND help out an organization that is sorely taxed for funds at times, please consider buying some llama yarn.