Quote Originally Posted by kimlovescats
What a fluffy cutie! What do you use alpacos for? Do they provide some sort of service for your farm, or are they just pets?
Well, they're sort of multifunctional -- you shear them once a year, and turn the fleece into yarn for knitting, rovings for spinning, or you can use it to make felt and things like that. A nice thing about Alpaca wool is that it doesn't have lanolin in it like sheeps wool, so people who are allergic to sheep wool can usually wear alpaca -- and it doesn't have the tell tale sheep smell when it gets wet too

My mom is working with a couple of the alpacas to become therepy animals, that she can take around to retirement homes, or to children with disabilities for visits and education.

Heres some of the things that me and my mom recently made --
- Hand felted decorator pillows and purses
- Knitted and Croched scarves