Half a Stash

I've been busy skirting and sorting more fiber for Black Sheep Gathering. I'd say I've had no time for fiber, but that's not quite true. When one is skirting under duress pressure, and doesn't have time for the fun things like carding and spinning, it only seems like one has no time for fiber.

I thought I'd show some pictures of my stash.


This stack is all blanket fleece -- mostly prime fleeces -- from other people's alpacas. There are a couple nice gray fleeces in the stash to be over-dyed and a couple nice light fleeces for ordinary dyeing, plus lots of other colors for natural colored yarn. Unfortunately, these fleeces are yet to be skirted -- and it's not likely I'll have them ready for BSG.

Yes, this stack of fiber is in the living room.

And that's less than half my stash.


This is my stash of fleeces ready for BSG. These are all skirted, weighed and ready to be packaged and labeled. In this case picture, the fleeces have been compressed and stuffed into storage cubes. There are a lot of fleeces in this picture!

And yes, this stack of fiber is also in the living room.

The skirting board is piled high -- also in the living room -- with fleeces that I think are ready for BSG or can be skirted in time for BSG. The guest bed is stacked with fleeces about which I need to make decisions. Do I take these fleeces for sale at BSG, or do I keep them for myself? Do I enter them in fleece shows or in alpaca spin-off competitions?

We do have a designated fiber storage hobby room in this house. It's stacked so full of alpaca fiber we don't have space for any hobbies.