Alpaca luv - so much fun!

We are thrilled to announce a new collaboration with our friend Deb at Maple View Alpaca farm http://www.mapleviewfarmalpacas.com/ !  Deb loves her gangly-yet-gorgeous babies as much as we love our beautiful (if a titch less soigne) herd. 

 A cross between a swan and a teddy bear if we ever saw it!

After a visit, Sam came home with several colors of Deb's alpaca fiber recently and we have our very first offering up on etsy!  We're very excited - as well-loved as alpaca fiber is, it seems like few people are making elegant hats felted with it!  So here goes, our very first alpaca creation, modeled by the lovely Midge Park!

Introducing Midge Park

Hello Daaahlings!  Well, it's a few days off the mark, but we have a winner for our name-that-mannequin contest (cue the bells, whistles and catcalls).

We had so many witty and charming entries, and couldn't quite decide even with the sage input of our cloven-hooved pals, so we canvassed customers at the Cabin Fever Craft fair on Sunday, and finally arrived at Midge Park as the correct moniker for our lovely, corporeally-challenged covergirl.  The name smacks of 1920s&30s girl-friday style, and evokes our pastures in black-fly season to boot! 

So, without further ado, let us present our lovely and intrepid model, MIDGE PARK!!!

 (Our girlz love her!)

Midge's dear cousin, Ms. Shannon Park provided the name and has chosen the first of the two headbands as her prize.  Shannon, dear, send us your mailing address and we'll send you your goodie!  Huzzah, and thanks to everyone for all the adorable entries!  Muah

FIRST ANNUAL LITTLE HILL WOOLWORKS NAME THAT MANNEQUIN CONTEST

In honor of Valentine's Day we'd like to present the newest member of our multi-culti-mixed-species herd and the love of Arlo's life!  But we can't 'cause she doesn't have a name! (Cue the "Aaaaawww"s)

We at Little Hill approve of love of all kinds - even animate/inanimate cross-generational love.  However, we just can't STAND her namelessness.  So we are proud to announce the:

FIRST (possibly only) ANNUAL LITTLE HILL WOOLWORKS NAME THAT MANNEQUIN CONTEST

The brilliant winner will receive your choice of the following crimson-hued headbands (modeled by our other as-yet-to-be-named mannequin, ain;t she sweet?)

How it works:  She needs a first and last name!
To enter, you should: 1)subscribe to our blog, and 2)send your entry by Friday, Feb 11 to littlehillwoolworks@gmail.com along with which headband (1 or 2 ) you prefer. Also, let us know whether you'd like to pick up your prize at the SOWA Cabin Fever Show (http://cabinfevershow.com) Feb 13, 2011, or if you can't make it there, where you'd like us to ship it!  

A distinguished panel of adults, children and cloven-hooved folk will make a sober judgement and announce the winner on February 12.  How easy is that? 

Arlo and Madame X thank you!

We don't mind the winter blues, but save us from the winter blahs!

Blue is one of our favorite colors, so we kinda like the winter blues... especially sky blues...  and periwinkle blues... and deep soul-searching midnight blues...

turns out, making coloriscious bonbons for pallet-challenged New England noggins is a sure-fire antidote to "blahs" of any kind.  We've been busy mixing dyes in our big stained stock-pots and dipping felt, feathers, ribbons and even our new straws in to see what yummy shades we can come up with.  We are especially in love with the slightly "off" shades we get when we over-dye gray Lucy and brown Hannah.  Much better than spring. Really! 

Shoveling through waist-deep drifts to deliver hay to the herd is another story - our intrepid Sam once again gets the short end of the old stick with that task!  Meanwhile, Nora is up in the studio layering mustard yellow grosgrain over salmon-colored silk... no that's no good... how about cranberry velvet over nutmeg?  hmm...

Next we are headed down to the SOWA Cabin Fever Indy Gift Show on Sunday Feb. 13 (http://cabinfevershow.com) and we must say, despite the OUTRAGEOUS onslaught of snow and more snow and more more more snow we are much more sky blue than blah.