Alpaca sweatshirts from Hum Sweet Hum
My sister-in-law, Cindy Myers, who is staying with us for the Thanksgiving holidays, is an alpaca breeder and trainer. In case you don’t know, an alpaca is a domesticated species of South American camelid. It looks like a small llama, but unlike a llama, it is too small to be used as a pack animal. Instead, it is alpaca fiber that is prized by many people, especially knitters and weavers. The fiber is much softer than wool. I remember the extraordinarily soft feel of alpaca fiber when my daughter, Annie, was knitting with it a few months ago.
Cindy has started an alpaca business called Alpacas at Hum Sweet Hum. She has four animals right now, with two of them pregnant. She is also one of the few people who clicker trains them, which makes the skittish beasts more social and easier to handle. Annie just helped her launch her website, humsweethum.com. I’ve posted a photo with Cindy and my family in Hum Sweet Hum sweatshirts.
