I had an opportunity last Spring to see some alpaca's being shorn and was given some of the alpaca hair to experiment with in my fibre art. Using my embellisher, I needle felted the fibre's to create a base using the darker grey hair. I then incorporated some of my hand dyed cheesecloth over top of the alpaca felt. I added some circles in a lighter colour of alpaca hair, and intentionally left some of the long dark strands hanging so that I could later add beads to them. I did a lot of machine stitch/thread sketching over the cheesecloth to bring out more of the copper and turquoise colour before moving to the hand beading. As for the title Henry's Haircut...you guessed it, the dark gray alpaca's name is Henry.
