by David | Oct 5, 2012 | Creative Spinning, Fibre Dyeing & Soap Felting, Things Llama, Workshops
The last two months have been amongst the most challenging I can remember and this was reflected in our need to cancel one workshop recently and even to not making the effort to promote the one before that, on Mega Knitting. Thank you all for your understanding when...
by DesignerLynne | Jul 17, 2012 | Animals, Education, Llama Rescue, Philosophy, Socks & Slippers
Turning a hobby into a full time business venture is a daunting prospect, but elevating the hobby to a fibre arts education centre is an entirely different ball game. Just how the ball started rolling is described in this short and amusingly moralistic story, which I...
by DesignerLynne | Jun 13, 2012 | Animals, Casting On, Homeopathy, Knitting, Llama Rescue, Mega Knitting, Techniques, Video
When I came up with the idea of creating a series of knitting tutorial videos for beginners, I hadn’t considered quite how much work there might be. However, when I sat down and scribbled a rough list of what I thought should be included and what would be counted as...
by David | Jun 11, 2012 | Animals, Caring For Animals, Homeopathy, Llama Rescue, Philosophy
Daily challenges are the staple foods of personal growth; we need to be challenged to grow and just like plants, if we’re not growing then we are dying. Certainly the challenges have come thick and fast for Llamas in the Raw Sanctuary recently. Rescuing abandoned...
by David | Apr 30, 2012 | Animals, Factlets, Things Llama
Camelids have prehensile lips, meaning they have the ability to grip things with their finger-like lips. Llamas, alpacas, camels, vicunas and guanacos have a cleft or split in the upper lip that enables them to manoeuvre grass and twigs, rotate them and even to draw...
by David | Apr 6, 2012 | Animals, Caring For Animals, Things Llama, Video
Digging through our photographic archive, I found this short video clip and thought it would make a nice little camelid cameo. Although Llamas in the Raw is not a registered charity, several of our llamas are rescued animals, adopted or collected from people who no...
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