Featured Artist Three Hawk Alpacas

Anita is married with three darling grand children in addition to all her 58 furry, alpaca babies.  She began selling raw fiber, roving and batts in the farm store on her property, but soon discovered that there is a limited market for this raw material. She is very passionate about her work and is often uses her store as well as her booths at craft fairs to show her customers the quality of alpaca fiber as a base for their yarn and felting projects.  In order to do this, she had to learn how to use it herself!  Anita quickly learned to wet and needle felt as well as knit and crochet. 

Alpaca is different from other yarns and slides through your fingers while knitting, crocheting, or felting.  I (Anita) am always looking for new item to create so everyone can have something in alpaca.  The softness and luxurious feel of alpaca is very habit forming.  Once my customers knit with alpaca yarn they are not satisfied with some other mediums.  Is there any doubt about how Anita feels about her product?

She loves to talk to her customers and help them to decide just what type of material they need.  Her experience as a fiber artist allows her to be able to help her customers understand just how much material they will need to complete a project. As if all that wasn’t enough, Anita is about to embark on a new type of fun…hand spinning her luxury alpaca into yarn which will open up all sorts of new opportunity for color combination experimentation and fiber combinations! Anita is passionate about learning and is active in her community.  She gains support from her friends who occasionally help her at craft fairs as well as meet up to work on knit and crochet projects; pushing each other to try more daring designs.  This creative passion has pushed Anita to create some of the most luxurious items which can only be described as wearable art.

What is her advice to others that are trying to make a living from their passion?  “Go for it!”  She advises people to start advertising your one of a kind art and be sure to use your sales to make you more confident to continue your passion.  If it takes time to start selling, don’t give up!

Want to see some really darling animals that take up so much of Anita’s time?  You can check out her website a twww.threehawkalpacas.com .  You can also visit Anita’s shops for her wonderful fiber products as well as her completed projects made from her own alpacas on the HandmadeArtistsShop as well as on Etsy ; and visit her on Facebook .