Big Girls Celebrate Their One Year Old Birthday

Casey's pretty big girl in the tiki hut, party time!   Three sisters Violet, Jasmin and Felicia share the celebration.

One year old, how time flies.

Pretty girl.

Full show coat.

 

Maura Gets Ready for the Fall

Maura is into the fall frame of mine.

 

Maura loves the cool fall weather.

Carol's Handsome French Angora Boys

Babies grow fast.  These were just babies but now handsome junior boys.

This is Carol's nice litter from her big winner...

Their mom won the Best In Show in show B at WCC, the huge event.

Look at this nice texture.

Brotherly love.

What are they doing?  Well, boys will be boys.  If you are looking for a nice French Angora white buck to add to your herd, contact Carol.   Some are entered in the ARBA convention at Reno but delivery before or at the convention is possible.  

 

Alba Gets a Haircut

Alba is very well behaved and easy to groom, it's a delight to take her to shows.

Alba stays in shows for a long time.   She holds her coat well. During her show time, she accumulated 44 legs of which 20 are the BOB, out of these 20 BOB, she advanced to 3 all breed Best In Show, 1 all breed Reserve In Show and 4 specialty Best In Show.

There was a slight hope that she would be able to attend the ARBA convention, but her coat is a bit over ripe.  It's time to have a cut.

A nice body exposes after the cut.

A wool fall.

 

Belated Happy Birthday Alan Jackson

October 17 is Alan Jackson's birthday, and 2022 is a special year as he is now qualified to be on Medicare!  Join the queenage/kingage generation.    Betty is a loyal fan for 30+ years, this is a treasured photo taken in June 1992.   For the story behind this meet, go to:

Northern California Angora Guild: Betty is A Country Music Fan (ncag.blogspot.com)

 

American Fuzzy Lop Scarf

American Fuzzy Lop is one of the 7 ARBA recognized wool breeds, the other 6 are English Angora, French Angora, Giant Angora, Satin Angora, Jersey Wooly and Lionhead.   

There are 15 points allocated to wool in the American Fuzzy Lop standard while all four Angora breeds allocate 55-60 points to wool.  Though the breed does not emphasize nor produce as much wool as any of the four Angora breeds, the Fuzzy wool is still useful in fiber creation.  

Here is a scarf made by Carol of handspun yarn from the American Fuzzy Lop wool.  

This scarf has a special meaning: The wool was harvested long time ago from Brian Hartzell's American Fuzzy Lop rabbits.   Brian was a judge, a major breeder/exhibitor of American Fuzzy Lop and Jersey Wooly, also the presenter of the broken Jersey Wooly.  This blog started in August 2005 inspired by Brian's visit to Carol's summer show in June 2005.    This is the first blogpost of our blog:

Northern California Angora Guild: NCAG Activities

Unfortunately Brian Hartzell passed away at 31 years old on June 8, 2009 of an undiagnosed heart condition.   Read more about him at:

 Northern California Angora Guild: Brian Hartzell Remembered (ncag.blogspot.com)

From English Angora Wool to Colorful Hats

A love bucket of colorful yarn balls that are made of English Angora wool.  

Add to the colored dyed English Angora yarn balls is a ball of natural colored English Angora yarn.  What happens next?

Lots of finger work, four hats are the outcome.   Like them?