Today on a grand breakfast and shopping trip, my friend came across this box of 100% natural alpaca, from the Peruvian Andes. One package contained many pieces of soft, yet appealingly coarse fabric and the other contained alpaca fibers, perfect for needle felting.

Since our work this week in Jane LaFazio’s class, Art  Quilt Explorations, deals with felt and mola-style designs, I thought these packages would be a practical addition to this project. I’m currently using wool felt purchased from Joggles and it’s delightful, but this alpaca is marvelous, coarser and less processed. The colors are paired which will help me in the execution of my design, Chinese Gongs. And I’ll needle felt some right away into another piece I’m working on. Here’s the photos: