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Francine La Shier,
Kathy Zimmerman

for Classic Elite Yarns 1999

837 The Sculpture Garden

You don't completely appreciate an alpaca garment until you wear it. It's so smooth, so intensely warm and soft and light, long-stapled and hard-wearing, that it seems impossible. But it's real-- and these three pieces represent the best ways to display alpaca's gifts. The fair isle pieces are many times warmer than wool, with their double thickness of partially hollow, air-trapping fibres. The lyrical bottom piece (first gauge below), with its wonderful overall panel framed by simple rope cables, is just a joy.