Do you know that feeling of silky soft, cool, beautiful white beach sand between your toes? Yes? Now imagine that softness as your favorite luxury sweater. Yep that's it. You're dreaming of "Flip Flop". This is seriously SO soft that a baby could snuggle it. And the color: Beach sand white - with a touch of seashell ivory. The feel; an incredible, proprietary Mill Blend of fine Suri Alpaca for silkiness, Huacaya Alpaca for loft, fine Merino Wool for memory and Mulberry Silk for added luster. Everything about this product is hand produced and variations in color, weight and length are to be expected.
13 skeins available at approximately 200 yards (+/-) each. 2 ply, approximately 4.0 oz per skein.
Hand wash, cool water, with wool soap for a lifetime of luxury.
About "Flip Flop" the donkey
Every now and again, an intake burro would capture the hearts of all that met them. When Flip Flop was at Burro Basecamp everyone wanted to be her friend. Her name stuck because she had one ear that 'flopped' forward. When a family with a little boy visited and fell in love, it was mutually agreed that she'd found her family. A month after heading to her new home, and being renamed Sugar, Flip Flop surprised everyone when she gave birth to a beautiful baby named Nala. Sugar and Nala continue to live together with a herd of goats, a mini horse and a huge Cow named Daisy.
Our story:
Hana May, a formerly Wild Arizona Donkey (in the wild known as a Burro) and her herd of Alpaca, are the reason this exquisite fiber exists. Her adoption from the Bureau of Land Management Wild Horse and Burro Program, spearheaded the rehabilitation and adoption into happy forever homes of over 300 previously wild burros and their offspring.
While these adoptions were taking place, her herd of Suri Alpaca yielded five years worth of heavenly fiber. And here is the resulting product.
Only the very finest of this fiber has been superbly hand blended with fine wools and silks, to create a heirloom quality product that suits any number of lovingly curated items.
Hand colored, blended, small batch artisan yarn that’s both timeless and fashionable.
Best of all with every skein of yarn purchased, you’re helping to rescue and rehabilitate donkeys all over the Continental USA by supporting numerous donkey rescue centers.
10% of the sale price of this yarn is returned back to donkey rescue to continue the work. Every week of the year, hundreds of Donkeys find themselves in dire need of help. Thank you for helping us to help them.
I am thrilled with my yarn. I love silk blends with alpaca or merino. This yarn is truly luxurious. I am very texture motivated and while very soft, this yarn also has that alpaca structure.
I also have a long history with the donkey/burro rescue owner and can vouch that the animals they save get the best gentling and homes out there.
It’s a bonus to get this lovely yarn and help with the rescue!
Omg, I just received my beautiful yarn from Save a Donkey Yarn Company! Its more beautiful than I imagined ❤I love it! I can't wait to start knitting my hat. Thank you Nicki Creasey for doing the amazing things that you do❤ and thank you for thinking of and using my LiliRae ❤
Nicki Creasey
Donkey Lover, Alpaca Farmer and Artisan of Fine Yarns
My name is Nicki. For 5 years I ran Burro Basecamp on the beautiful high desert terrain of central Colorado. My small Alpaca herd were guarded and guided by Hana May my BLM Burro. Now it's time to bring it full circle and allow this remarkably beautiful product that I've brought to fruition, to help burros in need across the country with funds from your purchase. Burro Basecamp is still saving and adopting burros in Colorado.
www.burrobasecamp.com