Alpaca watchcap

This is the first thing I knit with baby alpaca. I gave it to my friend in Northern Ireland for Christmas.



Some observations:

Alpaca is wonderful stuff. Soft, silky, warm, it hardly registered on my skin at all when I was knitting it.

Alpaca is not nearly as elastic as wool. In the future, I will probably use a wool-alpaca blend.

Alpaca tends to relax with the first washing, so knit in a slightly tighter gauge than you want the finished garment to be.