Fiber Festival Finds

What now feels like ages ago, I finally made it to my first fiber festival. It’s really only been a few weeks, but with the way that this summer (now fall, ugh!) is going, it could have been a different year for all I know.

I took an embarrassingly small number of pictures, and completely missed the sheep I almost put to sleep – turns out sheep really like getting their chins scratched! Who knew?

However, I did capture these a super cute dragon

and the awesome wizard hats of this booth (The name of which I also forgot to write down. “I’ll take: Distracted by All the Pretty Fibers for $800, Alex.”)

The rabbits were amazing puffs of fluff (and this was by no means the fluffiest):

except for this poor guy.

There is absolutely no dignity in being a rabbit sometimes – although I’m sure he was a lot cooler after his haircut.

For being my first fiber festival experience, I held to a very strict buying budget. I had to get some Socks That Rock, though narrowing down to one colorway was very difficult (which I think is Princess Plummy, from the Watercolor Wave grouping; lightweight sock yarn. Lenore was a close second.)

Also, since I was gifted with a spindle from a wonderful friend, I wanted to pick up some beginner fiber. From the woman who gave me a quick demonstration on her spindle and then handed said spindle over to me to keep going for a few more inches, 4oz of Shetland/Angora mix:


From a few stalls over, in another building, 4oz of this lovely merino:

I’ve finished and/or made great progress on a few things from my last post, most notably the lace shawl. I may actually get it done for the last of this month’s weddings! (It’s been a beautiful but busy time – weddings on 9/18, 10/1, and 10/9.) A few cute and quick projects also leaped into my lap and got made, and I’ll tell more about those in the next entry.

For now, though, I leave you with a very dangerous new website to peruse. The Fiber Cooperative is exactly what they say – an indie, online fiber festival. I’m especially in love with a Knits in Class sock yarn called Eat Your Veggies. That might have to be a post-wedding-traveling gift to myself. For such a long time I resisted wearing a lot of green, and thus avoiding (what I thought was a stereotype) of a redhead wearing green. Shoot, I wasn’t just resisting, I was refusing. Blue was always my first choice, and still tends to be in my top 3 go-to colors. With mostly blue eyes, that made sense. But now I can’t get enough green, and this sock yarn hits a bull’s-eye in my need for green.