Fall festival

Great Lakes Fiber Show We attended this show last year and had a great time it was our first fiber show ever. We came back this year knowing a whole lot more of what we were looking at and what we (me) wanted to buy. As we started to walk around a woman from our guild flagged us down to chat, when we got into the first building and saw 3 other people we knew and blabbed some more. The second booth was the beginning of our down fall. A local potter was selling mugs with rams and ewes on them. Yep we got one of each and went a little further down the row meeting more people we knew. How strange that last year we knew only 2 people and this year it's like we belong here. The show once again was great. There were 3 large buildings of every thing from wool roving to felting machines. There were food trucks set up and 3 barns of sheep that were being judged and later they were selling some. My daughter AJ from the podcast AJknits and her family met us there. Joe and B walked around looking at sheep and petting alpaca's while AJ and us watched them judge short hair fleeces. AJ has always wanted to buy a fleece, not me I did dye day and the guild last year and yuck! Give me a clean bag of roving any day. The judge seemed to know her stuff. She told every one what she was looking at, what she expected to see, or what it should look like and how the could correct the problem. We had another friend helping the judge, we gave her a little wave and a smile when she had a chance to look up. We ate lunch with yet another member of the guild and later made a new friend when we took a snack break. Did I mention it was stinking hot. Now for the damage report. The 2 hand thrown mugs. A carbon fiber drop spindle with purple skeleton heads. Hand dyed screaming green Blue face Liecester roving. purple (crocus) roving. Forget me not wool and silk roving which is white with purple and blue specks. This one called to me. I passed it by twice and broke down on the third pass. a blue wool roving that I got from Liz . A bubble gum pink wool roving. All in all I'm happy with what I bought. Now if I can just keep Daisy out of the bags. What! I like wool, it smells good. Bah Humbug!

I still have been spinning the multi-colored wool that I got from Dave. I have spun about 800yds that are in skeins and another 200 yds that are ready to be plyed.

I also finished the Waves Cowl by ulipatchouli designs. I bought 2 skeins of this yarn in contrasting color Schulana Macaibo #12 and #2 at Kamp Kip and they came with a free pattern that the woman there swore I would be able to knit. I'm not much of a knitter but after several trips to you tube I figured it out. Got to say I'm liking it. :-)

In this pitcure you can see the wave pattern.

On my needles is the prayer/meditation shawl that I am knitting from the multicolored hand spun mentioned above. I'm about half way done. Next blog, Goodies bought at the Great Lakes Fiber Show in Wooster Ohio.

OH MY, IT'S BEEN A WHILE

Even though I haven't posted in a while I have been spinning and knitting.

And there is a bunch more I haven't taken pictures of.

Right now I'm spinning a multicolored wool for Dave at the guild. So far I'm loving it. I plied one yesterday and should have another one done tomorrow. On my needles is a scarf from the Wave pattern. No where near done on that. :-)