Sunday, August 17, 2008

Michigan Fiber Festival

Yesterday was the MFF and it was tons of fun! Here's a little rundown of the day:
1. Watched the sheep show for a bit with Erica and her hubby (of course we were partial to the Windswept Shetlands!)
2. Had a delicious Olive Burger for lunch with Kathy, Jillian, Karen, Karen, and Beth.
3. Watched the judging of the skein competition (I should have entered a skein or two, maybe next year.) Congrats to Erica for the Blue Ribbon on her Baby Alpaca 3 ply!!!
4. Karen and I bumped into Lisa in the bathroom so we all headed over to Mike's booth to chat for a bit.
And then there was the shopping...OMG...I got some amazing things!!!

Here's the whole loot!
1 lb. 10oz. 2ply Alpaca Fingering weight yarn from Zeilinger Wool (show special $1/oz! Plans are to use it for corespinning or dyeing at this point.
Last year's tee (I didn't care for this years and this one was on sale!) and a spinning caddy, matches my Lendrum Denim carry bag! So cute!
Kid and yearling locks!
.8 oz Silk Hankies
8oz. "Fine Wool Blend" from Linden Lane Firestar
2.5 oz. Scrap Bag. One of the vendors had all their scrappies out and you could get as much as you could fit in a sandwich baggie for $2!!! I'm quite happy with my 2.5 oz fill :)
4 oz. "60% Polworth, 30% Alpaca, 10% Angora" from Linden Lane
4 oz. "Cormo" from Foxhill Farm
4 oz. "Polworth" from Linden Lane
8 oz. "Celtic Sea"" from Psalm 23 Farm, 61% Shetland, 31% Mohair, 8% Silk Noil and Glitz
8 oz. "Fireworks" from Psalm 23 Farm, 80% Shetland, 20% Sari Silk
4oz. Natural Black and White Shetland from Windswept Farms (I picked this to spin 1st, it's wonderful!!!)
1+ lb. Natural Moorit Colored Shetland from Windswept Farms (Mike has the best shetland!!!)
LOTS of Glitz

GREAT day!!! Can't wait until next year. I hear the rule is you have to use / spin everything you bought the year before or you can't buy anything next year. Eeek, I better get carding and spinning!

1 comments:

quantumtea said...

Cormo and Polwarth are fabulous to spin with, enjoy!

Saw your fibre stash on Ravelry. Honestly, it's not out of control till you start losing animals or small children in there... ;-)