Yesterday my husband and I took a pleasant drive out to Big Island, VA for the small but fun Sedalia Fiber Festival. First things first: baby animals!!
Wouldn't be a fiber festival without fuzz on the hoof.
Now that I've had a teenietiny bit of spinning experience I noticed myself being drawn to different things than at last fall's Montpelier festival (except the baby animals, which have always been a draw). Which is probably how I ended up coming home with this:
That's four ounces each of undyed merino on the left and undyed corriedale on the right, from ISeeSpots Farm. I'd better get busy with that drop spindle!
Another treat of the festival was seeing how Ravelry is influencing the whole fiber community. As I was oggling the displays I spotted a yarn that looked mighty familiar:
It turns out that the woman behind Rock Creek Yarn has just recently gotten started dying yarn and I recognized her colorways from her Ravelry ad! She's super nice and enthusiastic and I eagerly brought home a skein of her gorgeous Simply Sock in the Sedona colorway. Yum.
I think this might end up being the first pair of socks for the Summer of Socks 2008.
3 comments:
Summer of socks! WOOOOOOO! I do love me some sock knitting.
Hey, look! It's Christy! :D
I had no idea socks would be so addicting. I mean, I'd heard the stories but thought I was different, of course. Now I'm just one more sucker drooling on the sock yarn.
Hi Vilde,
My name is Dana and I was one of the organizers of the Sedalia Fiber Festival 2008. With your permission, may I borrow your photos and add them to the 2009 web site photo gallery? I can be reached at clansoltanATaolDOTcom.
Thank you! Dana
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