After weaving the threads of community, the shopping was grand.
There’s nothing more delightful than spending a day wandering through the vendor barns at Rhinebeck, taking in the intense colors, meeting friends, and of course, shopping. I had given up on having a...
View ArticleThe day they locked up all the color
Continuing in the Colorless vein of my last post, I want to tell you about my trip to the Marketplace at Stitches East last Saturday. Stitches East, if you aren’t familiar with it, is one of several...
View Articlea fiber festival, distilled to pure joy
This year, my friend Jo and I spent just one day at the NY Sheep and Wool festival. The past two years, I chose to make a long weekend of it, arriving on Friday night and staying through Sunday. This …...
View ArticleThe Inaugural Fiber Festival of New England
There’s a new fiber festival on the circuit, and it made a great first impression with me. It’s a two day festival, November 6 and 7. If you are in the Springfield, MA area, RUN over to the Big E …...
View ArticleFiber Festival in review
OK, don’t ask how I got so sidetracked yesterday. I underestimated how long it takes to add pictures and links to a blog entry. Let’s get back to my experiences at the Fiber Festival of New England. As...
View ArticleBack to basics
This year’s visit to the NY Sheep and Wool festival was a return to the basics. Years ago, before online communities like Ravelry created such a whirl of anticipation before the event, the NYS&W...
View Articlesurprisingly fun
I spent most of Saturday in the Vogue Knitting Live marketplace. You know I don’t usually enjoy knitting symposia or urban fiber marketplaces, but I set my expectations really low and was pleasantly...
View ArticleFrom Rhinebeck to refugee
January is a third gone, and I am just getting around to posting the highlights from last October’s NY Sheep and Wool Festival in Rhinebeck. You can blame Hurricane Sandy for that. I am still a refugee...
View ArticleMore about Rhinebeck — lots of spindles and finally, a ball winder
Today, I’m going to show you all the wonderful tools that I bought from Golding Fiber Tools. My first top whorl spindle was from the Goldings, so many years ago. I still use it for plying. Did you see...
View ArticleMassachusetts Sheep And Wool Festival
There were sheep, and there was wool. That’s a proper festival, right? Sheep amaze me. I seldom photograph them, but I love watching them and especially listening to them. Maybe little lambs bleat, and...
View ArticleFestival season
The wheels of process turn slowly when buying a house. Maybe I am almost there. The final hurdle is Title 5, which is an extensive test of the septic system. I think I would walk away from the deal if...
View Articlesheep to shawl…meep.
I am excited, and completely terrified, to be the weaver on a sheep to shawl team at an upcoming sheep and wool festival. The excitement springs from the challenge of doing something completely new....
View ArticleSomeday this will be cloth
For now, it is the finest, fluffiest, whitest wool I have had the pleasure to touch. I have been flicking the locks open at each end, creating little puffs of wool that spin up into fine and lofty...
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