Last weekend Huw, Lucy, Peter, and I went to the New Hampshire Sheep and Wool Festival. We got there early in the morning, and we stayed for the entire day. It was glorious! There was yarn! There were sheep! There was yarn! There were alpacas! There was yarn! There were bunnies! There was yarn!
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| Freshly shorn alpaca with big hair |
I had a list of vendors whom I wished to visit, and was able to make it to all of them. And I bought yarn from all of them, too. My list included Mad Color Fibers, Good Karma Farm, Decadent Fibers, Dirtywater Dyeworks, and Jan Marek Raczkowski Studio. I also patronised several other booths (I'm generous like that), and took the cards of several others, because, you know, my cash is a finite resource, and storage space is getting limited. But I had the best time, and a wicked fun conversation with the owner of Mad Color Fiber (she had dyed her hair purple). The colours in her yarns are so deeply saturated, and gorgeous. I actually went back to her booth to pick up one last skein of yarn. I actually have projects in mind for three of the skeins I got!
This is Rock Lobster, in Blue Face Leicester yarn. She also had a wonderful red called He's Not Dead Yet, but it was not the weight I wanted. But I can always order it on line. This red will become a Spiral Staircase Shawl for someone. The red is so intense.
Land of Oz, for a special niece who likes green. I'll probably knit these two skeins at the same time, since the colour values are slightly different.
From Good Karma Farms, these skeins are 60% alpaca and 40% wool. They'll make a man shawl for a friend of mine who is a one-year cancer survivor, but who cannot get warm.
Other yarns were purchased, but I don't have people of projects in mind for them yet. I'll post them as I think of them. I am hoping that these yarns don't end up languishing in my stash, but get knit up right quick.
From Good Karma Farms, these skeins are 60% alpaca and 40% wool. They'll make a man shawl for a friend of mine who is a one-year cancer survivor, but who cannot get warm.
800 yards of warm wooly goodness, waiting to be knit up.
And from Dirtywater Dyeworks, this gradient fingering yarn to make into a shawl or cowl. I've got a pattern in mind, but I'm not sure for whom yet. I've never really knit in fingering weight. The needle recommendation is US 1 to 3.
Other yarns were purchased, but I don't have people of projects in mind for them yet. I'll post them as I think of them. I am hoping that these yarns don't end up languishing in my stash, but get knit up right quick.
