I did manage a few purchases on Saturday. I picked up Alice Starmore’s Celtic Collection, a bar of soap and some lotion from Sleepy Moon Soaps, a little felted ball kit for this plying off a ball I’ve been hearing about, a fiber bump and a few silk hankies to play with from A Touch of Twist. There’s about 2 1/2 pounds of purply blue roving which should be enough for a sweater if all goes well.
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April 30, 2007 at 6:39 am
Looks like you did well at the festival. Love the blue roving! Should make for a beautiful sweater.
April 30, 2007 at 6:50 am
Nice stuff! The Starmore book is a good find. Was it at the place with all the patterns and pattern books for sale?
April 30, 2007 at 9:12 am
Looks like you were appropriately selective.
April 30, 2007 at 10:35 am
Ooh! Everything looks so pretty. You’ll have fun with that Starmore book. Her patterns are so interesting. And that roving looks so pretty. I can’t wait to see what you make with it!
April 30, 2007 at 11:07 am
Nice goodies! I love that Celtic collection book, my only dilemma is which one to knit first!
April 30, 2007 at 11:24 am
Nice finds! I wish I had more time to browse and peruse all the booths. I had a hard time balancing a child and the calling of my fiber friends. Love all the colors in the blue roving- looks like you’ll have enough. That’ll be a lovely sweater.
April 30, 2007 at 6:11 pm
Nice haul!
April 30, 2007 at 8:30 pm
Nice haul. And thanks for the link to the plying. That’s my worst part on the spindle. I like this idea.
April 30, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Also – so nice to see you planning a sweater.
April 30, 2007 at 11:47 pm
Great stuff, can’t wait to see some of it in person. I am up for Wednesday night if you are still interested. Need to get Kelsie’s socks done now that I have my Sockapalozza swap pal.
May 1, 2007 at 11:25 am
You picked up some great new things! The silk hankies should be interesting to spin. Did you notice how they stick to things on your hands you can’t even see. The lady in that booth told me it helped if you put baby powder on your hands before spinning them. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried them before. It will be a first time for me.
I wish I had seen the felted ball kits!
May 1, 2007 at 6:58 pm
oo. You’ll have fun with the silk hankies. Nice haul!
The silk reminds me that I’ve long thought there was a practical reason why young girls were made to do embroidery with fine threads: their elders’ skin would have been too rough to handle the fibers without damaging them. And English embroidery was a valuable export.