Maryland Sheep and Wool loot

You’d think that with me being me and the festival being what it is that I’d have piles and buckets of yarn and goodies to show. Really I’m surprised myself at what little I brought home. See I’m sort of like a kid with a nickel... I’m afraid that the minute I spend it I’ll find something I like even more and then wish I hadn’t already spent my nickel. So I wandered around all day admiring everything and left with very little.

But really that’s not true either. I may not have come home with bags and bags of yarn but we all had a fine day. We met up with some friends, ate lots of yummy junk, and got all squeaky about all the fluffy critters.

The kids waited... ummmm... patiently while I chatted with Ann and Eugene Bourgeois of Philosopher’s Wool...

Once I was done chatting we headed out to the truck for a picnic lunch.

Later in the day I got to congratulate Eunny Jang on her new job in person but it was late in the day and we had already dumped the camera off at the truck so I have no picture. Its just as well, really, because by the end of the day I was a bit disheveled and pretty much felt like a dork the entire time I talked to her. She was, of course, quite pleasant and tidy.

I did purchase some silk hankies and a little make-your-own-silk-hankies-out-of-cacoons-kit (I blame the kids and the lady who was doing the demonstration thinger). This is all quite amusing because I don’t know how to spin, I don’t normally knit with silk and, in fact, I didn’t really know anything about silk hankies until this very day. Go figure. They are really pretty though... and I do have a nice spindle here... somewhere...

Comments

[Miss Scarlett]

Oooh how intriguing! I didn't realize you could buy silk cocoons. You are really going to have to share that project with us.
I love the look on Tater's face!

[Michelle Marr]

I know that kid with a nickel feeling -- every time I spend the last of my yarn money I immediately find one more thing I absolutely can't live without.

Last time I went to a wool festival with my kids, I walked around and kept track of what I wanted to go back and buy...but by the end of the day I was so exhausted there was no going back for anything at all.

[LW]

Unless I have a plan for what I'm going to make and how and a lot of other particulars, I get suckered into buying stuff too.... Now I go with knowledge of exactly what I want to make and what kind of yarn I need.