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Homespun Yarn Party!

Today was FANTASTIC. My husband and a few friends and I went to Savage, MD to check out the Homespun Yarn Party, and we were well rewarded. There were a bunch of fantastic fiber artists from the area including Snallygaster Fibers, Rock Creek Yarn, The Camel Shoppe, Cephalopod Yarns, The Verdant Gryphon, Taylored Fibers and Space Cadet Creations. There were SO MANY beautiful yarns and fibers that it was really difficult to limit myself to just a few things. But of course, I couldnt walk away empty-handed. So here are my new treasures:

Spiral Tip Bubinga & Beech .9oz
Top Whorl Spindle from Kate's Cauldron

2oz of Alpaca Roving from Taylored Fibers

490 yards Fingering Weight Superwash Merino
in "Plumberry" from SpaceCadet Creations

Homespun Yarn Party button and tape measure

The highlight for me though, was competing in the "Longest thread" spinning competition. Everyone who wanted to participate was given the same amount of fiber to spin and we all had 15 minutes to spin the longest thread we could. I came in third place with 21 yards! And, everyone complimented how nice and even mine was. *beam*

Spinning on a drop spindle.

Last Note: Husband walked around with a sign on his back that said "Did your spouse bring you here? Spouse support group." He got a lot of laughs.

Kids are Too Cute

My office is in a community building and specifically we share space with a special-needs inclusion classroom that is part of a Jewish Day School. Today, everyone in my office decorated their doors in spirit of preparing for the holiday of Purim. I put up a whole display called “From Sheep To Sweater”

Just now, a little boy who has DS and his teacher came by to look at the doors, and I told them he could touch the stuff. He started petting the sample of BFL/Silk I have up and the teacher asked him “How does it feel?” to try and get him to use an adjective (soft).

He said “yummy”

^_^

You Spin Me Right Round Baby

I bought this lovely new spindle from Spinatude, and used it to spin Bohoknitterchic's January Phat Fiber sample "Pearls". I managed to get about 36 yards of 2-ply, laceweight yarn. (For the record, in person, this yarn is a little more peachy colored and slightly less yellowish.)

Sigh

Apparently I still suck at blogging regularly.
Have some amigurumi.