All Spun Up!

It didn't take long to get my festival fiber all spun up.  I was on it that evening when I got home, and finished the next day.  As a matter of fact, most of the fiber that I bought at the festival is spun up.  I love to spin bright colored fiber.  It is so peaceful for me to treadle on my spinning wheel and watch the colors blend together like they do.  I have a ton of spun up yarn.  Most is from and dyed roving that I bought on Etsy, but I've recently started dying my own fiber.  While there will always be something fiber-related to learn, this seems to complete my ability to process my own fiber from start to finish.  Now if I can ever seem to part with any of it or knit it into an actual garment.  Right now all my skeins are in one of my huge handmade baskets.  My husband asks me all the time when I'm going to do some with the yarn and my response is always the same, "But I just like to look at it."  Seriously.  I love to fish through the basket admiring the kaleidoscope of colors and textures.

By the way, this basket really is huge.  It's 12 inches high and 15 inches in diameter.  And as you can see, it's filled to the top.  My goal is to eventually knit it into my own technicolor dream-sweater.  But I haven't mastered the art of sweater-making just yet.  Coming soon...

8th Annual Waynesburg Sheep and Fiber Festival

(60% Merino, 30% Bamboo, 10% Nylon)

Today we travelled down to Greene County for the 8th annual Sheep and Fiber Festival.  Last year was our first time attending and we met so many great people that we went back again this year.  It is really a great little festival with a medley of different vendors and fiber animals.   We got to chat with some of the people we met last year, eat some lamb, and fetch some fiber to spin.   I even bought a Dorset fleece right of they newly sheared sheep.  We chatted with the couple from the llama farm we visited last spring, who invited us back out for another visit, and I bought some of their llama roving to spin.  I've yet to spin llama.

 (new lamb)

 (Babydoll Southdown Sheep)

(introducing the pygmys to the new pygoras)

We also acquired two pygora lambs (not me, my friend Cheryl).  Pygora means a cross between an angora goat and a pygmy goat.  Their fiber is wonderful!  It is softer than just the angora goat, yet the pygmy gives the goat it's hardiness.  Cheryl already has two adorable pygmy goats (seen above - on left); these two were a perfect addition to her little farm.  It was quite a ride home with these two in the back of the car.  They actually did pretty well.

Lastly (no pictures yet) we found a table loom for sixty bucks!  We couldn't decide which was the better deal of the day: the goats or the loom.  Both were amazing finds.  Stay tuned for some loom productions!