Away from my blog

posts are less frequent...but have loads of photos
and yarny adventures to post, but...
off to my son's graduation at Oberlin College in Ohio...
check back end of May for all those great photos...
more sheep and wools, more new yarn shop reviews,
more famous knitting personalities recently met.
and photos of my very first sweater finished and it's wearable too!
plus some zany projects too of course...

Little Bo Peep I Found Your Sheep

More Yarny Goodness from Maryland...

fleecy goodness by the bagful on table after table





antique sock machines on display and on which you still can produce
a rather speedy sock.







Yak Yarn on display, now say that 3 times fast...



The Medieval Weavers were there complete in costume







There was a truck that drove up complete with a portable ATM in place,
now this was a first for me


and where are my spoils/purchases...stay tuned for part III

misc. things to be seen around the festival...


















...there were cars all over the cornfields as far as the human eye could see.............
Okay has anyone seen my car?

Gettin' My Daily Dose of FIber

MARYLAND SHEEP & WOOL



Okay folks, IS this the largest sheep & wool festival in the US?
I think I really need to know this, as I seem to be gravitating
towards them these days, and I guess the ultimate
would be to attend the mother
of all sheep and wool festivals...

Well in any case, the t-shirt/souvenir line here was
1 1/2 hours long just in itself.
And getting yourself a Maryland t-shirt is
like getting a Ravelry pin...
it's a must have accessary for us knitter's/crocheters/spinner's alike.
Every where you looked someone was sporting one of these very shirts,
all colors all designs, since every year they design
a brand new logo.

Note t-shirts in the many color choices available
with the current year's design
waved merrily above us (as we waited)
across the telephone pole wires to view in advance
as you weren't going to be moving anytime quickly in that line.



the line.............



there were boyscouts with signboards hawking (like a baseball vendor),
get yer lambburgers....




too many sights to post in one blog entry...

a herd of sheep



and a herd of Ravelers...

Get your stitches on

~This is part I of a 2-part blog on Maryland Sheep & Wool...stay tuned.



On another note: never got around to posting my stash
acquired recently at WEBS during the Yarn Harlot's visit a few weeks ago.

Cascade Heather Yarn


2 skeins chunky Bollicine yarn, Victor from Cascade Yarns



Kangaroo Dyer Hand dyed Laceweight Yarn Alpaca and Silk
950 yards



Wildwood yummy sparkling yarn by Valley Yarns


Misti Alpaca Hand Paint Lace 874 yards of baby alpaca

Off on a Yarny Adventure

Don't look here for any blog entries...
I'm off to the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival
with a loaded camera....stay tuned for lotsa photos....

I made it into the Yarn Harlot's Blog !

Went to WEBS in Northhampton, MA on Sunday...
my first ever visit to WEBS...
my second visit to see the Harlot....
just finished another knitted doll,
which I made into a Stephanie Pearl-McPhee doll....
All of my photos, a rush job, were done on a
stormy overcast day, so came out dark and mostly unuseable...
But I did manage to get one good photo of Stephanie holding the doll
at WEBS itself, and then Stephanie posted a good pic on her blog today
of the mini books and pencil I gave for her to sign them....

(see photo below from her blog) and also the direct link to her blog & article
she wrote about WEBS and her visit there.



http://www.yarnharlot.ca/blog/

The knitted doll has on a sweater cut and sewn from
an old patterned sock. She is holding up a mini sock
partially knitted in one hand, and originally had
a tiny camera in her other hand
which somehow got lost in the Calvin Theatre....it was rather
dark in there...and a little tricky to knit with the lights so
low...
But what a day....WEBS itself is amazing and so overwhelming...
I just wandered around the store for 2 hours in some Zen like state...
lost in row after row of lovely soft, beautifully colored yarn...
will photo some of my yummy alpaca lace weight
hand dyed lovelies for a future blog post...
but as it's raining here in New England, cannot photo anything
decent right now.

and a few quick shots of WEBS itself and Stephanie at the Calvin...
Roving


Yarn and even more yarn




and the famous back room...can you spell discount...
but this stuff is too nice, certainly not acrylic



and finally the Calvin itself...kind of dark as the photos
also came out dark, despite the flash...
it was packed, even up in the balcony...



and even though this was my second Harlot adventure, it seemed
all new, and she is so unbelievably funny...
If she ever comes to a town even close to your area...don't miss it!
and bring Kleenex...

No I did not fall off a very steep cliff while knitting on and on and on...

Happy Spring everyone...and a big welcome to these warm, sunny days....
I'm back finally no photos this time, very brief update just to say
have many exciting things to share from April.
3 new yarn store reviews.
Several famous yarn people that I have met this month
or have taken classes with....but not tonight....

off to see the Yarn Harlot this Sunday...

will post again Sunday or Monday with lots of news and Photos....
and I wrote 2 new patterns....
PS if you don't understand the comment about the cliff, go back
to my February entry about the Last Knit or just click on
link below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6ZjMWLqJvM

Does your paperboy look like this?

April is finally here. Hooray!
So far just showers and a few bulbs
trying to brave the cold...but hoping soon,
flowers will be everywhere! Just a mini post
as am off to this and that until Sunday night,
mostly just riding from here and there in the car...
so lots of great knitting time...have some really nifty
projects going on, much better than what I usually create...
so hopefully will be posting photos the beginning of next week.

In the meantime, does your paperboy look like this?



or perhaps one of these guys: