Little York Fiber Festival

 What a lovely day for a fiber fest!  It was nice and chilly- not too bad that it hindered my shopping experience but just right to be sporting some crochet and knit wear!  Here I am wearing my Cardiff Cowl in Lion Brand Baby Alpaca.  Perfect touch of warmth around my neck and of course my hands were kept toasty in my Camp Out Fingerless Mitts.

 Out in the parking lot, we saw this awesome bumper sticker and I had to take a shot of it!  I wish I took some more pictures but I was thoroughly involved with the fiber festivities. 

 These guys were hanging out by Trinity Farms booth.  She had a ton of Shetland and Icelandic wool for sale.  I almost purchased some but was definitely distracted by sparkly, shiny, bright colors today.

 These were pretty awesome batts that my friends Gretchen and Angela bought but I resisted the urge plus, I only had just so much cash on me!

I was really attracted to all the locks in Burt's Peaceful Valley Enterprises booth.  I spent most of my budget with her!  Pictures of what I bought are coming soon but I have to say that Little York did an awesome job with their first fiber festival. 

Crafting...what's that?

 Life has been crazy busy since I went back to teaching in September that I've hardly had a chance to do any yarn crafting.  Plus, my two little redheads are keeping me super busy.  That's okay, they're lucky they are cute as heck...

 It's also getting pretty chilly here.  I'm so excited for cold weather.  This summer was way too hot and sticky.  I wish I could live in constant autumn.  Is there a place on earth where that happens?  I'm enjoying my camp out mitts too.  Can't you tell?

 I've been spinning this up but it's taking me forever (prolly cuz of teaching, babies, and house work)!  This is fiber I got from Pear Tree Farms at the Finger Lakes Fiber Festival a couple of years ago.  It's a mixed wool blend that was over dyed.  There were four bumps in blue, yellow, and orange.  It's not the smoothest spinning but I do like the colors and since it didn't come with a name I immediately thought of Yellow Submarine!

Tomorrow, I will be going to my first fiber festival of the year.  I am way overdue and with all the spinning I've been doing this year I have hardly a fiber stash right now.  It's Little York's first time hosting a fiber fest and I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself.  There is around twenty-two vendors and I'm fine with that.  I've been to Rhinebeck once and that was enough.  Too many people and so overwhelming!  Give me small and cozy and I'm there!  I am especially excited to see what Spun Right Round brings to the fest...

Rock the Vote!

I'm not talking politics.  Lord no.  I don't want to even go there right now but I am talking about the Martha Stewart Presents American Made Awards.  One of our local fiberistas, Jill Draper,  is a finalist to win $10,000 to help put towards her business.  Go here and please VOTE for her!  If you want to see a peek into her philosophy about handmade goods and yarn take a look at this video.  And lastly, if you want to see how much more of an awesome person she is, check out her blog!

Voting ends September 24th!

Yea for the Yarn Cupboard!

In the most recent issue of Vogue Knitting, my lys is featured in the new and knit worthy section!  Whoohoo!

Summer Flings

Summer is over and a new school year for me is beginning.  The following are some snapshots of what my summer- in relation to fibery goodness looked like (glamor photos to come, of course!):

Started my Christmas crafting with Rebecca Danger.... 

 One of my yarny friend gave me some booties for Angelo.  Too cute, right??

Helloooo new spindle!  The story about how I acquired this will be told in a future post...

Some crap fiber that I practiced with and immediately took of my spindle:

Trying to make a crescent shawl.  We will see how this goes since making a shawl just doesn't seem to be in the cards for me lately.

 It's such a pretty green though....

Boom!

It's like a hexipuff bomb went off up in here!

Kittehs

Not to get on your back or anything...

Show me defiant

Tough life of an amigurmi kitteh

Annoyed kitteh is annoyed

Resting during my photo shoot

BFFs

For this last shot, may I straddle you?

Yarns used: Vanna's Choice.  Patons.  Red Heart