I had a pretty busy weekend last week...spent most of the day Saturday spinning at the Hamilton Farmer's market (unfortunately didn't sell a whole lot), and then spent ALL day Sunday at Rhinebeck (aka the NY Sheep and Wool Festival)!
I've always wanted to take a spinning class at a fiber festival, and I figured Rhinebeck was the place to do it! I found 2 spinning classes that looked interesting, and ended up signing up for the one about spinning different thicknesses in yarn (I think it was called "Spin it Thick, Spin it Thin"). The class started at 9am, and Rhinebeck is almost 3 hours from Norwich, so it was quite the early morning. The class was very interesting, but I didn't get as much out of it as I was hoping. (I'm hoping that means I know more about spinning than I originally thought!) It was still a great experience though.
After the spinning class, I went to check out my competition entries. About a month ago, I sent 4 items to be judged: a felted bag with flowers, a handspun Polwarth skein, a handspun alpaca/silk skein, and a handknit cowl. As it turns out, I can't read directions and the festival management can't write directions! I had the cowl disqualified because I used yarn with bamboo, which apparently isn't a "natural" fiber. I also had the alpaca/silk skein disqualified because I forgot to write the fiber content on the information card, even though the directions didn't say to do so! I was bummed, but my other 2 items placed well so I can't be too upset. My Polwarth skein got 3rd in the 2-ply natural wool class, and the felted bag got 2nd in the felted class!
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| My Polwarth skein is the white one in the middle with a ribbon! |
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| My felted bag! |
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| Another picture with better lighting. |
And of course the most important part of the day was shopping! I had 2 Christmas presents to shop for (one was yarn for a cowl, the other can't be mentioned), and found exactly what I was looking for. I also splurged and bought some roving for myself...8oz of dyed Cormo pencil roving, 1 pound of natural Cormo roving, and 4oz of dyed silk! I have no idea what I'm going to do with any of it, but it was too gorgeous to pass up! I'm actually thinking about knitting something for myself out of the dyed Cormo! (Shame on me for not taking pictures of my loot!)
Rhinebeck is also great because of all the entertainment they have! They once again had frisbee and flyball demos from a dog rescue group, as well as sheep herding!
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| Frisbee! |
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| Border collie herding sheep. |
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| She was really good! |
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| Gotta love the border collie crouch! |
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| I miss flyball so much! |
It was a long weekend, but all in all a great one! I have one more long day tomorrow (another farmer's market day in Hamilton), but I'm going to sleep in on Sunday!
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