Trip out of Dodge to the Fiber Fest

Hello Happy Homebuddies!

If you were here, looking out my front window, you would be thinking fall all day long. It is foggy, cloudy and slightly cool. 

A perfect day for planting tomatoe plants in my garden. They won't be a traumatized, no hot sun, or heat, the ground is moist, I will get that done today & perhaps plant a spagetti squash seed.

We made it to the Great Lakes Fiber Fest in Wooster Ohio. 

A first timer, never heard of it before and we had a lovely day. I expected there would be a lot of skeins or hanks of yarn and I wasn't wrong. Many if not every booth had had spun/dyed wool. The yarns were beautiful, some Angora, Alpaca, Llama, and Wool. Pricey but much work goes into getting things from the producer to the consumer.

 There were ladies spinning, adorable Angora bunnies which make beautiful soft fluffy yarn. They are so fluffy and look like small dogs. 

I hope the little video works, it is very short but I didn't have just a picture that I can find. So what you see here is what that is...they are adorable.

I wanted to see the sheep, which for me was the highlight of the day. They were adorable.  I was looking for wool yarn. I've never worked with wool before and had in my mind to find something of a natural color, I thought about making a pocket shawl, and couldn't settle on a pattern, and I found a lovely shawl pattern which is not a pocket shawl at all, which fits well with the yarn.  I began last night.

 I'll share more about that later. 

I purchased 4 skeins of wool yarn in a colorway I would call Oatmeal. Reasonably priced and sourced from the owners farm, she dyes them. While all the yarn was beautiful, it wasn't my cup of tea. I wanted to see the sheep shearing, I think we missed it. Fleece was sold bags and bags of them.

Very interesting how this one beautiful animal creates something which is sustainable, no chemicals and will keep you warm & dry. 

Wool Dryer balls? have you ever? Well I picked up 3 of these.  These replace your fabric sheets or Downy. You can add a few drops of essential oils if desired. I was told that they last about 1 year or so, and the ball will get smaller and smaller. 

I'll show those and the yarn, the project I started in a later posting.