a little behind

The weekend of the 16th, I went to the Michigan Fiber Festival with a friend of mine. Then I never blogged about it because I wanted to wait until I got good pictures of my haul. But then I never took pictures because my camera batteries are dead and I keep forgetting to recharge them. I'm very lazy with the blogging I guess. Finally I realized that if I didn't say something now, I'd never remember to say anything at all, so here's another post with no pictures. Feel free to hate me and stop reading. I'd totally understand.

Anyway, the festival was a lot smaller than last year. Last year we went for one day and barely saw everything, so this year we rented a room and stayed both days, only to discover that we had plenty of time the first day afterall. It worked out ok anyway. We were able to come back on Sunday for things we had waffled about the first day, and it also gave us an excuse to visit the Bell's brewery and have a tasty meal Saturday evening.

I bought: a skein of Socks The Rock Mediumweight in the Rook-y colorway (for a sock project TBD), a skein of Hand Maiden Casbah (mmm cashmere) in a dark red/purple colorway (likely for Pyewacket socks), a skein of Briar Rose alpaca laceweight in a dark blue/green/purple colorway (the bigger version of Laminaria), and a Fleece Artist Thrum Mitten kit with nearly solid turquoise yarn and lime, plum, and blue thrums - oh so soft BFL yarn and merino roving. There were so many great color choices that I could barely decide.

I also got fiber: about 8 ounces of a mostly hot pink superwash merino roving from Yarn Hallow, some superwash merino in dark greens, and a pink merino/tencel blend.

And the highlight of my trip was that I got to spend some time talking with a woman who owns an alpaca farm about my dream of owning alpacas. And then I bought 8 ounces of black alpaca fiber, and 3 of a dark chocolate brown. It's uncarded, so I get to try my carders for the first time. Oh, and it's also the softest fiber I've ever felt in my life. Seriously, if I had the money, I'd have bought the entire trashbag and just rolled around in it. And, for extra cuteness, she wrote the name of each alpaca on the bag of it's fleece so that I can know who I'm working with later. :)

Sadly, I've already got 4 projects on the needles, so I can't let myself enjoy any of my spoils until I get something finished first. Woe is me.