Another year's festival is over, and such fun it was! If only I didn't
have so much work to do afterwards, as well :)
The website will be updated with lots of pics, etc, in a couple days,
and I'll post it here when done.
Highlights this year:
We opened a new Hospitality Area this year, under the chairmanship of
Teresa Harrison. Fresh, free coffee, tables and chairs to sit, relax,
eat lunch, spin, knit, whatever, a 'fleece to fashion' demo (they used
millspun wool warp and handspun alpaca weft), Letty Klein demo'd braided
roving rugs, Rose Preulx demo'd making hand-knotted Persian rugs, we had
a marvelous shawl show, and on Sunday, the Super Silly Spinning
Competition (spin 2 minutes regular, 1 minute with rubber gloves on, 1
minute blindfolded). May I boast that my daughter won the contest?
<proud grin> She had 36 yards of yarn, with second place at 30 and 3rd
place at 24.
Quite a few new vendors were present, and the place was hopping on
Saturday in spite of chilly, rainy weather. Sunday a little slower, but
the skies cleared up and the autumn colors glowed. Unfortunately for
me, I never had a chance to go through vendor building #1 very well, and
didn't see the best rovings and loveliest batts until I was helping the
vendors carry them to their trailers! Oh well, I know where to go FIRST
next year :) Bethany bought a wonderful spindle she's named supersonic
because it turns so fast, and a vendor gave her 3 oz of painted top as a
thank you for help carrying things out. Vendors are such nice people!
We had some great teachers, including Amy Tyler (cover article Spin-Off
2006) teaching with us for the first time--a very full beginning
spinning on the wheel class, with which I helped a little--and confirmed
my admiration for those who can start students spinning on a wheel (give
me a drop spindle for first teaching, please :) Two ladies brought
lovely antique wheels, with which they struggled, unfortunately. One
woman brought her daughter's boyfriend, who whizzed through learning to
spin, but says he only did it for her, and won't continue, alas. Guys
do generally seem to get the physics/mechanics of spinning much sooner
than we women--we focus mostly on the the aesthetics at first, seems
like. But at least he knows enough to be able to help his prospective
MIL at home. Another great teacher, who specializes in knitting, is
Stephanie Stock--she has had designs in several knitting magazines lately.
Every year our 'friendliest little fiber festival around' keeps getting
more fun, more fiber, and more friendly! One vendor, here for the first
time, kept telling me how kind everyone was--from volunteers to other
vendors. What a great compliment!
The dates next year are 29-30 September. I hope to see some of you there!
Holly
itching to do some spinning instead of wading through papers and
updating the website :)
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