Today has been a perfect fall day, cool and crisp, and yet warm in the sun. It was cool enough to wear a cozy sweater to New York State Sheep and Wool, but not so cool that gloves were needed, or a hat, although at one point I did wear a hat as I bought a wonderful felt and shearling winter hat from Miriam Carter (where G also bought me a Christmas gift for the second year in a row -- I can hardly wait). There is no website, but you can see one of her jackets here .
As usual, I did not buy much and I don't really anticipate buyng much tomorrow although I am still seriously considering a spindle. One of our first stops was Tochay's Farm from Michigan, where I saw some yarn I loved last year and have been thinking about ever since (she did not have enough at that time). So I got the yarn, a wonderful bulky gauge thick & thin yarn, handspun and hand-dyed (of course this is Rhinebeck):
Which is pretty much definitely on my "to be knit SOON" list, especially as it will be on large needles and provide some much needed instant gratification. There might be one or two projects ahead of it in the pipeline though. We will see what the knitting muses ordain. She had another yarn which G fell in love with in grays and browns with a pale soft blue, totally different from the yarn I purchased. Unfortunately another avid knitter had beaten me to the punch and she was sold out.
I loved looking at the sheep and alpacas. There were all kinds of booths with interesting and fabulous yarns and rovings for spinning. I saw a lot of beautiful yarns, but there was nothing really today that cried my name an begged to leap into my bag, and so they all stayed behind. The rovings were especially tempting, but as I have not done any felting despite all my best intentions last year, and since I don't yet know how to spin, no further indulgences in raw materials are needed. Still, one of the nicest things about a sheep and wool festival is being able to look and fondle and talk to people. What a joy.
I did stop by the blogger's meet-up but was so put off by the crush of people milling about that I drifted away. Crowds are really not my thing, and in the sea of faces I recognized none. Better one-on-one or small group encounters for me. So we resumed our wandering. I did see Cara and say hello, only to fall into tongue tied confusion. There seems to be a good reason that my career choices did not include sales and politics.
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