pardon me -

- while I pack up some yarn

to get ready and go to the Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair this weekend, in Cummington, MA!

I am in the Sliver Moon booth, which is in craft barn #2.

Hope to see you there!!!!

Cummington loot

I still owe you pictures of my purchases at the MA sheep and woolfest: at the same time, I am trying to learn working with the new post editor I just found on blogger.

Yeah I went a little nuts with the spinning fiber....(I also bought two skeins of yarn for a stealth project.)

Here is the pin from Leslie Wind. It's a cool one-handed design! No fussing with a pin. This easily hooks into your shawl with one hand!

Since Leslie was so generous and gave me the pin, I had to puchase this:

I love anything to do with sheep, and this little sheep pin - about 3/4 inch wide - was just too sweet to pass up.

This weekend I am going to take a spinning class at WEBS in Northampton, "Hone your Handspinning". I can't wait! My little wheel is going to get quite a workout. Barbara Parry of Foxfire Fiber is the teacher.

Cummington & Northampton

Last Saturday, my friend Anna and I went to the Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair in Cummington.

We admired hand crafts of all kinds, such as these beautiful baskets:


Spunky Eclectic was on my shopping list (no loot photos yet!).

I got a copy of Amy's book, which she autographed for me.

Then we visited my yarn in the Sliver Moon booth :0

and admired the amazing work that Kay and Laurie do.

Of course one must stop to say hello to some fiber animals.

This jewelry maker had contacted me before the festival because she saw my Citron shawl on my blog.

She absolutely insisted on giving me one of her shawl pins! I was blown away by her generosity. (I still have to take an adequate picture of it.)

The Tidal Yarns booth is always a delight -- all natural wool dyed with plant dyes. I am working on a stealth project for which I didn't have enough, so I got two more skeins.

At Holiday Yarns, I spotted the Tsock Tsarina next to Jennifer.

And this fiber....is just so much eye candy... a dream for felters and spinners....

Well. And as if all that wonderful fiber wasn't enough, we decided after our picnic lunch to drive (well, Anna did all the driving) the 20 miles down to Northampton and go to Webs, where in the warehouse, I saw some ecologically packaged yarn.

The Webs store....

...and one of the aisles in the warehouse. Not sure where the shoppers went when I took the pictures!

We ended our expedition by going to a coffeehouse, and knitting for a while....

Ahhh. A good friend to share the day with. Just what the doctor ordered!