It was inevitable...

Sunday afternoon I drove down to Franklin, Indiana, to the Hoosier Hills Fiberarts Festival with my oldest daughter and a few of my Indy Mad Knitters friends. (I'm linking to it, but it's almost not worth bothering, because even though the fair is already over, most of the pages still say "coming soon". Suuuure they are...)

I took these 2 pictures before I was apparently so overcome by the yarn and fiber fumes that I completely forgot to take any more.

My oldest there in the green dress, watching a sheep get sheared.


I suppose it was inevitable that when I took my 9 year old to a fiberarts fair that I ended up with a pound of roving. I'm sure I'm going to end up playing with it, too.
Half a ound of Coopworth from Buerer Sheep Farm (sadly, not on the internet). And a couple of smaller quantities of dyed Romney. I also picked up some felting needles and some Ecological Wool at a great price. DD also got a new latch hook and a lucet from Sistermaide.
Now I have to get her to a craft store so we can make a drop spindle.
Janet was also sucked in to the spinning thing. Eric restrained himself to 1 skein of beautiful pink laceweight merino. I don't know how he did it (though I suspect it had something to do with having just dropped a bundle in the Golden Thimble going-out-of-business sale).

Embellishments

Here are final pictures of the 2 custom order shorties I just finished. I LOVE them and I was sorely tempted to say something horrible befell the fairies so that I could put them in a frame on my wall instead of give them away.

It's a picture heavy post, but I think they're worth it!

Fairies Shorties

Yarn: Custom dyed 100purewool plus a variety of whatever I had around wool for the embellishments

Size: Custom

These were special ordered by a friend who said surprise me!
Believe it or not I had more problems with the mushrooms than the fairies.






Camping Shorties

Yarn: Local

Size: newborn

These were special ordered for a shower gift. She asked for an outdoors/camping theme.

School's Out!

But before it was over I took this picture of half of the teacher washcloths, wrapped around a nice organic soap.

One of my daughters is autistic, and she has some simply amazing teachers, aides, and therapists at school. So each one, plus both of my other daughter's great teachers, got a hand knitted wash cloth in appreciation of all their hard work this year.

I only took pictures of half of them, I forgot the other half. But there *were* 14.

Anyone care to guess?


I've been working on this design for these shorties for a while now. I got all the yarn dyed the shades that I need, (and some that I already have). It's all charted and I'm ready to start.
Any guesses what it's going to be? I'm so excited to work on it I can hardly stand it.