Yay! It's Fiber Season!

I guess folks took the weather forecast to heart on Saturday.  At CTSW, the crowd kinda swooped  in right at opening time, behaved sort of locust like with the anniversary t-shirts - gone in about an hour and a half.  It seemed like the crowd shopped strong until the heat kicked in as promised, then poof!  Gone.  And I confess, that's how I shopped.  I got to the fairgrounds at about 9:20, dropped off the bunny, table and other stuff I use for the bunny demo, then marched myself right over to the vendor whose fleeces I coveted.  Oh, baby yes!  I scored.  4 beautiful white fleeces, 3 of them lamb.  I did leave a few fleeces for others to drool over consider, cause the pocketbook does have a limit I'm nice that way.  What I didn't do was bring the  fleeces home.  I walked them straight over to Still River Mill's booth.  So far, the only plan for the fleeces is a bath.  I'll decide after NHSW what I want to do with them.

 I also picked up my latest fiber run from the mill.  Oh. Holy. Cow.  13  pounds of orgasm for the hand yummies.  I'm pleased with the result.  Three different blends, each a different colorway.  That 3 color ribbon roving is cormo and angora, I think about 60% cormo - have to check the records to be sure.  The colors aren't showing up quite accurately, especially the navy - you can only see a hint of it in the photo.  Next up is a delicious blend of soft: merino, alpaca, and angora all dyed in soft shades of blue and lilac.  The photo of this one really stinks.  The fiber does not.  I picked up the alpaca fleece last year at a gathering with Alpaca Kathy.  Her fleeces are as lovely as her smile.  This was the first time I've dyed alpaca and I thought I'd ruined it.  Like angora, it came out of the wash and spin just clinically depressed sad.  Well.  At least mine did.  Tangled, mangled and pathetic.  I worried, but clung to the hope that, like angora, it would fluff nicely once dry.  Ohthankyoujesus It did.  And last is my personal can I really sell it off favorite: cormo, angora and silk in a ribbon roving of peppermint.  Yes, it's girly.  Lots. of pink.  But the feel.  Ooo.  Imagine it spun fine and knit into a swirly cascading ruffle of fluff to loop and flirt around your neck.  Yes, some of this will definitely be staying with me.

Then I bought a t-shirt, and other than lunch, I spent not a cent more.  Poof Bear got nekkid in front of a crowd.  Well.  Actually half nekkid.  He wasn't all that inclined to cooperate upside down.  I don't blame him.  It was hot. So I clipped his back, sides, chest, and one hind leg, which covers pretty much all the hold techniques for safe clipping. I love the opportunity to demonstrate bunny grooming at CTSW.  Every year, a crowd gathers and they actually listen to me prattle on about bunny butts and gut stasis and other manner of yuck.  Bunnies gotta be some kind of cute to make people stay for all that.

The rest of the day I spent chatting.  Always so fun to turn around and there's another friend to squeal over reconnect with.  Meet the new babies. Find out who's pregnant. Flirt with a grizzled old bastard.  And I finally got to meet Gale Zucker.  Shear Spirit Gale.  A lovely book, a lovelier lady.  We've been trying to meet for a while now, but truly have opposite schedules.  I love her photography.  And I love fiber season!

Comments

[Divine Bird Jenny]

Ohh, Chris, if you're selling any of the pink, could you let me know how much/oz and bring some to June's meeting? :D

It was nice to get to the festival, even if just for a couple of hours. I wanted a t-shirt very badly but missed out. *sad* At least I got a pin!

[CindyCindy]

A lamb's fleece? OK. I would go for that, too;-D Did Poof Bear get the rest of his fur trimmed or does he still look half-nekkid?

[Laurie]

Only tshirts left when I got there were petite and 3XL. Oh well.

Love the colors, and they DO look soft even in the pix.

[Karen]

Having seen all your fiber in person, I know how pretty it was. But i have to say the middle one... the periwinkle blue was just fabulous!!

[JessaLu]

oooo verra nice...

[Risa]

Ditto what JessaLu said. I know someone who would just lurve that pink stuff....how much? :)

[Leslie]

Lovely fiber! And the festival I went to this weekend was very similar...everyone was there early and then faded away with the heat!

[Manise]

Lovely seeing you despite the heat. I'm definitely hitting your both for some of that roving!