Revive Yourself!

Summer's here.  Spring fiber festival season is over.  Do you feel yourself getting a tad twitchy at the prospect of no fiber festivals for a while?  Well.  If you live or visit in the greater Boston area, you only have to wait until mid August for Fiber Revival.  It's a sweet little festival, very friendly and lots of cuteness.  Was it last year the farm turkey flirted shamelessly with everyone?    Oh, no, my photos say it was 2008.  Whatever year it was, he was quite the guy, puffing up in splendor much of the day.  And there are alpacas, too, of course. I've been to Fiber Revival each year,  as a spinner and a spender, helping another vendor, taking a workshop, and this year, I'm teaching a workshop.  Nuno Felting.  I'll be leading a group of no more than 8 in creating a deliciously drape-able, soft piece of wearable art.  You can follow one of my designs or create your own.  I bring all the materials, but you are welcome to bring along a favorite bit of feltable yarn or other fiber.  The website is not yet updated with workshop info but registration is through me anyway, so you can pre-register with me just by emailing me.  I'll send you all the details.  

There is only one baby left available in Hop Chocolate's litter, a blue buck.  So I guess it's time to introduce the new litter (the last one scheduled for now).  Mother is Moon Shadow, a black silver marten, and dad is Sweet Woolyum, self blue.  There are 5 babies and so far, they look to be 3 otters and two selfs.  Otters?  Yes, I know I said these are rabbits.  Otter is a color pattern in rabbits, fairly new in angora rabbits.  It comes from the tan gene, written as a^t.  That a^t  combined with wideband produces a tan pattern rabbit, and a^t combined with chinchilla gene (yes, still talking rabbit color genes here), produces a silver marten.  Each of these combinations comes in each of the four basic colors: black, blue, chocolate and lilac.  This litter appears to have 2 blue otters, a black otter, a blue self, and a black  self.  I expect to keep the black otter, which means at least one of the blue otters, the self blue, and the self black are available mid-August.  I don't know genders yet cause the babies are only four days old.   I do love having babies around! 

Comments

[Leslie]

Wow, you're getting some interesting colors. The fiber festival sounds perfect; I know your class will be great!

[Harriet]

OOOOhhhhh Babybuns!! The cuteness.