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I figured I’d buy a mix of fleece and yarn at this year’s fest. Instead I bought lots of yummy fiber and no yarn at all.
This is West by Southwest handpainted wool roving. It’s course wool so I’m thinking some kind of outer wear garment. Maybe a hat? It’s 4 oz. so I’ll probably pair it up with some other handspun.
The next two bags are from Lonesome Stone. Last year I got to their booth too late and they were practically sold out of their fleece. This year I made sure to get there early.
Both bags are 90% alpaca and 10% merino wool roving. I’ve started spinning the periwinkle roving and it is heavenly to spin. I love it so much!
I bought some dyed mohair locks for my mother and green man art pieces. The vendor Marie, from the Durakai Sheep ranch, was very helpful and gave me some great advice about needle felting.
Sunday I walked around and tried to buy yarn. Here’s what I got instead:
Llama fleece. It’s such a lovely natural color and feels so soft. I couldn’t resist.
I have so much yummy fabric to spin. I’m really grooving with my spinning wheel these days.
October 16th, 2009
Every year the Taos Wool Festival is so much fun. What a wonderful weekend.
At the Ravelry tent I met Ellen (and her husband Larry) from Los Angeles. She made this cute crocheted headband.
This rocking horse from Ellen’s Wooly Wonders had a knit giraffe animal on it’s head. That and the monkey cracked me up.
Some pretty dried flowers.
This guy walked by me wearing this awesome hat. I asked if I could take his picture and he gave it to me to try on. It’s a wild one! Warm too.
One of Merce’s felt skulls.
A buffalo felt purse. Expensive but oh so pretty.
Thebes thought this one looked cool. It looks so manly.
Yarn goodness.
A knit hat. I need to make one for myself one of these days.
A pretty spinning wheel.
Some felt bags in the Lonesome Stone booth.
A pretty felt bag with dyed mohair locks detail.
A gorgeous woven shrug.
This is the biggest skein I’ve ever seen. The vendor told me it was 1,400 yards, enough for a sweater.
Laura took this funny pic of me.
She also took this picture of Benk, a spinner and knitter from Santa Fe. She spun this vest all from one fleece.
Another pic of my ribbon because I’m still excited about it.
These little goats were so cute. I wanted to take them home.
These two were cute as well.
I simply adore alpacas. They are just beautiful creatures.
Next up-the goodies I brought home.
October 15th, 2009
I had such a great time at this year’s Taos Wool Festival. Here’s me and Abbey:
Abbey and Merce in their booth:
Merce had some of these handspun woolen bowls.
What to use them for? Abbey had a clever idea:
This woman makes groovy clothing. Her name is Lynn and her designs can be seen at her website Lynnie B. Creations.
Her needle felted poncho won first place. She let me try it on and pose for a photo.
Not only is it gorgeous it felt great to wear too.
The Ravelry tent was a fun place to hang out. We knit, spun and ate cupcakes. What a great day.
Here’s the two yarns I entered into the yarn competition, novice category. The purple yarn is Churro wool and the gray is Icelandic wool booth bought at last year’s fest. While I didn’t win any ribbons I did get great feedback from the judges. I plan to enter again next year.
Thebes and Daniel pose with Aurora. They look so handsome.
Then we got a group photo. This is one of my faves.
October 14th, 2009
Abbey entered her felted entrelac bag into the bag competition at the Taos Wool Fest.
She won second place.
Meredith entered her wool 3 ply handspun yarn into the yarn competition.
She won reserve champion and second place in the novelty yarn division.
Merce entered a piece into the wall art competition. This piece appeared in the Beyond The Fringe show.
She won third place.
She also entered her wool and lichen yarn in the novelty yarn division. (Yup, that’s real lichen in there!) She won grand champion and first place.
Congratulations you three!
I modeled my sweater and ribbon at the Ravelry tent. Laura took this pic:
October 12th, 2009
Last weekend was the Taos Wool Festival. I had a fabulous time!
I have a lot of photos from the weekend and will breaking them up into several posts.
This year the festival organizers provided Ravelry with a large meeting tent. Here’s Laura, Meredith, Tara and David getting together.
Meredith got attacked by a Dr. Who scarf. Pink Porcupine is behind her. She’s an Albuquerque knitter that I met over the weekend.
A clever way to advertise some fleece:
Check out these gorgeous felt scarves:
This is a rectangular loom for weaving scarves. Clever design.
Speaking of clever designs, this triangle loom was interesting. The vendor gave me a quick tutorial on how to use it. The warp and weft is done at the same time.
Abbey and Merce shared a booth this year.
Their booth was very colorful and groovy. I tried to visit in the morning and it was packed with people. I waved and came back later.
Here’s Merce wearing my Luna Valentine Shawl. It was fun to collaborate with her.
Normally I hate dolls but this needle felted skeleton figurine was quite cool.
I met a fellow knitter named Lauri at the Ravelry tent who had this gorgeous bag. She spun the wool, knit and felt it. Stunning!
A pretty pillow with great texture:
I liked the color in this woven poncho.
There was colorful yarn everywhere.
More to come soon.
October 9th, 2009
Recently Abbey and I went to Santa Fe on a yarn crawl. I gave my yarn store reviews in this post.
At Tutto I bought pre-made Opal socks. It gave me quite a giggle to buy ready to wear socks at a yarn store.
The label says they’re “factory-knit sale sample over-runs”. They came in one size fits all. They’re a little big on the toe but I think they’re comfy. Plus the tops have elastic knit into the ribbing so they stay up perfectly.
Next up is the yarn I bought at Oodles. Ever since reading the Knitter’s Book Of Yarn I’ve been interested in trying different types of fiber. This is Araucania yarn made out of sugarcane.
It has a shine and drape that reminds me of silk. The woman running the store had a top in this exact colorway so I got to see what it looks like knit up.
As soon as Tubey and Che purse #2 are done I’m casting on for a little shrug.
When we were at Looking Glass Yarn & Gifts Abbey found these Knit one, sip one coffee mugs and got us both one.
It’s super cute!
August 13th, 2009
Last month Abbey and I went to Santa Fe for a yarn crawl. We found three yarn stores we hadn’t visited before.
First up was Tutto:
This was a nice sized store with good lighting. Lots of pretty yarn and a diverse book section. There were also a lot of knit samples so you could get an idea of what the yarn looked like worked up, something I particularly like. Abbey got some made in NM yarn here for her Wool Fest projects.
I bought some groovy socks here that I’ll blog about soon.
After that we went to Oodles. I forgot to get a picture of the outside and they don’t have a website yet. If you park in the pay parking by Tutto you can easily walk over to Oodles if you walk around the Hilton hotel.
This store is smaller but they have a good amount of yarn. There was lots of pretty handpainted yarn and several shelves of beads. I bought some sugarcane yarn here that I must put on the needles soon.
Our last stop was Looking Glass Yarn and Gifts.
This store is run by two sisters who were fun to chat with. We laughed a lot in this store.
There’s several rooms to explore with lots of pretty yarn and plenty of books and patterns to choose from. I bought a felted bootie pattern here. Abbey bought some sweet sock yarn and got knitting mugs for both of us.
Check out this adorable ball of yarn candy:
For lunch we ate at the Whole Hog Cafe.
The food was amazing. The beans and coleslaw reminded me of old fashioned Ozark cooking. Mmmm. But the best part was the ribs:
There was a six pack of bar-b-que sauces on each table. Yummy!
I love eating ribs. There’s just something so primal about it. Here’s me channeling my inner animal:
If you love BBQ this is the place to go. It was delicious!
August 6th, 2009
Thebes had a dentist appointment the other day. We took Sieben along and took him down to the river. Here’s Sieben walking down the trail:
We had so much fun!
I’d throw up water and Sieben would catch it in his mouth. So cute.
Lots of flowers are in bloom.
He was so happy on our little adventure.
I took along Tubey for my car knitting:
July 18th, 2009
I figured out how to sign my art.
These “signature patches” are going on the back of my pieces. While “Twilight ‘09″ seems like the obvious choice I couldn’t resist going with my nickname. Seems more hip.
Thursday night we got an intense spring storm. Friday morning we woke up to this:
Sieben naturally was in doggie heaven. He loves the snow.
Check out this huge icicle:
As I’m typing this blog post it sounds like we’re about to get more snow.
Prana didn’t stay outside for long.
Guess who forgot to turn the wheelbarrow over after using it last time? Oops!
March 29th, 2009
The official Beyond The Fringe postcards are finished and have been ordered. It will be so exciting to actually hold one in my hands! Here’s what they’ll look like:
Beyond The Fringe
A fine fiber art exhibition
Venue
The Stables Gallery
133 Paseo del Pueblo Norte
Taos, NM 87571
(575)758-2052
April 3, 2009 through April 7, 2009
Opening Reception
April 3, 2009, 5-7 pm
Artists
Violette Alby
Noel Anderson
Pat Dozier
Connie Fernandez
Lizzie Gulick
Kimberly Hamill
Carolyn Hinske
Mary K. Lyon
Merce Mitchell
Nina Silfverberg
Twilight
Faith Welsh
Abigail Z
February 6th, 2009
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