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.

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.

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:

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.