Fiber Arts Friday - WWKIP 2010 Recap

Last Saturday we celebrated World Wide Knit In Public Day (WWKIP) at Your Local Yarn Shop (YLYS) here in Battle Creek, Michigan.  What an event!  It was a day to show the world the Awesome Wonder of Fiber Arts and also a day to raise money for the Haven of Rest here in Battle Creek because their was also a Roof Sit on top of the Yarn Shop while we were down below knitting.

In just a few hours the knitters raised $1000 just by attending the WWKIP event.  If you wanted a booth or to shop, you needed to make a donation to the charity and we knitters sure love our yarn so of course, we made donations.

Some of the vendors and knitters who participated in the day.

My Booth...All you see is my Wonder Hat because I'm writing info down for a customer.

This year I decided to be a vendor and had an amazing time showing people what the Wonder of Alpaca is.

This is Kelly, who put the event together and owns the YLYS

SpinSanity also had a booth.  Hooray for Spinny!  She took a break from making her gorgeous awesome spinning spindles but they are back and as beautiful as ever!

 SpinSanity and crew (her talented daughters) displaying the SpinSanity Drop Spindles

Besides selling our awesome products we also shopped and demonstrated how the yummy yarn is made.

I try not to knit in public because it scares away potential knittners so I spin 

Of course, no fiber arts event is complete without the animals the fiber comes from.
School Pond Alpacas brought a few of their Huacaya for the public to see.  Yes, I wondered where the Suri were too but the Huacaya they brought were beautiful.  Don't worry about the Suri Alpaca though, I totally had the breed covered with the roving and yarn I brought plus my Photo Album of Wonder where my customers could see the herd their products came from.

It felt weird being at an event with Alpacas without mine being there but it was nice to focus on fiber arts.

Really, this was a Roof Sit along with WWKIP, here is a DJ who was raising money for the Haven of Rest.  
See, people were up on the roof.

The best part about the day is that we had fun and made a difference for other people.  The Roof Sit raised over $30,000 for the Haven of Rest and it felt good to know that Fiber Arts had a part in the goal.
So what have you been up to this week? Please share you adventures in Fiber Arts!
Fiber Arts Friday Blog Carnival!

To participate:

1. Submit your blog article using your current blog address NOT your complete blog  i.e. you would submit 

http://wonderwhyalpacafarm.blogspot.com/2010/02/e-i-e-i-doh.html  

NOT 

http://wonderwhyalpacafarm.blogspot.com

1. Link back to Fiber Arts Friday from your post so that your readers can come and see everyone else’s projects! Text link to  WISDOM BEGINS IN WONDER!   
2. Visit as many of the other participants as possible and leave comments! That’s what helps us all connect!

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