Fiber Arts Friday - The cool down

Welcome to Fiber Arts Friday!  This is my favorite blogging day of the week because it's full of amazing fiber artists sharing their adventures.  This week...I am in Tour de Fleece withdrawals.  I thought that I would be ready to take a break from my spinning wheel after a month of intense spinning during every spare minute I had but...it really is my favorite fiber art and I must create yarn magic.  The first two photos are all of my Tour de Fleece 2011 yarns together.  I created a nice array of colors, weights and textures which will be nice for sales in my farm store at upcoming festivals plus I am keeping a couple skeins for my own knitting.  I tried to include the barn and pastures in the photo but the Alpacas decided to be in the back pasture so you can barely seem them.

I finished cleaning off all of my bobbins from the Tour de Fleece to prepare for my next spinning project which is...I don't know yet but I am going to be a vendor at the Wine and Wool Festival at the Sandhill Crane Vineyard in Jackson, Michigan tomorrow and there are a couple of vendors there that I am eager to purchase fiber from.  So...if you are in the greater Jackson area tomorrow, stop by and see the Wonder of Alpaca at my booth, taste some wine and if you are still in the mood for good eats, stop at The Parlour for the best ice cream South East Michigan has to offer.  Seriously, I have been going their since I was a little girl getting the same exact sundae each time...The Peanut Butter Cup --Yum, Yum!  Super Seriously, the Sandhill Crane Vineyard has some great wines too.  I have been visiting them and enjoying their wines for a few years now and I already have been telling you that wine and fiber arts totally go together.

I digress...sometimes I get sidetracked when  think about peanut butter, ice cream and wine (not necessary together).   Ok, back to fiber arts.  During lunch, I have been making headway on my first pair of socks.  Walking on Sunshine may actually get completed before Summer's end.  Yikes.  I only knit a few rows each lunch hour so they have been taking forever but I want to finish them because KellyJ has a new sock pattern coming out and I've had a sneak peak and it's AWESOME!  Seriously, that lady know how to write a sassy pattern. 

I am still weaving my Alpaca and Silk scarf too.  It's taking forever.  Using lace weight yarn for the weft and fingering weight yarn for the warp means that you have to have a whole lotta patience to weave six feet and that is something I struggle with.  I know...it will totally be worth it once it's finished.  Now share your adventures in fiber arts.

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