{"id":1128,"date":"2006-09-17T20:54:45","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T00:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/09\/fiber-festival-06\/"},"modified":"2006-09-17T20:54:45","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T00:54:45","slug":"fiber-festival-06","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2006\/09\/fiber-festival-06\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiber Festival ’06"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carrie and I went to the Finger Lakes Fiber Arts Festival<\/a> today. It’s tiny compared to Rhinebeck, but very manageable to take a toddler to. Carrie was pretty happy to sit in her stroller and take in the sights, which is quite unusual for her lately. She really enjoyed seeing all the fiber-y animals:<\/p>\n

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She also really enjoyed the fresh-squeezed lemonade I bought for us to share. Can’t say that I blame her, it was really tasty!<\/p>\n

I, of course, made a few fiber-y purchases. I decided before I went that I would not buy myself any more roving, because I haven’t spun anything<\/i> since last year<\/a>. Once I actually start using what I have I’ll allow myself to buy more. Yarn, on the other hand, has been moving through my craft room at a fairly rapid pace, so I didn’t have any qualms about adding to that stash. <\/p>\n

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From left to right: a sheep doll to go with the llama doll I bought for Carrie last year, a poly drive band for my spinning wheel (the twine ones keep fraying), pink 50\/50 wool\/tencel sock yarn from Ellen’s 1\/2 Pint Farm<\/a> and the Ellen’s Sox pattern to go with it, two skeins of blue Koigu, The Shepherd’s Rug<\/a> (a book that might help me convert some of my roving stash into braided rugs), 500 yards of a wool bouclé yarn, and a bean soup mix from Healthy Sisters’ Soup & Bean Works<\/a>. Not pictured: something that is going to someone as a gift sometime before the end of the year.<\/p>\n

I know that seems like a lot, but I think I showed fabulous restraint. I seriously considered several lovely skeins of natural tweedy alpaca, ginger-scented sushi-shaped soap, a needle-felted pumpkin kit, and many other hand-dyed goodies that you just can’t find in (most) yarn shops. It’s a good thing we were only there for three hours!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carrie and I went to the Finger Lakes Fiber Arts Festival today. It’s tiny compared to Rhinebeck, but very manageable to take a toddler to. Carrie was pretty happy to sit in her stroller and take in the sights, which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}