{"id":1391,"date":"2005-09-18T19:03:54","date_gmt":"2005-09-18T23:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2005\/09\/fiber-festival\/"},"modified":"2005-09-18T19:03:54","modified_gmt":"2005-09-18T23:03:54","slug":"fiber-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2005\/09\/fiber-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiber Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie and I went to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gvhg.org\/fest.html\">fiber festival<\/a> today!<br \/>\n<center><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"fiberfest_goodies.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/crafts\/2005\/fiberfest_goodies.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"294\" \/><\/center><br \/>\nI think I showed amazing restraint, coming home with just 8 oz. of fiber (who can leave a fiber festival without fiber?), a new drop spindle (to replace the one Murphy destroyed), one skein of sock yarn (to join the other 18 dozen skeins I already have), and a llama doll.  Oh, and there was a sheep tape measure, but that was for my mom and I gave it to her before I took the picture.  Certainly compared to <a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/000466.shtml\">Rhinebeck two years ago<\/a>, I hardly bought a thing!<\/p>\n<p>The blue\/green\/purple combo is a merino\/tencel blend.  The seller was tactfully trying to tell me it&#8217;s not so good for a beginning spinner, but I couldn&#8217;t resist it.  I&#8217;ll practice before I try it!  The rainbow colored top is wensleydale, which is good for a beginner.  The spindle is <a href=\"http:\/\/journeywheel.com\/spindles.php\">a Bosworth<\/a>, and is made from chochin rosewood.  (It currently has some very basic wool on it so I could remember how to use a drop spindle!)  And the llama doll is for Carrie.<\/p>\n<p>The neat thing about the llama doll?  I swear Carrie&#8217;s been saying &#8220;llama&#8221; all afternoon.  At least, if I say it she&#8217;ll repeat the sounds.  And if I ask her where the llama is she goes and picks it up.  Could &#8220;llama&#8221; be her first word?  I&#8217;ll see if she says it tomorrow too.  (Although, technically, she says &#8220;duh&#8221; for duck and &#8220;daw&#8221; for dog pretty consistently too, so those could also be first words&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Here are <a href=\"\/images\/galleries\/fiberfest\/index.html\">more pictures<\/a> of our adventure.  (Including fuzzy fibery animals!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carrie and I went to a fiber festival today! I think I showed amazing restraint, coming home with just 8 oz. of fiber (who can leave a fiber festival without fiber?), a new drop spindle (to replace the one Murphy<\/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-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","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=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}