{"id":278,"date":"2003-10-18T22:58:37","date_gmt":"2003-10-19T02:58:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/10\/overwhelming\/"},"modified":"2003-10-18T22:58:37","modified_gmt":"2003-10-19T02:58:37","slug":"overwhelming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2003\/10\/overwhelming\/","title":{"rendered":"Overwhelming!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the first word that came to mind when my mom and I got to the fiber festival.  We saw wool in every form, every blend, every color, every weight I&#8217;d ever imagined, and several combinations I hadn&#8217;t!  <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/crafts\/rhinebeck\/my_first_yarn.jpg\" width=\"168\" height=\"200\" alt=\"\" align=\"right\">Let&#8217;s see&#8230;other than fiber we saw: a lady spinning a bunny, several breeds of sheep, alpaca and llamas, and lots of cute sheep dog puppies.  I got to meet <a href=\"http:\/\/girlreaction.prettyposies.com\/\">Carolyn<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bolgenlaw.com\/blog.htm\">Claudia<\/a>, as well as several other knitting bloggers.  That was pretty neat!  Claudia was kind enough to show me how to use the beginners&#8217; drop spindle I bought&#8230;check out my first yarn!<\/p>\n<p>So, what other goodies did I get besides a drop spindle?  You&#8217;ll have to wait and see!  You&#8217;ll also have to wait for the weird coincidence story &#8211; I&#8217;m much too sleepy to write about it right now!<\/p>\n<p>I think that the Rhinebeck festival is going to be an annual &#8220;take time to fondle the fibers&#8221; trip.  Only, next time, I&#8217;m not staying at the Ramada Inn (the pillows were hard as rocks, and they could have substituted sandpaper for the towels &#8211; they would have been softer that way!), I&#8217;m not stopping at any rest stop that contains a Roy Rogers (ummm, I was able to <i>wring<\/i> the grease out of my sandwich), and I&#8217;m staying for two nights (if I have to get in the car anytime in the next three weeks, it will be too soon!).  Oh, and I will, next road trip, remember to <i>test<\/i> the @!#$% audio book on my iPod <i>before<\/i> I leave, so at least I&#8217;ll be prepared when it won&#8217;t play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s the first word that came to mind when my mom and I got to the fiber festival. We saw wool in every form, every blend, every color, every weight I&#8217;d ever imagined, and several combinations I hadn&#8217;t! Let&#8217;s see&#8230;other<\/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-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","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=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}