{"id":822,"date":"2008-09-21T22:21:16","date_gmt":"2008-09-22T02:21:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2008\/09\/first-fiber-festival\/"},"modified":"2008-09-21T22:21:16","modified_gmt":"2008-09-22T02:21:16","slug":"first-fiber-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/2008\/09\/first-fiber-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"First Fiber Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Anna went to her first fiber festival today.  I don&#8217;t think she was too impressed with the fibery beasts (she slept right through seeing any of them) but she <em>loved<\/em> all the colors we saw.  Some of those colors came home with us:<\/p>\n<p><center><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/crafts\/2008\/hemlock_loot.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" alt=\"hemlock_loot.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p><p class=\"caption\">Clockwise from 12:00 &#8211; Black Cherry Panda Bamboo yarn from <a href=\"http:\/\/spinningbunny.com\/\">Spininng Bunny<\/a>, Mixed Berries alpaca\/wool\/nylon tie-dye sock yarn from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alpacasetc.com\">Golden Oak Alpacas<\/a>, Salvia 100% merino superwash fingering weight yarn from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mypollywogs.com\/\">Pollywogs Yarn and Fiber<\/a>, Leaves Panda Bamboo yarn from <a href=\"http:\/\/spinningbunny.com\/\">Spinning Bunny<\/a>, 12 oz. Cassis merino top from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cloverleaffarms.com\/\">Cloverleaf Farms<\/a>, and finally, an unknown content batt from a shop I didn&#8217;t catch the name of&#8230;I think I accidentally fell down and bought it so it wouldn&#8217;t become &#8220;The Batt That Got Away&#8221;!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Carolyn&#8217;s favorite part was the sheep!  And the alpacas!  And the llamas!  I think if we could have passed it off as a dog she would have taken one of the tiny little Shetland sheep home with us.  We added to Carrie&#8217;s collection of fibery stuffed animals with a handsome chocolate llama, and started Anna&#8217;s collection wth a floppy lamb lovey with a fuzzy tummy.  Aren&#8217;t they cute?<\/p>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/images\/crafts\/2008\/hemlock_toys.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\" alt=\"hemlock_toys.jpg\"\/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>\nNext month: Rhinebeck.  Because, you know, I need more wool like I need <strike>a hole in the head<\/strike>&#8230;well, actually, one can never have enough wool.<\/p>\n<p>(More pictures from the festival can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kodakgallery.com\/I.jsp?c=uknz3dj.a2p98yjv&#038;x=1&#038;y=-216tdw&#038;localeid=en_US\">here<\/a> &#8211; Kodak Gallery album, requires sign-in.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna went to her first fiber festival today. I don&#8217;t think she was too impressed with the fibery beasts (she slept right through seeing any of them) but she loved all the colors we saw. Some of those colors came<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,5,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anna","category-crafts","category-shop-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","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=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sarahsthreads.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}