we may look a little sad here... this is our goodbye photo
If you click on that photo, the one on Flickr has "notes" that will help you match faces to blogs (just in case you're curious). I had a really awesome time staying with Heather, Kate, Paula, Anne Marie, Jen, Jess, Sarah B., Maya, Betsy, Amy, Lara - better roomies you could not ask for. And I managed to find Cara, Maggi, Heather, Kelly, Cheryl, Natalie, Brooke, Lolly, and Jenna at the fair, and I met a few new people like Jodi, Norma, Claudia, Sylvia, Theresa and Elspeth, too (and probably others that I'm just not remembering right now)! Knitbloggers are seriously some of the best people in the world. Just amazing.
There were lots of good times - enabling each others' shopping, sharing tasty experimental fair foods (deep-fried Twinkie, anyone?), drinking martinis, joining the gargantuan Meetup on the Hill, staying up late knitting and talking, petting the sheep, watching the slinky sheepdogs, and one last thing...
rolling down the hill
I had a minor wardrobe malfunction in that picture, so please don't zoom in too far, or prepare to be horrified. In order to get photos with no wardrobe malfunction, we had to try the roll multiple times, include one with a mid-hill collision. Maybe we can persuade someone to share those photos when she's feeling better...
And now, the haul. I was more restrained than last year, and even more than two years ago. Actually, looking back at those posts, I have done pretty well with last year's goodies. Many of the things there are knit up (three pairs of the socks, the Brooks Farm mohair) or gifted/swapped (the other Brooks Farm). The 2004 haul I still need to work with, for the most part. Maybe this year.
Anyway, here's what I got on Saturday:
Yarn Haul Ahoy!
Again with the notes on the flickr page - that's handy! But this year my suppliers were again Brooks Fiber (3 years running!) with their Limited Edition wool/silk/viscose blend (60/20/20), and a new candidate, Tess' Designer Yarns with a 900-yard skein of raw silk, sock yarn and angora! One more skein of sock yarn crept in there somehow, plus the logo backpack and a beautiful hand turned nostespinne. No pictures, but on Sunday, I did get just a bit more yarn - 1400 yds of a tweedy cotton blend for $16. Deal!
Once again, going back to work this morning was depressing. But at least I can go back and look at all my pictures whenever I need to relive some fiber festival fun. Hugs to everyone I met!
Posted by Sarah at May 8, 2006 10:58 PM | in: events | PermalinkOkay. There's something decidedly wrong with my body in those pictures. Why oh why do I look pregnant when as far as I know the embryos are still frozen?!?! Freak of nature or just plain old fat?
It was FANTASTIC to see you! I had an awesome time hanging. Thank you!
Posted by: Cara on May 8, 2006 11:19 PMGreat to see you and meet your sis too. What fun we had... you have some great photos on Flickr - I might just have to lift some. I will credit you of course, is that cool? :)
Great haul. You are set with the blues for next month's PS knits!
Posted by: Lolly on May 9, 2006 07:33 AMIt was so good to see you again! Looks like you made out at Sheeps like a Bandit...
Posted by: heather on May 9, 2006 08:53 AMYou didn't mention that you had the *coolest* pants ever on Saturday! Love the bees ;) Wish we had had more time to catch up!
Posted by: natalie on May 9, 2006 09:37 AMYeah for awesome pictures. I missed the fried twinkie but LOVE the fried Oreo's. Miss you!
Posted by: Kate on May 9, 2006 09:43 AMawesome group picture! I don't think we got many of those. :-)
It was so great meeting you! I hope we can do it again sometime soon...
Posted by: maya on May 9, 2006 10:56 AMI don't know how you did that labeling thing on Flickr, but it's extremely cool. I have post-MS&W depression too.
Sigh.
It was great to see you. It get harder to say good bye each time!
You need to get working on this whole beach house idea because I need to hang out with everyone again! So much fun!
:)
Posted by: biglug on May 9, 2006 01:01 PMHi! New commenter to your blog but I've been reading for a while. Great haul at the fest! And I love those Flickr notes, how do you do that?
Posted by: Sarah on May 10, 2006 11:53 AMI remember seeing you, but can't remember if we even got close enough to talk to each other.
Anyway, it was a lot of fun and I can't wait until next year. You got some great stuff, yum.
Hope to see you again soon.
Posted by: isel on May 10, 2006 09:17 PM