Here’s a pic of me at the MSWF.  We walked all the way down to the end and the Main Big hall is in the long building you see in the back of me.  This was on sunday and there was still a pretty good crowd.  I’m glad we went on sunday because I’ve always wanted to ask Indgo Hound and Susan at Susan’s Fiber Shop more about the carding combs.  Just so happened that Susan was available and she showed me how to use them and even got me to sit at one of her wheels and spin right off the comb.  I’ve never done that before .  The weather was really nice and not too hot.  Wish I would have been more trigger happy with the camera but maybe next time.  I did have a celeb sighting of Jill Draper who is on Creativebug.  I saw some yarn in a booth right across from Susan’s Fiber Shop and noticed it was some of Jill Drapers yarn.  I was like, Oh – that’s Jill Drapper yarn.  Then I looked up and there she was right across from me and chatting with someone else.  I wanted to say something, Like Oh my blessed skeins almighty, but I got all sheepish and lucky for her I didn’t make a fool of myself about it all.  So next time maybe I’ll be brave enough to introduce myself and see if she will let me get a photo with her.  She offers her yarns (hand dyed) online and she has classes on the Creativebug site.

The other pic is of some of the violets growing around here.  One of my favorites is the mini violet.  Took the photo with it along side a larger violet to give an idea of its size.  They do well under florescent light and we have them over the sink in the kitchen.  The other larger one is near a window so it gets the filtered light there.  The kitchen doesn’t have a window so it didn’t seem to do well there so I moved it where it would get more light but the little violets love it in the kitchen.  They have little bitty purple flowers and pointy green leaves.  Too cute.  I thought about getting one of those brandy sniffter type of classes and putting one in there like a terrerium with moss and a rock or something.  Hmmmm……….

Made it to the MSWF on a last minute whim.  Got a call from a gal I met at a sock knitting class and she wanted to be bop up there for a day and we just decided to go for it.  We both work crazy schedules so the only day we could both go was on sunday.  Her mom came along and we all left before the sun came up that morning and came home when the sun went down.  It made for a long day but was a good time and it was soooo nice to see some of the vendures that I’ve seen in the past.  Susan from Susans fiber shop gave me a lesson on how to use a set of carding combs so now I know how to use them.  I’d like to get a pair at some point and you can spin right off the comb too.  I always say I’m going to take lots of pictures but that just never happens.  There is too much to get involved in and too many people to chat with and its like WOW!  Any way, here’s a pic of something I think is – WAY COOL!  I almost bought this thing, HA.  For those of you who think you have crochet everything here you have it a rock cover/cozy.  I am soooo gonna make one of these.  Would this be considered yarn/thread bombing?  Hmmmm, not sure.  Anyway, isn’t it neat.  Got a few photos but not much.  Couldn’t get my camera to take a pic of this without the flash blurring it out so my friend took the pic and sent it to me from her phone.  THANKS!  I did buy two hanks of yarn, a pattern for a scarf, a batt of yellowy orange fiber to spin and a pattern for a quilt and felting needle.  The quilt pattern shows you how to do felting on a piece of wool material and then you can embellish it with sewing/needlework etc. and use it in a bag, quilt whatever or where ever you imagination takes you.  So if I get around to it I’ll take a pic and share it.  HAPPY MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND