Tour De Fleece 2012



So I totally did participate in the Tour De Fleece this year.  Unfortunately, my camera's memory card ate all of the pictures before I could upload them here.  They are all over on Facebook.  I would save them and upload them here, but the quality is horrible.  So just pretend there were more bobbins of the stupid brown romney fleece (I literally have one more bobbin's worth of fleece left to spin, I will get to it before next year's tour) and a random skein of yarn and a skein of yarn spun for a swap partner.

 

 Instead of all of those wonderful pictures, I will leave you with a cute picture of Itchy and Heidi.  They really do like each other.

Mountain State Arts and Crafts Fair

 Another year, another 4th of July and another Mountain State Arts and Crafts Fair.  We had a different booth set up this year and I really liked it.  But I really could have stood for it to be a little bit less hot.  

First up, our booth.

 And there was a lovely vendor there who had just enough drop spindles to sell to the 4 of us working the booth.  It will make a very nice plying spindle.  It is a bit heavy for most of what I spin.

 Holy Crap!  I learned to shuttle tatt!!!

I also finally rounded out my completion of all of the hands on crafts available by playing in the wood turning booth. This one is a bit harder than the others.

Visited the stained glass booth again.  I really liked the project for this year.  The candle holder would have been nice to have for the giant power outage that happened before the fair this year. 

In all, a very good fair this year.

Stuff I've made since the last time I did a post like this

God Lord it has been a while since I've done this. 

Are these snow cones?  No, cupcakes!  I made these for our guild picnic in May.  Stole the idea from Bakerella. 

My first attempt at using the Ruffle yarn of doom.  I wasn't a huge fan of the result so it went home with Tiffany. 

I wanted to use up the remnant of a skein of Malabrigo Rios.  What better way than to turn it into a necklace.  Mmmm...Malabrigo.

I made a skirt. 

My mom's birthday shawl.  Made with Claudia's Handpainted fingering weight yarn.  It is the Traveling Companion Shawl pattern

And this one is one of my favorites.  It is the Pax shawl by Aoibhe Ni.  It is constructed using tunisian crocheted lace.  I love it.