Ouch!
Saturday began with me jumping out of bed at 7am! I was out the door by 7:30, ready and with cash in hand for the wonderful MSWF! I was determined to get up there in time to be one of the first people at the Fleece sale. And damn it I was!
Although I didn’t get a chance to buy the champion fleece (Cormo this year, from Foxhill Farm) I did get to buy two fleeces from Robin Nistock, one is a Finn/CVM/Rambouillet and the other is a cinnamon colored CVM/Rambouillet fleece. Both are stunning, full of crimp and will surely make wonderful knitting objects. I think both of them will be sent to The Drafting Zone to get processed.
Let’s see what else jumped in my bag…
–Sock yarn from Kid Hollow Farm, Ellen’s 1/2 Pint Farm, Foxhill Farm, Three Waters Farm
– Lace yarn from Hunt Valley Cashmere and a hand dyed Alpaca yarn (can’t remember the vendor)
– Yarn from Brooks Farm for two sweaters
– Roving…ahhhhh roving. The usual…Wild Meadow Angora, Foxhill Farm (American Cormo people), Three Waters Farm, Spinner’s Hill, and a batt from Grafton Fibers.
Next time I’ll have the pics to show them off, I swear! Now back to researching my fleeces..what to do, what to do with them.
May 7th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
Wow!!! Such beautiful fleeces!! Jealous? Almost.
May 8th, 2006 at 7:39 am
prize winning cormo from foxhill farm? no wonder i bought all of their worsted! (really - holly, erin, and I cleaned them out by 9:15). I went back the next day to grab 1 more skein of the brown cormo, and they were apologizing that all of their worsted was gone.
I can only imagine how soft that fleece would have been - next year you’ll have to bring reinforcements and take out the competition!
May 8th, 2006 at 9:38 am
Hey … I forgot to ask if you can pass along the contact information for The Drafting Zone … my four fleeces need bathing and carding five minutes ago
Thanks!!
May 12th, 2006 at 2:59 am
Sounds like you had such fun. I’ve goofed up your address and the emails get bumped back to me. Can you send me an email?
May 12th, 2006 at 7:30 am
Carolina! Hi! Thanks for stopping me to say Hi on Saturday! It really was lovely to see you again (despite my very confused look!)! I hope you enjoy all your MSW goodies! Er and I spun some of the cormo roving we picked up at the cormo tent and it is yummmmmmmmy! Very addictive! I can’t wait to see your pictures of all the goodies!