Fiber Festival!!

I was able to go to a fiber festival in my area recently and I had a marvelous time with a friend of mine. We were able to purchase quite a bit. I am looking forward to showing you what I bought but first I want to show you some pictures of some of the animals that were there.

OK here is Humphrey the Camel!

Isn't he magnificent?

And here are a few pictures of some of the alpacas that were there.

I love alpacas they are so cute!

This one had a little baby that wasn't very old.

And here is a llama! A lot of people confuse llamas and alpacas but I think they look nothing alike.

And of course it wouldn't be a fiber festival without a few angora rabbits.

I'm not sure what this fiber is but I thought it looked neat in this very large bag.

More fiber!!!

And this is some Romney roving. I was tempted to buy some but I decided that I would rather get unprocessed Romney and card it myself.

And here is what I bought!

These are roving tidbits that one of the vender's had. I have something in mind for them but you will just have to wait and see what I come up with.

And this is a try me pack. It is full of different wools some of them are Shetland, Merino, and Corridale.

I love all the colors!

And here are my washed  Romney locks!! I purchased half a pound each of the 2 colors I can't wait till I get my hand carders and can start carding this up!!

Such a lovely color!

I also purchased some unwashed and unskirted corridale,merino, and dorset blend fleece. I am excited to start working with this as well. The booth I purchased this fleece at was by far my favorite booth at the festival. The lady had little cards out by all the fleeces and roving's telling you about the sheep it came off of. And she also gave you a card telling about the animal you purchased the fleece or roving from.

Such a marvelous chocolate color!

And finally here is some llama/polworth roving that I purchased! I cannot wait til I have a spindle free to start working on this fiber! It is so soft I am looking forward to whatever I make out of it I'm sure it will be incredibly soft.

Well that's all I have for now. I hope you enjoyed your peak into the festival I went to! I am looking forward to going to a few more festivals this year.  I hope everyone is enjoying the last few weeks of warmth before fall weather hits.

A little quilting.

Well I have been very busy the last few weeks. Summer is coming to a close and it seems like everyone always wants to squeeze as much as possible into the last few weeks of summer. I have had a busy month I had some family come for a visit at the beginning of of the month and we were able to go to the beach and relax for a day. I also had the pleasure of showing my family our local yarn shop and also our quilt shoppe. It was fun to see how the reacted to a store full of luxury yarn! My cousins crochet and would like to learn how to knit so they were very excited to see all the lovely yarn and the pattern books. I especially liked the Noro yarns. They have so many styles and colorways!!


So I decided I was going to try my hand at hand sewing a quilt for my room. Don't worry its nothing to big just a simple wall hanging. I have been working on sewing a queen size quilt for my bedroom and I just thought it would be neat to have a wall hanging above my bed in the same colors and fabrics as my big quilt. So a friend of mine and I sat down one day and she helped me pick out some quilt blocks and plan out my wall hanging. We set to work cutting out one of the quilt blocks and we decided we would cut out all the ones for that particular block seeing as I only needed 6. Well to make a terribly long story short it was a bad decision on my part to not test sew the block before cutting out all 6 and starting to sew them. The first block I sewed up I couldnt get any of the peices to line up, so I thought it was just me being a inexperienced quilter. Well I started on the second and third blocks and they still were not lining up! So in my frustration I decided to wait till I had a friend of mine over who is a experienced quilter. We both looked at the block and measured the templates we made and everything lined up perfectly to the templates but they didnt line up to the other peices that make up the square. So I set it aside for a few months and I finally decided to pick it back up this month. I made the decision that I would just scrap the block I was working on and pick a new one. So I picked out a new block that thankfully used some of the pieces that I had already cut out and now this block is sewing up nicely. I test sewed the block this time before I went and cut out all the peices. While I was cutting things out I decided to snap a few pictures of the mess I made on the table. I hope you will share some of your experiences with knitting or quilting with me and I look forward to hearing you comments

It would not be quilting with out cherry coke!

Cup Cozy Pattern

So I finally decided to try my hand at designing a knitting pattern. My aunt had asked me if I could make a cup cozy for a 1liter bottle of water so I decided to design one of my own. Here is the pattern and I hope you enjoy it and I hope you will let me know how yours turn out. :)  



                                                             Cup Cozy



Materials needed: size US #5 double pointed needles, 1 ball Sugar and Cream yarn (or a worsted weight cotton yarn.)

Yarn needle, scissors.

Note: This cozy will fit a 1 liter water bottle

Abbreviations:

K2tog= knit two stitches together.

Cast on 44 sts.



Divide evenly onto 3 double pointed needles. Join in round, being careful not to twist stitches. Knit 2, purl 2, around until tube measures 5 inches or desired length.

Purl 1 round.

*Knit 3, k2tog, knit 4, k2tog , repeat from * around. 36sts remain

Knit 1 round.

*Knit 4, k2tog, repeat from * around. 30sts remain

Knit 1 round.

*Knit 3, k2tog, repeat from * around. 24sts remain



*Knit 2, k2tog, repeat from * around. 18sts remain

Knit 1 round.

*Knit 1, k2tog, repeat from * around. 12sts remain

Knit 1 round.

*K2tog, repeat from* around. 6sts remain

Cut yarn, leaving a long tail. Thread yarn onto yarn needle and draw through remaining stitches. Pull tightly to close the hole. Turn cozy inside out and secure tail. Weave in your cast on tail. Reverse and it is ready to use.

And here is the finished product