This was my favorite purchase. A hand carved drop spindle. Naturally, I've lost the tag so I can't tell you who made it. It weighs .9 oz. which is the perfect weight for me. As you can see, I've already made use of it.
This would have to be favorite #2: Merino/silk roving from Kimber at Fiber Optic. I can't wait to spin this up. It's going to be gorgeous. And if my plan works out, it'll end up as a shawl. I also bought a yummy bar of ginger/lemon soap that smells wonderful and, Barbara Walkers first treasury of knitting patterns. There wasn't really much I was looking for. I wasn't planning on buying any fiber but Kimber's roving was too beautiful to pass up. I bought two 4 oz. braids.
I have an idea for a shawl that I tried out tonight. Do you know it had been so long since I'd cast on for anything other than socks that I'd forgotten how to do the long-tail cast-on. I had to go find my knitting answer book and then it took me 15 minutes to figure it out from the pictures. Clearly I need to knit more than socks every once in a while. Anyway, my idea didn't work out the first time so it's back to the drawing board.
I'm not really as proud of this as I was the first time I won it, for reasons I pointed out last post. I really hope more people enter spindle-spun yarn next year.
That roving is absolutely stunning! I wouldn't have been able to resist, either.
And your yarn is beautiful. Competition or not, it still deserves a ribbon.
Posted by: gayle | May 13, 2011 at 06:35 AM
Seriously drooling oveer the spindle, the Fiber Optic (note to self: get some!), and your lovely handspun. I did go to MSWF this year so I have to live vicariously through all the blogs!
Posted by: Erin | May 16, 2011 at 06:54 PM