Hook 'n Spin – A true fiber addict

Fall Festivals

In Michigan, the best time of year is the fall.  There are so many festivals taking advantage of the wonderful weather.  Warm, yet not too warm, cool, yet not too cool.

This weekend I took part in an agricultural heritage festival complete with a tractor parade.  It was quite cool actually, seeing half century old tractors looking brand panking new, driven by young people.  I really don’t think that, even with all our technology, we will ever not be reliant on the agricultural society.  Hopefully we will get less toxins, and more organic as our culture awareness grows.

Next weekend has several major Michigan festivals.  The Wool Festival at Mt. Bruce is pretty big for the SE Michigan and Thumb area.  There is also the Northeren Michigan Lamb and Wool Festival out of West Branch.  I’m not sure which of these I most want to go to.  One is 15 minutes away, the other is about 1.5 hours.  Each has it’s own draws, and drawbacks.

One of the neighboring guilds has a day trip planned in November to Zielingers in Frankenmuth. I think I might just have to take a personal day off of work to go.  Priorities, priorities!  Bringing neighborhood guilds together is a very, very good thing.

Projects Galore

I have not posted a whole lot over the summer, but I did get a lot accomplished.

The Alpaca Warmth Project has been taking some of my summer, spinning up that beautiful alpaca.  I have been knitting and crocheting hats, and knitting mittens.  I had never knitted a hat before, so it was a good learning process.  The next item for the project will be a tam.

I took my wheel on vacation to the beach with me…

Right now on the needles are a pair of socks, a shirt that is 2/3ds done in the lime Microspun.  It seems that no one stocks it locally any more, so it will have to wait.

I have some lovely yarn from Knit Picks and the wonder French Girl Knits book that I am trying to figure out which project I want to do next – for me!