On Friday night, I stayed over The BF’s so I would be closer to Rhinebeck. It saved me an hour of travel time, but the trade-off was that he was sick and a little whiney. I also had to sleep in a queensize bed with a 6'2" guy and his 3 Maine Coon cats. Oh well, it got me to NYSS&W that much faster.
When I arrived, I met up with two of my girlfriends from our local Ravelry group. They were quite the enablers, although I purchased a skein of laceweight, a half a pound of undyed Polwarth roving and some delicious fried artichokes before I even met up with them. lol
This is Wicket. She is my favorite. Just don't tell the BF.
This one is Honey. This is a regular size laundry basket she is laying in.
And this is Willow. He weighs 30 pounds.
My mission was to get a pound of undyed Cormo, but all the Cormo I came across either felt too rough, or it smelled rancid. Someone told me that smell was probably because it was from a ram, not a ewe. We went from building to building, touching, rubbing and smelling everything we could. Here are some pictures of the wonderfulness that is Rhinebeck:
boothy goodness
alpaca cuteness
3 guesses what these are
The Ravelry Meetup on the hill
Angora bunnies, which I am deathly allergic to
more boothiness
Designer extraordinaire Jesh, Susan and Kathy, who is holding an infamous chicken pot pie
but eating a flourless peanut butter cookie.
And now, pix of my purchases:
This is the most amazing Alpaca I have ever touched/worked with. It is 665 yds. of brown/black
sportweight from Times Remembered. As you can see, I couldn't wait to start making something with this.
I already emailed them and told them I need more. lol
I already emailed them and told them I need more. lol
This is a laceweight from Yarn Place. It's called Graceful and is 903 yards. No clue
why I bought it other than I like the colors. I don't do laceweight. Yet.
8 oz. of Polwarth roving from Sliver Moon Farm. I have a total of 1 pound of
this creamy goodness to spin.
The picture does not do this justice. The jewel tones are so rich in this, it will be a
shame when I spin it and fuck it all up. It is an alpaca/silk blend from Gale's Art.
and this is 8oz. of Merino pencil roving that looks great but smells like vinegar.
Beats smelling like wet monkey, but still. It's all I could smell on the ride home. For 2 hours.
And my favorite thing:
This is a really shitty picture, but too bad. It's a pin- of knit stitches!
How cool is that? Sheesh! I am such a dork! lolol
When I got home on Saturday night, I wound the Alpaca into 2 cakes, sat up until 2am finding the perfect hat pattern for the BF, and cast on. First I made swatches. Yes, I'm a good girl. :-) I doubled the yarn and long tailed 72 stitches on 8's with a 16" cable. It was torture. I went to bed. Sunday morning I went to the store and bought dpn's. I've never worked with dpn's before. I transferred the stitches onto them, then decided that they were cold and slippery, and that I need some nice wood ones. bbwwaaahhhh!!! Also, there were only 4, and it was fiddly, so I found a plastic 9, and rejiggered the stitches. Then I noticed that when I switched from the cable to the dpn's, I hadn't completed the whole circle, so it was half a row off and looking pretty wonky. But all in all, the dpn's were ok to work with.
Soooo, I ripped it out and redid it with a really long cable and magic loop. This seems to be going pretty well. He should have his hat by January.
