Knit Sisters

Naturally, I did not come home empty-handed from the fiber retreat.  There was a large room devoted to vendors, all of them Missouri fiber producers and retailers.  After all, what’s a fiber festival without a chance to spend some of your hard-earned cash?

So, let’s address the purchases, shall we?

1.  Four ounces of gray wool and silk.  This stuff is supremely fluffy, and I have it on the wheel right now.

                                                           A note:  this was really hard to get a good picture of.  You’ll have to sort of use your imagination, I guess.

2.  One pound of mohair and silk from Chris Hunsburger (the lady I took the mohair class from on Saturday afternoon).  This is her own naturally-colored mohair, blended with green and teal silk noil.  I just fell right in love with this stuff, and, as with all her custom blends, when it’s gone, it’s gone.  So I had to buy a full pound, see? 

                                                Look at the shine on this!  Gorgeous.

3.  Three different small amounts of alpaca roving from a southern Missouri producer.  I bought these just to play around with a bit, maybe do a bit of blending on my small combs.  The price was really right, and even though they are what she calls “seconds,” the quality is still great–better than what you might find in most commercial alpaca “firsts.”

 

4.  One pound of merino/silk blends in four different colorways.  I really like these pre-blended rovings in these kind of streaky (for lack of a better word) colorways.  I bought two “pairs,” with the idea of plying them together for added richness of color. 

 

                                     You can get a little bit of an idea of how they will look by twisting the rovings together.

5.  Eight ounces of merino/mohair blend.  Obviously, I bought this with the same idea in mind.  I really just fell in love with the darker of the two colorways, and then looked for something that would coordinate.  I may still decide to ply these separately, though.

 

That’s the lot.  All in all, I think I was pretty restrained, don’t you?

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