Go on Check it out… The Kidnapped Can Opener.  You know you want to join the fun.

Wow, now that it’s all out in the open, I think I got a little carried away, but I had fun and will continue to have fun with the haul.   This post is picture heavy, so I used thumbnails, click to embiggen.

Some spinning was done, just a wee bit on the drop spindle, since I decided not to bring my wheel. 

This is my first actual spindle spun yarn.  The darker stuff with the red in it, I picked up a while back, when I was out with the girls, it’s a Merino/Tussah silk blend. The pink and blue is Shetland, just a sample that came from the Persistent Knitter, she was culling out colors from some roving for her 2nd single, to mute the pinks in the other single when she plied so she gave me and a few others in our spinning group a sample of the yarn.

 The Damage

From Chamelion Colorworks, the first 2 are Optim, next to that is BFL, and last but most certainly not least is this wonderful slice of nirvana, it’s an ounce of Guanaco. Yes I know it sounds like something the bat left behind, but it’s not, it’s from the Camelid family, it’s the baby sister of the llama and alpaca, and the big siter to the Vicuna, it’s wonderfully soft!

This vendor is going to have to deal, because I can’t quite remember who it is, and I don’t have any business cards with me right now.  The first is a lovely bag, and the 2nd is what came in that lovely bag, 1 glorious ounce of Qiviut, it’s the downy undercoat of a musk ox. Next to that is 1 oz of Bufallo mixed with 25% Cashmere and 25% Silk.

So I got the bowl from the above vendor, I’ve been looking for a small wood bowl for Tahkli spinning.  Again with the faulty memory, I can’t seem to recall this vendor either, but the darker spindle is a drop spindle, it’s got a whorl is square with rounded corners, it spins like a dream, thanks Sachi for test driving it for me. Oh, go check her out, she got more pictures than I did, and she was my partner in crime.  Although, she was a bit more restrained than I was.

So I have to give up on vendors at this point, since apparently I can’t remember very many if any of them.  Each braid is 1 lb, I will eventually ply both together, for a sweater.

Ahhh, a vendor I can remember Blue Moon Fiber Arts.  The 1st is a Sheep to Shoe kit, I have no idea the color way.  The 2nd is Puck’s Mischief in a Bamboo/wool blend.

And here we have Pygora goat, 1 oz purple and 1 oz pink, to be plied together eventually.  Yes Sachi, the pink was picked up Sunday morning on my way out of town, as are the next 2 items.

The Octopus (as nick named by my DH), is a merino/silk blend, and I was caught hugging it late Saturday afternoon, even worse I was caught shoving it into Sachi’s hands to hug as well.

I’ll be the first to admit, I’m not particularly fond of bottom whorl spindles, just not happy with the balance, but this little gem was simply to good to pass up, and it really does spin nicely.  It comes with 2 whorls, a big one and a smaller one, you can spin with one or both.  It also came with a cord, one of the whorls was hanging on that cord, so it can be used as a necklace, best of all, the spike can be used as a hair stick.  What a great idea, I simply had to have it after taking a 2nd and 3rd look at it, so it got picked up on the way out Sunday.

Also picked up but not pictured, a Woolee Winder for my Lendrum.  I know, I know, I said I didn’t need one, but sometimes a girls gotta do what a girls gotta do.  I got home, and found the Woolee Winder for my Matchless and my Rockin’ Sock Club installation.  Oh yeah, I bought a Rockin’ Sock Club bag as well, but silly me, totally forgot to take a pic of it, maybe next time.  One last item was purchased on my way out Sunday, a DVD on Rigid Heddle weaving, although with all this fiber, who knows when I’ll get around to doing some more weaving.

 Oh and Sachi, I did end up getting that one fiber I was hugging late on Saturday, when I stopped by on my way out Sunday morning .

No pics yet, I’ll get those before the weekend is out and have them posted likely early next week at the latest, because I’m off to the Black Sheep Gathering for the weekend, and I’m so excited, I was up at 5 this morning even though I don’t have to go into the office and have to wait for rush hour traffic to die down, since Eugene is on the other side of Seattle from me, and traffic heading in that direction in the morning simply ain’t pretty.

I’m off to finish packing.