It’s Wednesday night, almost Thursday — it will be Thursday before I finish this — and I’m just getting to posting about the weekend. I’m really looking forward to my life slowing down a little. Wish I had a clue when that will be…

The weekend was cool. I worked Friday, Saturday and Sunday at the Fabulous FiberFest as the knitting consultant. I taught one participant to knit from scratch, and a bunch of others to do things like cast on, purl, make bobbles, work with two colors fair-isle-style, weave in ends as you go, assemble sweater pieces with mattress stitch, and more. I had no chance to take pictures, so it ultimately didn’t matter that I forgot the card and battery recharger for my camera (duh). Thanks to Jillian Neary for the photos below!

Here’s me at my table, with a student:

In front of me, Joan Ruane conducted various spinning events, including a blindfolded spinning contest! Congratulations, Mindi, on winning that both Saturday and Sunday!

Lots of great shopping.

A favorite booth was Habu Textiles:

Another favorite was Carolina Homespun (from whom I bought my drum carder), but I don’t have a photo of their (huge!) booth. Also bought a wpi tool from them.

At the Chasing Rainbows booth, I bought three 2-oz. hanks of handpainted bombyx silk. And I helped the folks at Conjoined Creations break down their booth at the end of the show, and they “tipped” me with a hank of hand-painted soy silk. Pix of this stuff tomorrow, since it’s just too late tonight. Gotta crash soon.

Got to see all my fellow guild spinnies, too. Miss you guys!

So I travelled all day Monday, worked Tuesday until 7pm and then went out to dinner with my Mom, my brother and niece, and my cousin David, who’s been living here in NYC but is moving back to his native Alexandria, VA. Then I spent awhile on the phone with my sister Val, who’s having extended computer troubles and really needs the help.

Worked all day today. Then more with Val tonight — she caught me before I left the office, so I was there until pretty late. And just as I was about to leave, my brother sent me an email asking me to do something that I should have left until the morning, but I didn’t, like a dope, so I didn’t get out of there until about 10:20pm.

There. In case you were wondering why I haven’t kept up with this blog more regularly, that should give you a clue!

Oh, yeah: I did get a chance yesterday to order a pound of kid mohair. Now I need some dyes. I’m considering one of these kits from Pro Chem. Or maybe I’ll just get some Kook Aid, so I don’t have to stuff Mom’s place full of thrift store dyeing equipment (or spend the time shopping for it). Then a little sewing thread (maybe some silk? maybe something from Habu?), and I’m ready to try my hand at handspun mohair bouclé.