Everyone got to show off their handknits, that's Mum's chocolate coloured sock in the middle!
I carried my camera about but forgot to get a photo of us. Luckily there were other (better) photographers there who caught us!
I knitted my hat, it's a Side Slip Cloche that I mad a bit slouchier, because I like a bit of slouch, and my vest was made especially for the occasion, because I get too hot with jumpers under coats. Mum is wearing my Grace scarf and Em is wearing the hat I made for her when she was in the UK. A bit of a showcase of my knitting really!We hung out with Dawn who I had previously met at a Ravelry meet up in Wangaratta earlier in the year. We all won prizes too, I won a Ravelry bag, Mum and Em and Dawn all won fibre, and I get to spin Mum and Em's on...
My brand spanking new spinning wheel!I had intened to have a look at spinning wheels at the show so I could move on up from spinning on my trusty spindle. I knew that Mandie at Ewe Give Me The Knits had Majacraft wheels and I had heard wonderful things about them so we went to have a look at the wheels and I got to have a play under the instruction of Glynis (one of the company directors!) and fell madly in love with the wheels and brought one home!
The rest of my purchasing was fairly subdued, I was just so happy to have my wheel! I got some black wool top from Shiloh, bunny fluff from Ixchell, a WPI guage and some red and grey wool from the Bendigo Woollen Mill. The stuff with the sparkle at the back is the Batt that Mum won at Brekky!
It was a wonderful, exhausting day! We're already planning next year's expedition!
Jen
Sit and spin, Jen!!!
ReplyDeleteIt just sounds so wrong, but that's what you will be doing.
ReplyDeleteOh I have been, don't you worry about that!
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