Rhinebeck Recap- day one!

Here Jessie is all ready to go:

The money is out! Ok- it’s my money, but what a cute wallet! We are ready to buy yarn!

And we saw sheep- extremely cute sheep that would make very nice sweaters:

And then we took pictures of ourselves:

We are having so much fun!!

And have you seen Jessie’s amazing sweater?! It’s so gorgeous-

I saw this really cute bag:

We saw an angora bunny demonstration:

And in case you were wondering what else you could get in Rhinebeck:

I had so much fun! I can’t believe these were the only pictures I took! I mean- I guess I was too busy buying yarn and roving!! Sooo- here’s my Saturday loot again:

So- clockwise starting from the top left:

Peruvian Alpaca Sport Weight Yarn Andean Trail
612 yards for socks!
from ‘A Touch of Twist”

100 Yards of Evening Sky, a thick and thin hand dyed 100% wool hand dyed yarn. Perfect for Urchin!

Lopi Yarn for Ben’s Sweater! Happy Birthday Ben. Actually it was Ben’s Birthday on Saturday, so I bought him his birthday present!!

Yellow wool for a sweater for me! Not to be started until after Christmas and after Ben’s sweater.

My first Spinning project. Merino purple

Cotton & Eco Spun
Organic Cotton and recycled Soda Bottles
Pink and White

My first Spinning project. Merino purple

Funky yellow merino roving

Alpaca Lite, a fine finger weight yarn
200 yards in Camel
from “A Touch of Twist”

Alpaca Lite, a fine finger weight yarn
200 yards in Camel
from “A Touch of Twist”

Alpaca Lite, a fine finger weight yarn. 200 yards in Blue Violet
From “A Touch of Twist”

I also bought felting needles and a drop spindle- not pictured. Jessie taught me how to spin on Saturday- it was really cool! I can’t wait to do it some more!

It was so much fun and the leaves were so pretty all the way up from Boston! I had such a great time meeting all the bloggers and playing blogger bingo!!! We got bingo, but sadly we didn’t find all of the people on our card. I will do Sunday tomorrow. Now it’s time for the game!! GO SOX!

A Good Yarn

SO last Thursday I went to the super cool yarn shop in Brookline Village, A Good Yarn.  It was super nice, they let me browse to my heart’s content, and I bought a little present for Jessie!  (And a little present for myself). 

 

The two in front are roving.  I can’t remember the color they were called, but they’re sooo pretty!  The on to the left is Noro Kureyon (I can’t remember what color it is), and the one in the back is Malabrigo.  Soooo pretty! 

The shop overall was a bit overwhelming, which I of course Loved!  They don’t carry that many different colors of the Blue Sky Alpaca Organic Cotton which is a fault, I grant you, but the women were super nice. 

THEN- on the T ride home I was knitting, and this woman was standing across from me, and she started telling me all about the yarn shop I was just in and how much she likes it and how she had never knit before, but she took the beginning knitting class there and feel in love.  It was a really nice story, and I was sad when I had to get off. 

I got myself a skein of noro which I’m thinking about turning into Foliage.  We’ll see if I ever finish the Foliage I am working on now. 

 

OOOH! And in other news- Jessie and I are a square together in Rhinebeck Bloggers Bingo!!!  SO EXCITING! 

AND I’m working on my Rhinebeck scarf.  I’ll post more about it after lunch!