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Sheepy

I am so sleepy! A fun day was had at the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival (OFFF)…. because I need any more yarn or fiber like hole in my head…

So it was a fun field trip with some of the knitting girls, yay! It was only about a 30 minute drive from my house, too! We got going early, but it was still crazy busy!

I got to watch a duck (I think) herding demo.
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And I bought some stuff..Like I said, I need it….

(Oh, I apologize for the horrible photos. Camera phone and night time don’t do well, but I did my best)

So this is some rambouillet I got (I think it was around 8 oz or so total), a really nice close to natural white color
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I also got from the same seller this black merino/white silk noilish blend for a steal (Cough*a dollar an ounce*Cough)!
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8 oz of nylon that I am going to use to blend some batts to spin for socks!
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A felting needle to play with some needle felting
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Silk noil and wool balls to add to some fun batts for spinning!
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Some beautiful fingering weight (I wish the colors were more accurate because they are intensely bright and happy) Superwash/nylon blend that I got from Knitted Wit and I am thinking about a Fair Isle sweater with black as the main color?!?!?
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I got a steal on this Lantern Moon basket! It is a bright turquoise color and so adorable in its shaping!
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Oh, and for a long thought of project for Joel, a Fedora hat form to I can make him one for his huge noggin!
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It was grand!

Oh, and as I was emptying the memory card, I found photos from the state fair when we visited the sheep. Enjoy! Thanks for reading through to the end of this bad blog post!
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(This was a tiny girl washing her tiny sheep in the ’sheep shower’ area in the sheep barn, so cute!)