Fall Fiber Festival Fun … and some exciting brag-moment
26th Annual Fall Fiber Festival – October 5 and 6, 2013
Champion cashmere goat kid (5 months old)
chat with fiber-loving folks …
Jane wearing Not-So- Plain-Jane shawl and one of her champion goats
and generally have a sensation time while eating Kira’s Crepes and cider donuts at Carpe Donuts … btw, Carpe sells Frodos – an amazing flavor blend with an ice cream sandwich made with one of the cider donuts … WOW! [A great finish to the apple, bacon, cheddar crepe I’d had for lunch … just sayin’]
I spent all day Sunday down there … helping in Jane’s Spring Gate Farm booth … and demonstrating/offering knitting help in the afternoon at the demo tent. It’s great to see folks who I only see at this festival (this is my 4th year going … so I’m building some great annual friendships.
One portion of the FFF that is really cool is the Skein/Garment Competition. Clotho’s Handspinners, a handspinning guild from Richmond, coordinates this competition, a competition that gathers entries from all over the state of Virginia and even beyond.
I entered three items in the hand-knit (with commercial yarn) division.
Kirsty’s Cap and Cuddly Booties
Colleen’s Cover — a lap blanket or sofa throw
Nollag Seal (a Christmas cape)
Guess what? I won a ribbon (and vendor-donated prize) for each!
2nd place ribbon in the accessories category for my Kirsty’s Cap and Cuddly Booties (please click the picture for a link to KSC Designs, the donator of the prize)
The prize was a removable journal cover from KSC Designs
1st place ribbon in the non-wearable category for my Colleen’s Cover
1st Place Ribbon – Handknit Non-wearable for Colleen’s Cover. Prize is a huge skein of handspun yarn in a lovely reddish-brown from Silverleaf Spinning (Louisa, VA)
and
1st Place and Best in Division for my cabled Nollag Seal (Christmas Shawl in Gaelic); please click on the picture to see what other gorgeous items Mad Maggie Farms has available.
1st Place AND Best in Division ribbons for Nollage Seal. Prize was a beautifully hand-felted wallhanging from Mad Maggie Farms
Cool, huh?
Impressive, Mary! Congratulations!
how exciting! I esp. love the red shawl! how lovely!!!
Thanks, Jenn … as I’m trying to go more towards full-time (could definitely use the income) the publicity and notoriety are great.
Hope all is well,
M
Thanks, Elizabeth. I love the shawl — it’s cozy warm and the hood is fun. I really enjoy cables …
Hugs,
mary G.