Rhinebeck 2011 Shopping!

This year I only went on Saturday.  Some day I’d love to stay in a house with friends, but I really don’t know anyone else around me who’d be interested in going…but that just sounds like so much more fun!

This year was my favorite, so far!

I got in early and it was not very crowded..

This was waiting in line for the gates to open and I noticed this skirt on two different people…I later saw it on a few other people, including Gingy, whom I met last year.  I found out it is the Lanesplitter.  It’s a free pattern and I think I might have to try it…I was truly taken with it….

I wandered around for a bit, heading into the A, B, C, D buildings first….That’s where I met Catherine Friend.  I commenced the shopping…

 Into The Whirled I bought one skein of 3 ply superwash called Trajectory.  I wonder if they are going to be at Stitches, because I wish I had bought the Vampires of Venice yarn.  I keep thinking about it…

 Bitsy Knits Fiber Arts.  I bought the pink I was looking for and a sale yarn, Bitsy’s Sock in Love of Art.

Moving on to The Fold, where I got some Socks that Rock.  A Rare Gems and Plankton Ooze..

I hadn’t even gotten to the barns yet! I noted two more booths that I wanted to revisit…then headed to the barns…

At this booth, I bought some sock yarn…

Each skein is spun exactly the same, so the two socks will come out the same…

This was Maple Creek Farm, where I bought one of those end skeins on the left….my black with shots of color…

Then I headed back to the first buildings and bought some Fiber Optic

And some really cool black and orange yarn from Blue Ridge Yarns.  This is a picture of her red, white and blue yarn…very cool!

Then I headed to Miss Babs, where I got some Yummy and Windsor yarns…one called “Witch’s Brew.”

All in all, pretty refrained for me….12 skeins in all (counting the 2 sock as 1)

Yarn Along and WIP Wednesday

or my version of Rhinebeck Reads!

On Saturday I met Catherine Friend at Rhinebeck.

She wrote Sheepish.  I’ve been wanting to read her book, Hit by a Farm, but have not ordered it from Amazon yet.  I was very excited to meet her.  I read her blog Farm Tales.  The book is very funny and I am about 1/2 way through it.

Two years ago I met Anne Barclay Priest at Rhinebeck and bought her book, Trafficking in Sheep, which I have not finished.  But reading Sheepish makes me want to pick it back up.  She was not there this year, (but was last year), so I just went looking for her and she passed away last November.  So last year was her last Rhinebeck.  I’m privileged to have met her and have a signed copy of her book.  If you’d like to read about this wonderful woman, here is an editorial about her.

The Yarn Harlot was there too.  I could have been 12th in line, but decided I wanted to go shopping more than wait for her…it was almost a two hour wait.  They were giving out numbers, but I figured I’d probably not come back.

The project is a quick hat I am crocheting for Stitches.  I will be working in a booth on Friday.  She has several knitted items, but not too many crocheted.  I am making it from Mirasol Miski in Bluebell.  It is a free pattern from here.

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Rhinebeck Sneak Peek

I need to do a longer post, but yesterday was too exhausted when I got home….today?  I sat on my bum and finished 3, yes 3 projects for Nerd Wars….I was Speedy Gonzalez today!  I also watched some Doctor Who (10) The last season, because I love him and Donna together…and the season premier of The Walking Dead….now it is bedtime…

Yarn P0rn…

Rhinebeck Plans!

Well those of you that have read more for awhile know that I love to purchase yarn…I just purchase it…I rarely use it…but here is my plan for Rhinebeck…

Yarn:

1.  Black with shots of color, muted, not separate colors..kinda hard to describe

2. Pink yarn for a gift

3. Dirty Water Dye Works…I bought the Dipped Infinity Scarf kit and I want more of one of the colors…

4. Stop at RedMaple Sportswear for Bingo fun and to buy the Hubs socks…(he’s not getting kettle corn, he was by Webs today and teased me with a photo, but didn’t go in and buy anything!  Bad Hubs!)

5.  Try to catch as many Bingo squares as possible….

6. Buy gifts for my blogiversary in a few weeks!

7.  Yes my 4th blogiversary is coming up and it’ll be giveaway time!!!!

8.  Catch sight of the Yarn Harlot…I doubt I’ll wait in line, but I’d like to catch sight of this knitting dynamo….

9.  Get Catherine Friend’s new book….I’m kinda hoping she has Hit By A  Farm too, as I want to read that!

10.  Maybe catch a glimpse of baby Ravelry, as I am sure she will be surrounded!

11.  Take lots of pictures and have tons of fun!

Maybe I’ll see you there…if you are stalking for Bingo purposes…I think I will be wearing a red vest, hair in braid, jeans, not sure about a hat, thin granny square scarf…

2 More Sleeps Until

RHINEBECK!!!!!!!!!!!

I first went to Rhinebeck four years ago….I have grown so much since then!

I am knitting…….I was only crocheting before…..

I am not buying yarn as wily nily……

I actually know some designers by name and recognize many of the yarn designers….

In fact tomorrow when I get home I’ll be going through the vendor’s list and making my choices of booths to visit…..I’ll get to them all, or browse them all, but which ones do I want to make a point to stop at…

I’ve got a couple of things on my shopping list….I’ve been attracted lately to the black yarns with dashes of color…My best bet will probably be Sanguine Gryphon, but if it’s craziness like last year, I’ll move on…..I’ll see if I can find it somewhere else….I’m also looking for a luscious pink yarn for a Christmas gift….

I have to buy socks for the Hubs at the Red Maple booth…he said they are the best socks he has ever worn…..

I’m thinking about sock blockers, what kinds are best…the wooden (so pretty) or the open wire ones?  Or would those be best bought NEXT weekend at Stitches East?

I’m going to play Rhinebeck Bingo again…second year…I’ll have my sheepy stickers again……

Now if only I could figure out what to wear…..It might be too warm for sweaters (and I have no handmade ones), but I’m always cold….

Decisions, decisions……it’s time for bed and then it is only 1 MORE sleep until RHINEBECK!!!!!!!!!

WIP Wednesday and Yarn Over

 

It’s been awhile since I have done one of these…and I decided to change things up a bit….

I pulled out several books that I have started, but for one reason or another, never finished….these will be the books I’m going to read in the next couple of weeks….although I am also going to read I Am A Genius of Unspeakable Evil and I Want to be Your Class President.  by Josh Lieb.  One of my students took it out of the library and I read a bit of it and it’s HILARIOUS!

I also finished The Hunger Games last week…..very good book.  The sequels are on order for the school library, so I’m waiting for them to come in…it really was very good!

So what’s in my tried to read and stopped for one reason or another pile (and this is not a definitive pile, I didn’t pull them all out…also sitting on the side of my bed with a bookmark in it is The Lampshade)

The Book Thief – I thought I finished this, but I can’t remember an ending, so gonna go back and peruse it.

A Dance of Dragons – taking my time, as there is no rush to finish this, as it’ll be YEARS before the next is released…

March – Interesting, but just put it down and never picked it back up…I love Louisa May Alcott

I Capture the Castle – I bought this in Corpus Christi when my dad was sick…and haven’t picked it back up since I got home…

Wicked – love the play, could not get through the book….

The Lovely Bones – at one time I had two hardcover copies of this, I may still have the other one here….don’t know I put this down…my kind of book…

The Children of Men – like the movie, book is different

Sugarcane Academy – a book about a school after Katrina, it’s almost done

The Girl in the Mennonite Dress – barely started it…

and

The Dome - LOVE Stephen King….Hubs finished it first, then gave to sister to read and I keep forgetting about it….

and my tower of books may fall sometime during the night, as I pulled books out of it…yeah that one in the far left corner…

Now onto the yarny things….Rav links…

From the left:

A Breath of Fresh Air Scarf

Dipped Infinity Scarf –almost done

Chain Lace Big Fat Scarf – not gonna be done for Rhinebeck

A pair of fingerless gloves I started…

Also not a definitive list, but the projects I’ve worked on the most in the last couple of weeks…

Check This Out!

Larry Hunt is a performer….

What is he?

Can you guess what animal he is?

He did several characters and the students were enthralled!

Old Man

Puppy Dog

Quincey

After he came off the stage, he moved into the audience and over the seats…I took video, but it is very dark….It was amazing!

The students are participating in an art workshop with students from a local university.  This is the second week they have been at the school….the students also started making their own masks today…

They will be painted next week….and then used in a performance….