Everything is FAIR game

As the summer winds down, knitters will turn their thoughts to attending the Fall Sheep and Wool festivals. Yes,  from California to Vermont and everywhere in between, we fanatics will flock to familiar fairgrounds to get our fill of fiber. I went to the New York Sheep and Wool Festival last year and came home with a carload of stuff (including a border collie - but that's another story) There's nothing like that shot of adrenaline that hits you as you leave your house at 6 a.m. Your heart begins to pound as you aproach the parking area. And then, like crazed hunters, its off to capture The Big Game. Moving from one vendor's stall to the next, secretly hoping that we will come upon some one-of-a-kind handspun long before anyone else. And when all is said and done, we make it home: tired, broke and sporting a new loom,  a dog. or something else that will need to be returned to its breeder. But that's another story.

Lion Brand Yarn has posted a complete list of festivals.[Click Here]

Here are a few:

8/18 - 8/20    Santa Monica, CA         Fabulous Fiber Fest 2006  website

8/19 - 8/20    Allegan, MI                   Michigan Fiber Festival website                  

9/2 - 9/3        Salt Lake City, UT        Great Basin Fiber Arts Fair website

9/2 - 9/4        Bethel, MO                   Sheep & Fiber Arts Festival website

9/3 - 9/6        Soldier Hollow, UT        Back of the Wasatch Fiber Festival website

9/8 - 9/10      Jefferson, Wi                WisconsinSheep and Wool Festival website

9/9 - 9/10      Essex Junction, VT       Vermont Sheep and Wool Festival website

9/9 - 9/10      Harford, PA                  Endless Mountains Fiber Festival website

9/15 - 9/17    Boonville, CA                California Wool and Fiber Festival website

9/16 - 9/17    Hemlock, NY                Finger Lakes Fiber Arts Festival website

9/16 - 9/17    Ringoes, NJ                  Garden State Sheep and Fiber Festival website

9/23 - 9/24    Canby, OR                    Oregon Flock & Fiber Festival website

9/30 - 10/1    West Branch, MI           Northern Michigan Lamb & Wool Festival website

9/30              East Aurora, NY            Knox Farm Fiber festival website

10/7 - 10/8    Taos, NM                     Wool Festival at Taoswebsite

10/21             Rhinebeck, NY              New York State Sheep & Wool Festival  website

10/21             Corydon, IN                  Fall Fiber Festival and Market website

11/2 - 11/5    Baltimore MD               Stitches East website

Comments

[Jennifer]

You came home with a dog? I must hear this story. :-)

[Scribbles & Bits]

Are you going to set up a booth at some of these? Randomly, I was thinking about your kit last night and wondering if you've considered making a crochet version. It looks like all that would need to be switched out would be the labels for something that says crochet and the card would need to be different. I'm not a hooker (yet, at any rate), but I was thinking about the convention you went to that you said was mostly crocheters. Anyway, just random thoughts.

[Jenn Ty]

I will be attending the OFF Festival (oregon fleece and fiber) in september! Will send you photos of our adventure!