Bendigo 2024 - the full report

This year's Bendigo Sheep and Wool Show is over and done and it was a fabulous year. Kris, Katie and I stayed in a really cute cottage and had a marvelous time. we've been doing this for quite a quite now, and have refined all the things we like:

Thai dinner of the Thursday night,

Women of wool lunch on Friday

Friday night pizza at Suzane's - and my traditional terrible photo of it.

Saturday shopping and looking at sheep, followed by a group dinner at the pub.

This year we all knit variations of the Pressed flower pattern, and took photos on Friday

and Saturday, because different people were available on different days. This was such a fun project to knit, and to wear as a group. By the end of the weekend people were asking if I was a Richmond knitter, purely based on my clothing! As you can see it was cold, windy and occasionally rainy.

I visited Susannah, to show her the jumper I test knit for her:

Kerryn, from my trivia team came up for her first Bendigo, and it was a lot of fun showing her the ropes of the largest sheep show in the world!

In shopping, I was quite disciplined, and mainly bought undyed yarn (1.6kg on a cone) and fibre, which I'm also going to dye. I bought almost everything on my list, and only 20 grams (a mini) that was not, so that is pleasing. - ~~as it the fact that I'm still under 20 km of stash (~~Stashcount - 19,168 ). ETA - I was really tired when I ran the numbers, and the stash is actually 22,118.

In lifestyle I had a great time, bringing home chocolate and soap and all sorts of fun things.

As usual, I had a very fun, very social time. I'm now very tired, but very content.

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