A true fibre feast

As I mentioned last week we went to Fibre Feast SA. I've been to a few fibre festivals around the world, from the insanity that was Edinburg Yarn Festival to a local festival in a scout hall. This was somewhere in between. It was held in a fancy private school. There was a general market on the front lawn, and then an open sided gym and an inside gym full of yarn sellers. As well as some of my Victorian friends, there were lots of local sellers, and an heartening amount of yarn that was sources, spun and dyed locally.

So, what's in the bag?

My first purchase was very local, from the Yarn Trader yarn shop. It's Højtid Single from Circus Tonic Handmade. I bought it Blanko pattern by Lone Kjeldsen, a large poncho style jumper that will be so snuggly and delicious knit in the merino, yak and silk blend.

Then I found some beautiful grey yarn from Aveley FinnSheep. I'm obsessed with making an ordinary, slightly boxy grey cardigan. I did also buy the buttons for this project - so complex and pretty.

One of my main shopping missions for this market was some yarn for the Richmond Knitter's Sheep Show jumper. Every year we choose a pattern or theme and knit it up for Bendigo sheep show. This year we chose Wool & Honey by Andrea Mowry. I knew I wanted to knit it out of something woolly, like Jameson, and in a light pink. Well, I found the perfect yarn:

It's a Shetland yarn from AveleyFinn sheep, naturally dyed. Beautiful.

I also bought a skein of orange The Wonderful Wizard of Sock from Stranded in Oz, who is one of the first yarn people I bought from back when I was a baby knitter. Her sock base is amazing and it was good to see her.

Prior to all these lovely purchases the stash was 13592 metres. Now it's a healthy 18,269 meters and I've got yarn for three projects I am very much looking forward to knitting - and one single skein of incredibly pretty sock yarn.

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