I’m quite late posting about Rhinebeck. The internet abounds with images of what a beautiful weekend it was up in the Hudson Valley with the color just starting to turn and lots of promise for the weeks ahead. I love the one on Ravelry’s Homepage!
The drive was terrible! One hour, 30 minutes to the Kingston exit on the NYState Thruway, then another hour and a half to get across the Rhinecliff Bridge and crawl to the fairground! I’m not sure I can do this again next year….
Meanwhile, here are my treasures:
Alpaca/Wool/Mohair from Brooks Farm (Lancaster, TX) and buttons from Gita Maria
The Brooks Farm booth is always impossibly crowded, but I had an idea for a gift for a friend: a skein of luscious alpaca/wool/mohair with fund buttons from Gita Maria. The pattern is from Spin Off Magazine, Summer 2009.
And for me….
Rhinebeck Treasures
Eureka! I found buttons for my Einstein coat! …also from Gita Maria. She had baskets full of buttons, and they were all so pretty that I just dug through the lot until I found six that matched! I added to my Signature needles stash (usually one a year when I see them at a show so I can avoid shipping!). And I couldn’t resist the fun double pointed needles from knitpicks.
Handpainted 54s Corriedale Wool Top resting on a bed of Suri Alpaca/Silk
And although I am drowning in fiber, I cannot go to a wool festival without getting a little something…. look at that beautiful braid of handpainted Corriedale from “into the whirled”….sigh….resting on top of a cloud soft cushion of Suri Alpaca/Silk from Biltmore Wool Barn in Brewster, Mass…. bigger sigh….
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