It has been and will continue to be a busy weekend for me. Yesterday I participated in the Spin In at The Recycled Lamb Shop. There were lots of Ladybug spinning wheels in use and a few of us on drop spindles. I brought the cotton to spin on the drop spindle plus some blue merino/silk roving to spin on the wheel. Met lots of new spinners and learned cool things about birds and spinning dog hair.
Today was aiding in setting the booth up at the Colorado Renaissance Festival which is called Raven End. We cleared out what was the storage room to aid it in becoming a demonstration room. I learned to use a sander today and even did some minor painting. The owner would like me to do some demos during the festival which will be really cool. I have to be in medieval garb which we will be working on before the big day. Made some connections with a fellow knitter who is a writer and her hubby is a photographer. When I am profitable enough to outsource I at least have contacts. It was a good morning/afternoon of physical labor.
As the Estonian lace scarf is finished I have begun another hat. It will be in the lilac Aran wool yarn and I am tweaking the woven texture pattern to work in the round for the hat. Here I go designing again! So far it is turning out well but to get the pattern to show well the stitches are tight thereby making the hat smaller than originally attended. Oh well, if I get the pattern to turn out well I can always make others and increase the width by casting on more stitches. It is a work in progress and I am toying with adding garter or stockinette stitches into the design to break up the woven pattern a bit.
Tomorrow we are off to the Capital Hill People's Fair being held in downtown Denver. Of course next week is the highly anticipated Estes Park Wool Festival of course we are all still waiting to hear if the camelid animals will be allowed in this year's event due to the EHV-1 virus but according to the site all other animals will be there (sheep, goats, yaks, etc.). I am still on a mission to obtain hand carders. I tried to buy some from Woodland Woolworks but they sold out then went to The Recycled Lamb shop and they sold all of theirs. So third times the charm I am sure they will be many vendors selling these and I am in a serious mood to learn to rolags!
June is shaping up to be a busy and productive month and I hope the rest of the summer is just as busy! Off to knit more rows on the hat.
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