I just spent the weekend at the Maryland Sheep & Wool festival. Cooperative Press had a booth, and I was there all weekend with the preview copy of Mystic Shawls – my very very very new book.
In fact, it is so new that it didn’t even make it there. But we brought a gorgeous preview copy, and took orders. For those of you who didn’t make it to MDSW, the book is available to order here. The book contains the 14 Mystic patterns published to date (Mystic Waters, Mystic Light, Mystic Star, Mystic Roses, and Mystic Earth, to name a few).
The booth was quite busy over the weekend. Shannon Okey, Andi Smith, Elizabeth Hope and I worked hard all weekend. We also had the pleasure of spending the weekend with Sally & Kitty of knitCompanion, as well as a number of visitors, like Heather Ordover who stopped by on Saturday, and of course Sam & Sarah of Cephalopod Yarns.
And of course no fiber festival would be complete without some yarn. One of my favourites was the gradient kit from Fiber Optic Yarns. I came home with two sets, for a total of 1800 yds of radiant goodness in damson-gold gradient. I’ve been so excited about this yarn that I’ve already cast on. Brace yourselves.
I also had the pleasure of meeting Jo & Carl of Ashton Studio Arts. They have some really lovely yarn, and I brought home several skeins of different bases and colours. I look forward to working with these yarns soon.
Stephanie of LunabudKnits had some lusciously soft and squishy yarn too. Can you tell I was in a “blue” frame of mind? I was also drawn to the name, I have to admit. It was well matched with another colourway called Tardis.
Finally, my favourite non-yarny find of the weekend was this amazing project bag made by Andi Smith of KnitBrit. I moved into it immediately, and I LOVE it.
In addition to all of the above, I also had the chance to visit with Gryphon at the Verdant Gryphon booth, and chat for a while. And of course many, many others. So much to knit, so little time. I had a great time, and look forward to next year’s festival.
