I went to Maryland with a plan. A grand plan. First I was gonna eat and eat a LOT, and meet friends-Sheila, Caroline, Laura, Sam, Van, Marcia, and the Absolutely Adorable Angela[trip A or AAA] in addition to my hostess with the mostest Liz. If Laura, Van, Marcia, or trip A have blogs I don’t know of it and will be mightily peeved to find out they set one up without letting me know. I also was gonna purchase stuff: fiber from the Barefoot Spinner, and some 2 and 2.5mm Addi Naturas[if found], and some combs for fiber prep. Maybe a book or two since our local book purveyors are less than fiber oriented. Unless quilting is your bag then your hooked up. NO YARN. I actually did good. First the nonexistant yarn:
I only purchased the lovely ‘laceweight’ handpainted mohair to left of picture. Gorgeous stuff. The koigu was a gift from the trip A, and the cone of white alpaca was from Liz. Oh and Liz also gave me some sock yarn to spur on my slackerly sock knitting tendancies: All in all I think I kept the no yarn part of grand plan firmly in check. The proliferation of handpainted mohairs, in particular mini-loop mohairs, was astounding. Every time I turned around some of these lovelies beckoned but I checked the impulse to charge, charge, and charge some more. I vote mohair tres au courant or maybe avant garde soon to be au courant. In this household if nowhere else.

Liz convinced me that combs were not a good idea in a household filled with small children. She recommended hackles but I have no clue and decided to muddle over my choices in the comfort of my own home. I did see an interesting circular comb at ummmm argh the place Liz told me to buy combs from. She will probably leave a comment as to who they were if you are overly curious. Anyway it swirled around like a ball winder with all those teeth sticking up. Definitely a child safe item not I also didn’t look for books til I was tuckered out and nearly broke since books can be ordered. But the fiber, oh yah, I got fiber:

This picture is actually a teaser since none of it was available at MS&W. The orange is a hand dyed and carded by Morgan creation. Since Liz was done with it she let me take what was left home. Let’s hope Morgan sets up a booth at the festival sooner or later. And when she is enundated with orders she remembers to have some set aside at reasonable prices for moi. The rest is kid mohair locks, a silk bell[green in center], and more kid mohair locks with coordinating silk top handpainted by a vendor from many, many years ago. Again gifties from Liz. She obviously does not know the guest is supposed to supply hostess gifts. I went empty handed so I know there is some misunderstanding on the term. As if we did not have enough new fiber I actually purchased some.

Last but not least I purchased some dresses for my daughters from a vendor opposite Susan’s Fiber Shop. I do not know the name and didn’t pick up a card which is unfortunate. I accidentally got 2 size 6’s instead of a size 6 and 8 so Zoe is left out and Ashley scored big. If you received the mailing of Vendors and locations please feel free to contact me with the name of shop and contact information if at all humanly possible. It was the only clothing shop in barn #3[I think.] Sadly I did not find 2 mm Addi Naturas so now need to send out a general distress call on the WWW–if you spot some I want to know where.