Wonderful Woolfest Weekend (the goodies)

OK guys I've now managed to sort through all the bags and take photos of all the goodies which I bought.......So be prepared for yarn related overload!!!!!!


What is this strange contraption, I hear you ask, well it is a saving sock stand. I thought this was a great idea for using up that last bits of sock yarn. Basically you knit a sock, push the top of the sock through a hole at the top of the stand, place in the wooden bung with a slot cut in it and voila, you have a money bank, to save for your next visit to Woolfest!!!!!! I thought they would make great pressies for kids so bought 5 of them. (The sock is for display purposes only and one I knitted earlier!)



I have been looking for this book for ages, but normally you can't buy it in the UK, but Doreen at Scottish Fibres had a copy, so I VERY quickly snapped it up!
I just love murder mystery books so this was a MUST and Spinning Fishwife wants to read it after me.




I also bought 3mm and 3.5mm Rosewood 60cm circular needles and size 2.5mm and 3.5mm ebony dpns from Doreen at Scottish Fibres.

The wooden shawl pin was bought at Twist Fibre Craft Studio.

At the top of this picture you can see that I also bought a pair of huge 22mm (approx) wooden needles so that I can knit "holes"!!!!!! I can't remember which vendor they came from.

I spent a lot of my time visiting and re-visiting the Jamieson and Smith Shetland stall and must admit I would have liked to have bought more but the purse wouldn't allow it. Here you see 2 kits which I bought,

1)The Shetland "Old shell" shawl pattern and 5 balls of blue variegated 1ply (YES 1ply)cobweb yarn.

2)The Shetland Cobweb wrap pattern and 4 x 25mg balls of black 1 ply cobweb yarn.
I must be mad, but I'm really looking forward to making them sometime in the near future.

I bought 2 other patterns from Jamieson and Smith, they were the Shetland 1 ply "Sheelagh" shawl and the Shetland cobweb "Gibbie" shawl.
From the Knitting and Crocheting Guild I bought the pattern for Fiber Trends "Pacific Northwest" shawl.
Here you see the free pattern I got when I bought some sock yarn. It is for short row heel socks.



Ok so I bought 22mm needles, well from the ridiculous to the sublime.......... These are 0.9mm metal dpns bought from Mo Bear. What I'm going to use them for I have no idea.....but I just had to have them....You know how it is?


This little lot came from Twist Fibre Craft Studio........ they are 100g gold lopi roving, 100g green lopi roving and 100g rust lopi roving to make a felted bag with. I have never felted so I'm looking forward to that project too. I also bought a nice bone button to fasten the bag with (that's it sitting on the gold roving!).


LAST PICTURE COMING UP............


I bought 3 sheepy things (only 2 in the picture).....What are they? (tell ya later!)

I also bought some sock yarn....Do you honestly think I could have resisted the temptation to do that? Of course not, however I was very restrained, I only bought 3 balls!
2 balls of wine coloured Regia silk to knit some nice lacey socks for moi and 1 ball of blue Fortissima (project yet to be determined) They were bought from the same stall as the money sock stands.

I also bought some nice blue "fuzzy" yarn to knit "holes" with, using the huge needles. This yarn was bought from the same stall as the needles.

Nearly forgot.....A wooly sheep keyring (no pic as its on my knitting bag)which I bought from Doreen at Scottish Fibres.

I also have an other photo, but it is full of "secret" goodies, so not to be posted yet....Just Incase!

OK so what are the sheepy things that I also bought from Twist Fibre Craft Studio?

Well, have you guessed yet?

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tape measures........yey sheepy tape measures.

I think that's it, no more goodies....Money all spent. Need to knit a sock and start saving for next year!