Apres SAFF

I'm back from SAFF. Didn't buy nearly as much as usual, but met up with a friend who I haven't seen in a year. I left at about 8 this morning, got there about 9:45, and started walking. LOL I left there a little after 12, stopped on the way back for lunch (found a big Chinese buffet - Yummo), and got back around 3. My feet are KILLING me.

I got a pound of light gray Bluefaced-Leicester/silk blend combed top, 13 oz. of Merino top in a darkish fushia, 40 in. size 8 Addi Turbo circular needles (I'm going to try another Shetland style shawl with the BFL/silk I'm currently spinning and wanted a slightly smaller needle to do it.), 3 bars of soap (lilac, kitchen soap to get rid of garlic and onion smell, and one with more moisturizers for apres-gardening), and 3 pairs of alpaca socks (irregulars, so only $9/pair - 2 for DH and 1 for me).

And the friend is a member of the Limestone Creek Fiber Guild that I go to monthly. We're both "charter members," but Debbie doesn't usually attend during llama show season (now) and I wasn't able to attend during the summer market seasons until this year, when we switched to a Friday market, so we only saw each other a few times a year. Well, for one reason or another, Debbie hasn't been able to come to the meetings since last summer. I knew Mary Lou (Guild mother) would have some of her girls at the llama show, so I took a walk by the stalls on the way to the show ring, where I saw Debbie's farm sign too. I got to the show ring just in time to see Debbie getting ribbons for her girls' fleeces! She was so excited! So I tagged along with Mary Lou and Debbie while they were walking their llamas back to the stalls, and talked a little about what was going on. Debbie's a hugger, so I got 6 or 7 hugs over the course of the 30 minutes I hung out with them. She said she was getting proficient on the triangle loom, but was still tense when spinning. I told her to remember to breathe. LOL

Next show, Charlotte, June of 2012.