Drove to St Norbert with Lisa and two Woofers, farm volunteers, from France. The festival was a well organized event with great displays and vendors. We didn't take part in the classes but I am sure people enjoyed them as well.
Outside the hall were two different groups demonstrating historic fibre preparation into fabric. Wonderful new ideas and techniques I had never seen or heard of before. Too bad it was so rainy and wet.
Inside there were dosens of vendors with raw and prepared fibres as well as produced items to sell. I bought a few different fibre chunks - dyed Rambouillet batt in cotton candy colours, raw grey alpaca fleece, braid of hand dyed Tussah Silk, recycled sari silk threads, and a variety bag of dyed locks.
I also bought some prepared items - a hand crocheted wool cowl with wooden buttons, a hand woven scarf, and a woven rug of recycled poly/cotton fabric.
What a wonderful day for a fibre lover!! Now Lisa and I will have to officially begin recruiting members for our fibre guild. Prairie Wind FLEECErs. (Fibre Lovers Enthusiastically Enjoy Creating Essentials).
Outside the hall were two different groups demonstrating historic fibre preparation into fabric. Wonderful new ideas and techniques I had never seen or heard of before. Too bad it was so rainy and wet.
Inside there were dosens of vendors with raw and prepared fibres as well as produced items to sell. I bought a few different fibre chunks - dyed Rambouillet batt in cotton candy colours, raw grey alpaca fleece, braid of hand dyed Tussah Silk, recycled sari silk threads, and a variety bag of dyed locks.
I also bought some prepared items - a hand crocheted wool cowl with wooden buttons, a hand woven scarf, and a woven rug of recycled poly/cotton fabric.
What a wonderful day for a fibre lover!! Now Lisa and I will have to officially begin recruiting members for our fibre guild. Prairie Wind FLEECErs. (Fibre Lovers Enthusiastically Enjoy Creating Essentials).
Preparing a fishing net as it has been done for thousands of years!!
Spinning and weaving in traditional apparel.
Indoor spinners, get together to share time and talents.
The hands and wheel in the foreground are spinning a cat and dog hair mix.
Vendors at the festival.
Fibre candy!! Yummy!!
Felted items.
Woven items.
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