Sep. 27, 2009 - A Wool Gathering - September 19, 2009
The girls and I took a trip to Young's Dairy, for the annual A Wool Gathering which I've never been to and I was happy we went. It was neat to see all the different fibers, including yarn made from buffalo fur! While I tried to do crochet I've never mastered it and so I've never attempted knitting - but I enjoy the fibers and yarn, so many colors and things to do with the yarns. They had some hands on things - Bethanne made a cow puppet (sorry no pictures of that) and Hannah practiced the art of drop spindles. We also saw a variety of animals like alpacas, llamas, French and English Angoras and also different varities of sheep. It was a fun learning experience.
A dog rounding up ducks. The ducks were a beautiful black/blue color.
Llamas and a women spinning the fur.
English Angora rabbit. English Angoras does not have the fuzzy face whereas the French Angoras do.
Hannah using a drop spindle to make yarn.
Alpacas.
So that was our trip to the A Wool Gathering. The girls each got a scoop of ice cream and I allowed Hannah to pick up some wool as she was allowed to keep her drop spindle and we'll make some yarn with it eventually and maybe I'll decide to actually learn to crochet!
Comments
Sep. 28, 2009 - Neat!
Posted by LarabaK
Last time I was at Young's I saw a posting on this, and thought about going. But it has been an insane month and I forgot all about it. I am glad it was so neat -- maybe we can go next year. I'm not a knitter or a sewer but I still find the comparison of different animals fibers to be fascinating.
I especially liked the picture of the dog herding the birds :-).
Laraba
