craftgrrl | Fiber Fest International

so i went to fiber fest international today.
It was a lot smaller then 2 years ago when it was at the tradex in town. There were a LOT less animals. Two years ago they had all sorts of demos on sheering *sp?* and about the animals, and they had lots of demos on diffrent things. Last time i was there i learned about fulling a woven projcet and they had a few of us come up and help (i went up) and it was really cool, and they taught us a celtic song. There was also no fashon show, and all around i felt quite disapointed.

my husband took me as im in my third trimester and for the fact that im having twins i need to be watched incase something happens (i almost passed out yesterday, but was NOT going to miss fiber fest again!) and he was a GREAT husband, he went around all the stalls with me, (three times he just chimed in!) and i got him to feel the diffrent fibers, and showed him the diffrence between diffrent types of wool. He seamed quite suprised that some of the yarn that looked so pritty could feel so yucky..... (touching the rough wool would give him a feeling of pain in his teeth, like chewing on cotton)..... so i got him to touch all the pritty stuff and went around looking for the best prices.
A few time he would notice that i was looking at the same thing, and comment that it was much cheeper over there (the other side of the fiber fest)...... I think he understood why i was looking at each stall 3 or 4 times, to comparison shop and to find the best prices.

SO behind the cut is pictures of what i bought!..... Enjoy! LARGE pictures

Pink and Purple 100% cotton yarn.
from Homespun Heaven.

100% tencel.
from same place as above.
Going to use it to ply with some of my fiber.

Suri Alpaca
$12
100g from Twisted Sisters

Snow firestar
100% nylon
Price 2.99
Weight 1oz
From mudriver angoras

Red firestar
100% nylon
1.1oz
price $3.19

not a great photo of it, but its BRIGHT pink!
Magenta 100% merino wool
Weight 4oz
Price $7.99
again from Mudriver angoras ..... the lady was SUPER friendly, showed me how her eletric carder worked, gave my hubby a run down on it, and was very informative..

I also got a deep maroon (my father says wine coloured) that is the same size as the pink one... for some reason i dident take a picutre of it...