As Las has alluded to, yes there was a lot of yarn buying. But as anyone knows who has ever gone to a fiber fair, Black Sheep was and is more than just yarn.
Black Sheep is about:
Classes. I had a great class with the knitting technique junkie J.C. Briar. Where I finally sucked up my courage and knitted my first toe-up sock. A baby toe-up sock, but a toe-up sock nonetheless. It’s going to take me a bit to get use to how you do toe-up structure. I can do cuff-down sock structure in my sleep.
The Fleece Sale: I never realized people stand in line for hours so they can have a shooting chance of buying the champion fleece for them to spin. I was killing time Saturday afternoon while Las was in class when they announced the beginning of the Fleece Sale. When I got there, over a hundred people were standing in line. A very nice lady came out the doors to explain the rules. No fighting over fleeces. Anybody fighting over fleeces would not be eligble to buy that fleece.
These people may look like they are standing around but actually there's a pretty heated discussion over a fleece here.
The contests for knitting, spinning, and weaving.
The Best of Show.
This amazing shawl was spun, designed and knitted out of cashmere silk by Paula Shull. Too bad Las and I can’t enter as a team; her spinning, my knitting. We might have a chance in a hundred years.
Anyway, Las all ready showed pictures of the amazing animals and some of the demos. They are what Black Sheep is really all about.
Okay, you happy? Here’s all the yarn I bought. Actually that’s a lie as I bought some on the way home but that doesn’t count.
Wow! That’s quite a haul! Can’t wait to see what you knit.