A few weeks ago (okay, the second week of April) my Mom and I met up to go to the Yellow Rose Fiber Producers Fiesta in Seguin, TX. We had an absolutely wonderful time, except for when my gluten-free mom and my vegan self were walking around tiny, economically distressed downtown Seguin looking for lunch on Saturday and they didn't have ANY FOOD. None at all.
We took a few classes: a short morning intro to needle felting and a longer afternoon introduction to rigid heddle weaving.
You can see the finished product of my needle-felted chicken at the top of this post. I think it's absolutely adorable, and my plan is to crop it, frame it, and hang it in my new kitchen when we move (next week!). We took a copy of a page from a coloring book and traced it onto the clear water-soluble "fabric" you can see in this picture:
Then we took a bit of fluffy fiber and poke-poke-poke it into the fabric, with a foam block behind it.
The second class was rigid heddle weaving. I made a small table-runner-ish item:
Here's the almost-finished product. I still need to tie off the ends for fringe.
Here's a close-up so you can see the lovely self-striping color of this bamboo yarn:
And finally, I only made one purchase at the show, but it was a good one. It seemed like most of the exhibitors were alpaca farmers from Texas. So of course I had to buy some alpaca fiber. I got this custom-made batt from a booth where they had a bunch of fiber in different solid colors on display. I got to choose my colors (which were purple, white, and a bit of blue-green silk) and the man ran it through his carding machine to blend it all together in a beautiful way. Here it is:
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