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Well certainly no mystery if I made it to the Vendor area at the DFW FiberFest this weekend.
The fashion show on Friday was a different matter unfortunately. I was just about to leave when Mr. Pieknits calls to warn me there’s a severe thunderstorm and tornado warning. Just as I’m going to the computer to check as it had only been a little cloudy, the storm hits. Now, I always joke that being a Northerner, I’m not too intimidated by Texas “weather” but when the marble-golf ball sized hail started coming with the sudden torrential rain and I could hear the sirens… yeah ok, no contest.

The weather was sunny and lovely by Sunday however for my Reversible Cables class with Lily Chin. I really enjoyed this class, and Lily is certainly entertaining. While I’ve done lots of cables I’d never messed around with Reversibles before and can now think of some things I’d really like to try (and wish I’d known sooner). She also taught a handy short-hand method of charting/designing cables which should be helpful since I have a penchant for creating large celtic non-repeating cables. (My last one (not blogged) was about 45 sts wide, over 80 rows I think? Spanned over 2 pages of graph paper so yeah, would’ve been handy)
After the class I got to hit the vendor area and yeay, the fiber! I haven’t seen much at the local yarn stores so I was happy to get to feel around some and snag some shipping free. Here’s what I picked up in addition to the Claudia Hand-painted above.

Some exquisite bamboo fiber in steely blues, this stuff looks so cool! Also couldn’t resist some wool hand painted roving in great purples and my fav funky greens. I’ve also been wanting to try those stretchy circs and picked up one of those as well.