Photo borrowed from John Wise's great collection.
Yep, that's me fully embracing the dorktastic. I am so behind on this post! Yarn School was awesome. Re-adjusting back to regular life was a bit of a trial, seriously. 'What do you mean deadlines; can't we just play all day?'

Thursday we got in and received our fantastic goodie bags and then dined and drank ourselves silly on truly amazing food (This was all weekend actually). Friday was dye day and I'd say we did good job ransacking the dye room. (Really, check out all the pics in the Yarn School Flickr Pool) This was the funnest way you could dye- all the colors premixed, all supplies you could need set up and microwaves and crockpots galore. I kept running back up to the lab all afternoon in between different fiber prep classes working through still only about 1/2 of the fiber I had to dye.

Saturday was spinning day with big spinning circles set up in the old gym. This was so cool for me as I had literally never seen a wheel in person until mine arrived on my door step. This was the ultimate opportunity to check out such a wide variety and see each person's techniques. I'm happy to say I'm still really sold on my Lendrum though. The photos honestly don't do the place justice- after awhile it looked like a flock of technicolored sheep exploded in there. Between all the carding and spinning going on, bits of fluff just skidded here and there around the floor in the breeze. It was great ambiance. By Sunday several people were carding up some awesome batts of the random stuff to make "floor yarn". And speaking of the people, everyone I met was so great, such an amazing group. Including this very cool lady of Tempted Yarns- Hi Stacey! *waves* She has the coolest colors- go check out her sock yarns! I'm looking forward to designing something with them soon.

These are some of the things I managed to produce while there.

What did I learn in Yarn School? That drum carders are fun! It's a little rumply from being packed but I'm fondly referring to this batt as Glam Bride of Frankenstein. It didn't photograph as well, but there's some deep red Angelina sparkle in there along with the black and white wool and red mohair locks.

On the bobbins are singles of some of the fiber I dyed. The mini skein of 2-ply is from my first attempt at batt making. I think it looks rather denim-like.