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I <3 the homespun yarn party iv

Posted on March 13, 2011 by Dawn

 

I’m getting plenty excited about the upcoming homespun yarn party.

This year’s is taking place on March 27th, and I am honored to be a part of it once again.  I have been dyeing up a STORM of fiber.  The next 2 weeks will be a frenzy of spinning and making beauty to sell there.  Please come out and visit if you are a fiber aficionado– it’s one of my favorite local events, and a good warm up for the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival coming up in May!

Here are the particulars from the site–

About the Homespun Yarn Party

What: Yarn Party! Check out local yarn vendors, sit and knit, meet new people!

Who: All your favorite local yarn dyers and spinners, plus some extra crafty goodness! And all our knitting/crocheting/spinning friends (you!) of course!!

Where: from 2009-2011: Historic Savage Mill 8600 Foundry Street, Savage, MD 20763 | Just off I-95, plenty of parking! – – check the main page for this year’s date and time

When: Usually the last Sunday in March, 12 PM to 5 PM – check the main page for this year’s date and time

Why: Who needs an excuse to get together and craft?! We wanted to get together and spread some fiber love!

In addition to some great crafty vendors, we also have:

  • free lessons on knitting, crochet, spinning, and maybe more
  • fabulous door prizes to be given away throughout the event
  • weather-permitting, a sit and spin/crochet/knit area out on the deck

And we collect knitted and crocheted items for local charities!

Admission is FREE!

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Fiberazzi

Posted on March 17, 2010 by Dawn

Here is a taste test for you…

Hope to see you Sunday!

Marigold says– “That’s a MESS mama! a pretty mess though….”


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Waterworld!

Posted on March 13, 2010 by Dawn

This time last week, we were discovering that we had a water problem.  A water problem that became increasingly  annoying as the days dragged on.   I took FOUR IKEA bags of dishes away to hand wash one night.

Yep.  It was five days with no water.  Cut into some daily living convenience for sure– and made for some creative cooking and toilet-time in the house.   Erin, best-girl-next-door, saved the day with a call early on to teach us that you could flush the toilet with melted snow from the yard.  :) No school for the kids. Trying to find something half decent to wear to work that won’t be noticed immediately by the up-close room of preschoolers. Barrettes and pirate girl hair.  It was a challenge.

I really appreciate water in my pipes more than I ever knew.  It was a giant water main break. Something like 3 million gallons were lost over 12 hours before the leak was discovered.  There was a great quote over the course–

Baltimore County’s Office of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. “You don’t know how much you like water until you’re affected.”

Yes.

I guess I have to feel really lucky if my biggest complaint was that it was getting in the way of my wool-dyeing time.  But it did.  The water came back, and it is officially SPRING BREAK for my job, so back at it!  I am spinning like a dervish and dyeing up a storm of color in 11th hour preparations for the yarn party next weekend.  I will be posting pictures soon of some of the really nice yarns and fiber blends that have been flowing.  I have been experimenting, and really liking the results.  Next time photographic evidence and a YARN & FIBER GIVEAWAY for the Yarn Party!

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Homespun Yarn Party-palooza and some fibery photos.

Posted on February 23, 2010 by Dawn

It’s that time of year again!!!
I am impatiently awaiting the Homespun Yarn Party–
( click to visit, natch)

Here are the stats, straight from the site–

What: Yarn Party! Check out local yarn vendors, sit and knit, meet new people!

Who: All your favorite local yarn dyers and spinners, plus some extra crafty goodness! And all our knitting/crocheting/spinning friends (you!) of course!!

Where: Historic Savage Mill |8600 Foundry Street, Savage, MD 20763 | Just off I-95, plenty of parking!

When: Sunday, March 21, 2010 – 12 PM to 5 PM

Why: Who needs an excuse to get together and craft?! We wanted to get together and spread some fiber love!

In addition to some great crafty vendors, we’ll also have:

  • free lessons on knitting, crochet, spinning, and maybe more
  • fabulous door prizes to be given away throughout the event
  • weather-permitting, a sit and spin/crochet/knit area out on the deck

And we’ll be collecting knitted and crocheted items for local charities!

Admission is FREE!

I can tell you that this is the most amazing day of fiber fun and community!  I am delighted to be a vendor there again this year.  I will have loads of hand spun and fiber–batts & rovings– to tempt you.  Please come enjoy the day with us!

I also happen to have a few photos in their contest.  Voting is open until this Friday– go vote for your faves, there are some lovelies!!  You can see them on  here.

I’ve got 30 pounds of fiber in my Rumpelstiltskin-world right now.  More news and photos to follow!

xo Dawn

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That Yarn Party.

Posted on March 29, 2009 by Dawn

Doing a little catching up here–

The Homespun Yarn Party was so wonderful.  I still feel sort of high thinking about it.  The space at Savage Mill was awesome;  The party-goers were a raucous and lovely bunch;  AND I got to hang out with my sister Matryoshka all day!

Folks were so friendly and seemed to be having a great time.  There was really good ice cream. :)

Hanging out at the yarn shop, I get to hear a lot of feedback on it from local attendees, and I’d say it was a 2nd year gargantuan-success.  What I most appreciated about it was the spirit of community that filled the whole day.  The volunteers rocked, there were great classes and the overall niceness-and-wonderment of ravelry ran like an electrical current through it all.  I was on crutches with my retarded knee and so didn’t get to shop around– but I saw a lot of nice things come by our booth!  I’d like to thank everyone who stopped by and said hi, and bought yarn/fiber.  It was a really fun day!  I can’t wait for next year!  In the shorter term though– please look for me and my fibery-wares at 2 upcoming events–

Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival YAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!

May 2nd and 3rd

at Cloverhill Yarn’s Indie-fiberpalooza booth

Main exhibition hall D2, D3

The Maryland Faerie Festival

May 16th and 17th

Stay tuned for Surgical Vacation: episode 1– Knee Sculpture

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