NEFF 2014 has come and gone! This year just confirmed my feeling that NEFF is my personal favorite fiber festival. Working the booth for A Hundred Ravens is a pleasure — Kate is a great boss, and it’s easy to sell her gorgeous yarn :). I love talking with customers and helping them find projects and yarn to make them … or yarn, and something to make out of it.

Here’s a quick peek of the booth, in case you missed out on NEFF …

 

Of course I “ran away from home” and did a little shopping too. Here’s my loot for the weekend:

I have projects for everything, except the fiber of course. (That has to turn into yarn before I can decide what to do with it.)  My not-fiber purchase is a beautiful wood yarn bowl from Dan Tracy Designs:

fiber — 8 oz of  pencil roving from Reflections of Roclans and two 4-oz braids of 75/25 BFL/Tussah roving from Play at Life:

Shepherd’s Wool in “berries” to make a Colubrida Wrap:

Good Karma Farm’s 60/40 Wool/Alpaca blend in Crabby Apple and Artichoke to make the world’s biggest Leftie:

Starry Night Minis and dark grey Iachos from A Hundred Ravens to make a Crazy Stripes Tee:

the periwinkle sheep merion aran in Black Walnut to make an Oak Trail hat:

naturally-dyed DK from Heron Crossing Farm in Tansy/Indigo and Calendula/Indigo to make a Pen & Ink cowl:

a stray skein of already-wound Aesir in Starry Night will become an Into Gold hat, eventually (the pattern isn’t quite available yet):

Longmeadow Farm’s worsted-weight merino in a chocolate rainbow colorway to make Etchings:

Last but not least, more Iachos in a custom colorway, dyed by yours truly after a long night of winding minis, destined to be When The Flowers Bloom: