What a wonderful Midwestern weekend!
The weather finally broke south of 90 degrees (F) and the humidity is something that doesn’t make my hair go “frizzzz” as soon as I put my big toe outdoors. Best of all, I got to spend the entire day with a busload of knitters from the Windy City Knitting Guild as they headed for the Michigan Fiber Festival, where I’d made arrangements for a secret rendezvous – but more on that later.
Get on the bus, Gus
7 a.m. – Depart Chicago with coffee, snacks and knitting in hand along with 50 or so other fine ladies for the rural life but 3 hours away. The Monday Night Irregulars commandeered the back row of seats on our luxury coach.
11:00 a.m – As we pull up to the festival gates, we are assured by the signage that violence will not be tolerated. Therefore any tussles over fiber will have to be settled the old fashioned way: rock, paper, scissors.
Rendezvous
Once inside the festival grounds, we wandered through the vendor booths and demonstration barns for hours, connecting at various points with members of our group then splitting off again to explore the unexplored or return to a favored spot.
Most fabulous for me? I met my “cosmic twin”, Susan! We seem to have followed a similar path and thought processes – really clicking through the power of the Internet, so it was deemed a must that we meet and the Michigan Fiber Festival was the serendipitous venue. I just wish that we’d had more time to talk one to one about a whole host of things. That is my only disappointment. Thank you, Susan. I know you didn’t feel so great but so appreciate you sharing part of your day with me!
Susan and me, holding a gifted skein of Aussi Sock “Spanish Fiesta”. Olé!
Were there animals? It wouldn’t be a fiber festival without ’em! Come back tomorrow for more if you have a hankering for sheepy faces. Until then, I’ll leave you with a little Llama Lovin’:
6 p.m. – We leave the land of rolling farms, grazing livestock and apple orchards. Somehow, we ably packed a weekend into one day and we were exhausted. To quote my friend Lisa, “This totally didn’t suck!”
Fabulous day!!
Sounds like a great time! Everyone, the llama especially, looks happy!
What a great trip and fun times to meet up with a friend too. Good for you. The Briar Rose yarn is perfectly lovely too.
What a wonderful trip. That is a great idea- get out of the city, hang out w. knitters and buy one special item (of which I shall quickly check out on their site!) Thanks for sharing 🙂 Terry
Oh I love that sign! That really had me laughing. How great that you got to connect with Susan, if only for a short while. It looks like you had a really great time.
nice pictures. it looks like you had a great time. what else did you buy?
It sounds as if you had a great time at the Fiber Festival. I wish I could have gone, too. But we had our vacation already planned when I found out about the WCKG bus. Maybe next year.
That does look like fun. The grin on your face says it all! One day, one year we’ll be in North America and I’ll see a real Fiber Festival. Or two. Or five 🙂
That’s looks like a fabulous time! So glad you had fun…
(((hugs)))
Hmmm, llama. Sorry. 🙂
What a blissful day! Glad to hear that they didn’t allow the knitters to carry firearms…that could get messy!
Love the alpaca! What a face!
That bus full of knitters seemed to make a lot of the vendors’ weekend! You guys came on the best day, as it rained heavily Saturday night and rained and sprinkled most of Sunday. Glad to see you, and I hope you had enough fun to come back next year!
What an adorable picture of you! Glad you had a fun day!
It was the highlight of the day to meet you & the Chicago delegation! Such great people, you make me want to move to the Windy City :o)
Wow! That really seemed like a fun-tastic day! Someday I’d love to do that.
Knitting field trips are great fun — the company of many knitters, time to knit on the bus, and an event to attend. Plus IRL connections on top of it all.
I look forward to the cute animal photos.
I’d been there since Wednesday, so I must have left just before you guys arrived! It was a lovely festival, but it would have been great to see all the Windy City folk.