Simply Irresistable: Estes Festival

Completely Satiated. For now. Hopefully for a LONG while. The rest of the week was spent hanging out with Preggo and her family. She's about ready to pop, but will likely be late (like her first). On Friday, I spent the day at the store, during which I noticed I was quite anxious. I was getting excited for the ESTES Wool Festival, which is happening this weekend. Thursday and Friday, classes/workshops were held... and today and tomorrow, the open wool market with vendors galore.

Michelle hosted us over at her house the night before, including Jeni, Zenifer, Lesley, Nachaele, Stacey, and Wanda spent the night knitting, gabbing, and chattering excitedly about our plans for the next day. What did everyone want to buy? Did we have specific patterns in mind to buy for? We strategized and came up with a plan for attack. Which had two simple parts.

EDIT: Amy (formerly of Knit it Yourself fame) joined us for most of the evening as well. It's SO unfortunate for the knit blogging community that she no longer blogs (hint hint) b/c she is one of the most knowledgeable and talented knitters I've ever met. Even though I rationally understand why she is on hiatus, I miss hearing and seeing her amazing projects.

1) Get to Brooks Farm Yarn as fast as we can. Buy whatever we can get our grubby little hands on.

2) Explore and purchase other yarn available at Estes at our leisure.

Jenifer showed us the beautiful and stunning results of her recent obsession with dying yarn. She's been exploring with sock, lace, and worsted weight yarns. I have pics of a few colorways, but those might have to wait. I need to show you all the evidence of my recent gluttony before I chicken out.



Starting from the upper right, we have some BFY limited edition superwash blend. Starting with the upper left corner, we see my 2 skeins of lace weight yarn, from Skaska. Both skeins are 100g, with 1315 yards each.
In the lower left corner, I've got more BFY yarn, Primero, in a beautiful green and blue colorway. Last, in the lower right hand corner, enough Plain & Fancy Sheep and Wool sport weight yarn to make a nice sweater.

Yarn details
Brooks Farm Yarn Limted Edition
Superwash
Wool/Silk/Viscose Blend (60/20/20)
4 oz, 420 yds per skein

Skaska Lace weight
Superlamb
100% wool (i think)
100g, 1315 yds

BFY Primero
100% kid mohair
8 oz, 500 yds

Plain & Fancy Sheep and Wool
variegated (blue, green, cranberry colors)
sport weight
400 yards, 4 1/2 oz skeins

As if that's not enough to feel guilty about, I had also just purchased some of this beautiful yarn, which feels like butter when you knit with it.



Malabrigo worsted weight yarn, in colorways Azul Profundo, Violetas, and Lime Blue (starting at upper left, going clockwise). We won't even get into how much of this yarn I purchased. I will rationalize my apparent lack of anything related to restraint by saying that the yarn was a steal (cheaper than Brown Sheep or Cascade 220!)

This picture seems to say it best