Gore Place Sheep Shearing Festival
I saw a sign in town a couple weeks ago. Apparently our town has an annual sheep shearing festival. For some reason, this did not click at first. I was picturing big burly men wrestling sheep to shear and not much else. Until one of my friends pointed out the obvious...sheep shearing festivals are heaven for knitters! There will be spinning demonstrations. And a craft fair. Presumably with handspun, hand dyed yarn. Apparently this whole thing is much more important to attend than I'd originally thought...
(plus, the baby sheep look cute)
Gore Place Sheep Shearing
We saw baby alpaca:
Sheep herding deonstrations:
a shorn llama:
baby goats:
as well as kettle corn, fried dough, militia renactments, miniature horses, a huge crafts fair, bunnies, an oxen demonstration.
This was one of the more upscale crafts fairs I've seen. I was tempted by a lot of things, but the only things that actually made it home were:
A box of fresh fudge and a bag of fresh kettle corn.
A flier from a group who does Yarn Safaris - pay a small fee, and then you can ride on a bus to places like sheep festivals, yarn shops, master classes, retreats, etc. Hang out with knitters, and knit while someone else drives.
Yarn:
purple - from Skeintily Clad Yarns in color "grapedance" in the "SockPerfect" weight. Machine washable, 100% Bluefaced Leicester wool
brown- from Swift River Farm, natural color "shetland silk" enfield yarn. 95% pure Shetland Wool, 5% Bombyx Silk
a pair of luxurious shearling gloves from Shepherd's Flock to keep my fingers warm next winter:
(plus, the baby sheep look cute)
Gore Place Sheep Shearing
We saw baby alpaca:
Sheep herding deonstrations:
a shorn llama:
baby goats:
as well as kettle corn, fried dough, militia renactments, miniature horses, a huge crafts fair, bunnies, an oxen demonstration.
This was one of the more upscale crafts fairs I've seen. I was tempted by a lot of things, but the only things that actually made it home were:
A box of fresh fudge and a bag of fresh kettle corn.
A flier from a group who does Yarn Safaris - pay a small fee, and then you can ride on a bus to places like sheep festivals, yarn shops, master classes, retreats, etc. Hang out with knitters, and knit while someone else drives.
Yarn:
purple - from Skeintily Clad Yarns in color "grapedance" in the "SockPerfect" weight. Machine washable, 100% Bluefaced Leicester wool
brown- from Swift River Farm, natural color "shetland silk" enfield yarn. 95% pure Shetland Wool, 5% Bombyx Silk
a pair of luxurious shearling gloves from Shepherd's Flock to keep my fingers warm next winter:
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posted by Liz at 7:12 PM
1 Comments:
My family was there too -- and also spent some cash at the Shepard's flock booth. Our son got fleece slippers that he adores.
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