In which I attend Shepherd's Harvest Festival

What a fabulous weekend we had at the Shepherd's Harvest Fiber Festival My 8-9th!  The weather was cold, especially Saturday, as it usually is, but Sunday the sun came out and everyone was feeling wonderful!

Here are some pictures of our Northern Lights Handspinner's Guild booth.  Here's our fearless leader Pauline:

Here is my Gone Batty Fibers inventory.  I was pleased to fill an 18 gallon tote with my batts for the show, and I sold quite a few.

I spent most of my time working on the Fiber Sandwich.  This is an event where we collect donations of fiber from the vendors, lay them out on a table in layers, like a big lasagna, and then split off 4 oz chunks for volunteer spinners to spin.  We then auction off the finished skeins to benefit the Heifer Project.  It is a great cause, and we love our donors and volunteer spinners, as well as the people who bid on the skeins.  Here's the auction in progress:

 
We raised almost $400 this year for Heifer, which is very exciting.

Here's my skein(s).  I spun a single Corriedale ply to ply with it, and make the finished skeins a bit more cohesive.  Others chose to do the same, and it was really fun to see what people did.

Someone spun a novelty yarn that was gorgeous--it was a bestseller.

The Minnesota Knitter's Guild also had a booth, at which I worked on Sunday morning.

I should have more weekends like this--good friends and lots of fiber and fibery activities!